Are denigrated as looking like “a drag queen” (which they often are) or as “hard” or other ways of saying “unfeminine” it’s essentially about delegitimizing working class women’s status as women and thus invalidating their feminine performance. To perform working class femininity is weird and paradoxical because it’s opposed to the construction of “true femininity” (soft, delicate, passive, subtle bourgeois femininity). Like true femininity as it is constructed is distinctly opposed to looking like a barbie doll, bourgeois femininity is considered natural and real, whereas working class women are considered to be only masquerading as feminine, and they are seen either as mindless objects, “only an appearance” without any true femininity (or anything else) behind it, or as pretenders to femininity, non-women to whom it does not naturally come.
The hyperfeminine appearing hypersexual “uncultured” non-woman is often contrasted with the refined, virtuous, pure “true woman”. Bourgeois men are culturally chastised for marrying the “bit o’ fluff bimbo” but the same stereotype is used as a boogey man to keep bourgeois women invested in pleasing their men
Thoughts From The Peacock Angel 