Could also be the fact that Kaylee is the impossible combination of all the best qualities of a girl, without any girly interests.
What about that one episode where she got all gussied up for that ball and Mal got in a swordfight? Because I don't know about you, but wearing big poofy dresses isn't quite gender neutral.
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in b4 "speak for yourself"
What about the part where she starts into the party by fucking
decimating the h'ordeurves and talking to a gaggle of dudes about aligning hypo-spanners 'n such? Engine talk? Hardly ladylike!
That she can pull of such a comically poofy dress with such... such majesty is yet another Best Quality Of A Girl. Cartalk being about as far away from girly interests like... frigging... like....
moisturizers and shit, as one can get!
Does Inara give off an air of "out of every mortal human's league" or what?
For me at least, it's the way she seems downright incapable of having fun. I get the feeling a night with Inara is a night of formal, polite, fully-dressed 17th-century aristocrisex.