A term that people who fall under the transgender umbrella or label use when they feel envious of someone's appearance. Usually, how they present (masculine, feminine, androgynous.) The reason why some transgender people may feel gender envy for something ambiguous or even somebody is like stated before, how it may be presented to them and/or other people.
Please don't bash people who feel gender envy towards certain things or people simply because you don't understand the feeling yourself.
Please don't bash people who feel gender envy towards certain things or people simply because you don't understand the feeling yourself.
Person 1: I don't get how you can feel gender envy cause of clothing?
Person 2: I just think it looks androgynous, and I wish I could seem androgynous too.
Person 2: I just think it looks androgynous, and I wish I could seem androgynous too.
by tropicalskies June 8, 2022
a feeling of envy for how someone else presents/expresses their gender identity. this term is primarily one used by trans people who have envy of the presentation of same-gendered cis people.
Tommy(FTM): I have such strong gender envy for Keanu Reeves
Lyla(MTF): Understandable. Natasha Lyonne causes me extreme gender envy.
Carly(Cis): Fair! I experience gender envy whenever I see Zendaya.
Lyla(MTF): Understandable. Natasha Lyonne causes me extreme gender envy.
Carly(Cis): Fair! I experience gender envy whenever I see Zendaya.
by ethereals December 30, 2021
wishing u had the appearance or self expression of usually a particular person of the opposite gender
i have gender envy for pete wentz
by myspace2007 December 7, 2020
by editorjeff July 6, 2010
by kteegan March 19, 2011
Desk envy: A new employee notices the strikingly visible and well-proportioned desk of a manager or senior executive immediately recognising it as the superior counterpart of his or her own little desk and from then on he or she is subject to desk envy. They have seen it, knowing that they do not have it, and want it.
Symptoms:
In desk-dominated organizations, patients displaying the symptoms of desk envy express a wish to take possession of a larger desk at any cost. Management within these organizations have learned to use this uncontrollable urge for a large desk as a motivational tool and have started introducing a variety of desk sizes within the office, while keeping the largest desks for themselves. To paraphrase Jean Cournot the thing about which there is most consensus in this world, much more than the notion of common sense, is the difference between desk sizes. Recent research has empirically shown that emphasizing the difference in desk size can become fatal to an organization.
Treatment: The cure is very simple by keeping all the desks the same size the organization will avoid desk envy. Care however should be taken not to make the desks too small as this might lead to a desk inferiority complex. Patients who suffer from a desk inferiority complex might catch, while visiting other companies, office envy.
Symptoms:
In desk-dominated organizations, patients displaying the symptoms of desk envy express a wish to take possession of a larger desk at any cost. Management within these organizations have learned to use this uncontrollable urge for a large desk as a motivational tool and have started introducing a variety of desk sizes within the office, while keeping the largest desks for themselves. To paraphrase Jean Cournot the thing about which there is most consensus in this world, much more than the notion of common sense, is the difference between desk sizes. Recent research has empirically shown that emphasizing the difference in desk size can become fatal to an organization.
Treatment: The cure is very simple by keeping all the desks the same size the organization will avoid desk envy. Care however should be taken not to make the desks too small as this might lead to a desk inferiority complex. Patients who suffer from a desk inferiority complex might catch, while visiting other companies, office envy.
Our company president suffered terribly from desk envy, he always wanted to have the largest desk in the organization. When he retired his desk filled the whole room so he had to move in and out of his room through the window.
by WorkVitamins March 13, 2008
Sudden, intense longing and regret derived from watching a particularly appetizing dish being delivered to a nearby table, and realizing that one has made an inferior menu selection.
Hank was eagerly anticipating his scallops when the waiter brought the stuffed pork chops to the man at the table next to him. Unable to avert his gaze, Hank began to feel the anguish of dish envy.
by MrMOSCRU September 8, 2009