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"of the female persuasion" - is that a normal turn of phrase?
It makes it sound like gender is fluid (like "she convinced herself she's a girl and there's nothing to be done about it"), which I absolutely love, especially considering it's the mid 19th century...
It looks like somebody asked about this phrase on the English StackExchange.
https://english.stackexchange.com/q/394762
They didn't have the phrase 'Big tiddy goth girls' back then.
he means women are fem twinks