Originally Posted by
Brainsuker
I think that how the MC in Wuxia novels can't recognize a woman with a man suit is actually believe-able. The reason why we can recognize them easily is because : 1> they wear make-up, which is natural as they're just actress who play in a show. 2> We know the woman actress who wear the man suit. 3> the suit, even when it looks like a man suit, but still has a feminism feel on them.
But in reality, it's harder to recognize a woman when they really wear a man suit. Specially when they don't wear make-up, has a man hair style, and wear man jacket and man jean. They will be look like a man. Specially when they have a tomboy face / manly face. Not a cute one.
And, even in the ancient time, there are also men with feminism behavior. So how could they recognize that guy as a woman if they look like a pretty boy with feminism behavior alone?