# "Gal finds success as a male model" - Some amazing photos! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 19, 2013, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gal-finds-success-as-a-male-model-some-amazing-photos/671655 "2013-10-19T16:04:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gal-finds-success-as-a-male-model-some-amazing-photos/671655/21 "2013-10-21T13:39:10Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > That was my reaction too. There are people who still use the word “gal”? I’m surprised by your surprise. Has “gal” been placed on the List of Forbidden Words since I received my last issue? What would would you suggest as the female equivalent of “guy”? ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gal-finds-success-as-a-male-model-some-amazing-photos/671655/22 "2013-10-21T13:47:57Z")
Guy. Gal tends to make people sound patronizing and like they stepped out of a bad western. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gal-finds-success-as-a-male-model-some-amazing-photos/671655/23 "2013-10-21T16:15:23Z")
The actual headline of the linked article is “Gal finds success as a male model”. It’s not **astro** ’s invention. I think she can pass for male much better when viewed from the side. Looking at her straight on it’s obvious that she’s female (although I already knew, so it’s tough to say whether I would’ve figured it out otherwise). ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gal-finds-success-as-a-male-model-some-amazing-photos/671655/24 "2013-10-21T16:45:23Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > Guy. > > Gal tends to make people sound patronizing and like they stepped out of a bad western. So, “Guy finds success as a male model” would have been just as descriptive in this case? ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gal-finds-success-as-a-male-model-some-amazing-photos/671655/25 "2013-10-21T17:08:41Z")
I don’t know why you think a gender-neutral term would be more descriptive than a gendered term and I don’t know why you think I was suggesting guy as a replacement for gal. The headline should read “woman finds success as a male model”. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gal-finds-success-as-a-male-model-some-amazing-photos/671655/26 "2013-10-21T17:25:26Z")
I don’t think I would have looked twice at her if she had been presented as a male model instead of as a female male model. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gal-finds-success-as-a-male-model-some-amazing-photos/671655/27 "2013-10-21T17:36:30Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > I don’t know why you think a gender-neutral term would be more descriptive than a gendered term and I don’t know why you think I was suggesting guy as a replacement for gal. The headline should read “woman finds success as a male model”. Please, let’s not be louts. It’s “womyn.” ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gal-finds-success-as-a-male-model-some-amazing-photos/671655/28 "2013-10-21T18:45:17Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > Is it just me or does she look a bit like **Justin Bieber** - with better cheekbones? I was thinking Leonardo DiCaprio, or that guy on Dancing with the Stars who looks just like Leonardo DiCaprio. > [@CinnamonImp](#): > > “gal”? Really? It’s a tabloid headline. They still use words like “gal,” “hubby,” and “Pippa.” ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gal-finds-success-as-a-male-model-some-amazing-photos/671655/29 "2013-10-21T19:10:32Z")
I recall reading an article a decade ago, no idea where, about how modeling jobs for some male body types are mostly filled by women. That same article also mentioned how small men occasionally get gigs for modeling preteen girls’ clothing. ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gal-finds-success-as-a-male-model-some-amazing-photos/671655/30 "2013-10-21T20:18:24Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > I don’t know why you think I was suggesting guy as a replacement for gal. Maybe this exchange… **Vinyl Turnip** : “What would would you suggest as the female equivalent of “guy”?” **Inner Stickler** : “Guy.” I don’t think a gender neutral term would have been more descriptive… that was my point. Besides… maybe the editor told the headline writer he had to trim two letters so he didn’t have room for woman. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gal-finds-success-as-a-male-model-some-amazing-photos/671655/31 "2013-10-21T20:43:22Z")
> [@Spud](#): > > Maybe this exchange… There’s a difference that’s very clear to me but apparently not to you. I agree that “guy finds success as a male model” does not work but I don’t buy into your false dichotomy that because guy wouldn’t work gal is necessarily called for. ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gal-finds-success-as-a-male-model-some-amazing-photos/671655/32 "2013-10-21T22:11:36Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > There’s a difference that’s very clear to me but apparently not to you. (Scratches head)… Ummm… apparently I do understand, which is why I responded to you that Guy is not a valid replacement for Gal (which you posted was a valid replacement for the female form of guy). > [@](#): > > I agree that “guy finds success as a male model” does not work Good, because that was the entirety of my argument > [@](#): > > but I don’t buy into your false dichotomy that because guy wouldn’t work gal is necessarily called for. I never said as much. Woman would have been a valid replacement for Gal. Guy on the other hand does not work as a replacement in this case (as you stated it would above). I’m not even dipping my toe into the argument about if Gal is a taboo or offensive term. ---
**Author:** ![jellyblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@jellyblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jellyblue)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2013, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gal-finds-success-as-a-male-model-some-amazing-photos/671655/33 "2013-10-22T06:59:32Z")
She just looks like a hot lesbian to me. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gal-finds-success-as-a-male-model-some-amazing-photos/671655/34 "2013-10-23T10:42:11Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > I’m surprised by your surprise. Has “gal” been placed on the List of Forbidden Words since I received my last issue? What would would you suggest as the female equivalent of “guy”? Not forbidden - just old-fashioned. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gal-finds-success-as-a-male-model-some-amazing-photos/671655.md?page=1)