genderplay en · NOUN
Etymology
From gender + play.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Transgression against traditional gender roles.
Given the pop star's tendency towards self-aestheticization, I think there is an argument to be made for genderplay and its close interconnection with homosociality as a performative strategy.
2009, Stan Hawkins, The British Pop Dandy: Masculinity, Popular Music and Culture, page 85: