Culture and its social norms determines the set of traits, behaviours, and roles that defines masculinity and femininity. Both of which are to be opposite of one another, but at the same time complement each other. You can't take gender and try to redefine it to suit your idealistic principles. It's already been defined by the Association of Societal and Cultural Maintenance (ASCM) and can be visually represented on the scale of gender polarity.
On this scale, we assign masculine the value of +1 , neuter the value of 0 and feminine the value of -1 . Gender polarity exists in order to motivate the two sexes (male and female) to desire one another and to find fullness in their union. The gender polarity does not represent anomalies such as those where one is born an intersex or a gender that does not align with their assigned sex at birth.
Some of these specified attributes include facial features that can be represented visually on a similar polarity scale, as femininity draws closer to masculinity, the eyebrows become bushier, the lips become thinner, the eyes become narrower, the nose widens, the jawline become more defined, etc. This defines what is beautiful in a woman and handsome in a man. Note that ugliness does not exist on this scale. The state of being unattractive is of no benefit to society and as such is an undesirable attribute to either sexes.
Other's include more intangible attributes. Obviously both gender characteristics can consist of positive and negative attributes . For example a positive feminine attribute can be kindness while a negative feminine attribute may be incompetence. A basic summary of these attributes can be represented below.
Naturally some cisgender females and males would find that they tend to exhibit traits that are attributed to the opposite gender. Not to worry, this may comes up from time to time and usually depends on the situation you may find yourself in, but inevitably it would serve you better to suppress those instincts, you fight your nature and thereby inhibit your ability to attract, love and be loved by a man/woman.
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