SF looks to crown its most Performative Male

The Performative Male is, essentially, a poseur — a man who appears to have rejected toxic masculinity by creating a certain "soft boy aesthetic," sometimes featuring baggy pants, painted nails and therapy-speak.

• They may try to one-up you in a conversation about feminist readings or mansplain astrology in an attempt to convince you he's a "good guy."
• "It's not that any of these things are necessarily red flags in and of themselves. It's that they're green flags he's performatively planting in an all too transparent attempt to rack up more matches," Kayla Kibbe wrote in a recent Cosmopolitan column.

Get your judge on: Head over to the Painted Ladies Observatory on Steiner Street Friday at 7pm to judge the competition — or join in yourself!

• Contestants will be judged on outfit, feminist literature references per minute, matcha flavor critique expertise and overall vibes.
• A second contest is planned for 2pm Saturday at Dolores Park.