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I often get text messages from people who use the twitter-derived slang 「なう」
to mean "now." As in 「電車なう」meaning "(I am on the) train now."

However, these mainly come from women, and one gay dude. Is that just a
coincidence, or does using this term actually have some feminine/effeminate
connotation, like appending わ for emphasis (e.g. 「疲れたわ〜」)?
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does 「なう」have effeminate connotations?
No. It does not have any feminine connotations.
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I would think that girls and gay men might be more likely to use it, because
it is a bit of a cute/silly thing (being a sort of silly borrowing from
English, for some reason written in hiragana rather than katakana).
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