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Re: New poll: sexuality and Lugnet
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 20 Sep 2004 03:11:50 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> Google for "Metrosexual". Not "swishy", but perhaps hitting some of the
> stereotypes (well groomed, fit and trim, with it trendwise, fashionably dressed,
> etc...) that people have (c.f. _Queer Eye for the Straight Guy_ which clearly
> (seems to, I've only seen it once) plays on/with those stereotypes).
Ok, got it. I had come across that term before but didn't class it as "buying
into the gay lifestyle". For one thing, that particular group of behaviours
(well groomed, fit and trim, with it trendwise, fashionably dressed etc) plays
off only one of the several gay stereotypes, never mind the fact that there are
many more "gay lifestyles" out there than the stereotypes cover. Goodness knows
where the people on the Gay Homesteaders mailing list I belong to would fit!
Kevin
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| (...) Yeah, the few gay men that I've been pretty close friends with were all "bears" if I understand the terminology -- not at all swishy. I assumed John meant something like this: I'm straight. I decide to have e.g. anal sex with a man. Now, in (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: New poll: sexuality and Lugnet
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| (...) Google for "Metrosexual". Not "swishy", but perhaps hitting some of the stereotypes (well groomed, fit and trim, with it trendwise, fashionably dressed, etc...) that people have (c.f. _Queer Eye for the Straight Guy_ which clearly (seems to, (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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