2012-10-13, 12:12 PM
Yes, to all of your questions.
It's hard for me to not say more, though, as I deeply despise these topics, because they downplay individual sexuality and what it means to be LGBT, but understand their point. As in, a "straight-acting gay" is theoretically stupid, because it implies that gays shouldn't be themselves and are abnormal for not representing the mannerisms socially construed towards the gender binary, but realistically it's one way to describe a mannerism type.
I think I just hate describing it as "straight-acting gays" - I'd much prefer simply "masculine" or "effeminate"
It's hard for me to not say more, though, as I deeply despise these topics, because they downplay individual sexuality and what it means to be LGBT, but understand their point. As in, a "straight-acting gay" is theoretically stupid, because it implies that gays shouldn't be themselves and are abnormal for not representing the mannerisms socially construed towards the gender binary, but realistically it's one way to describe a mannerism type.
I think I just hate describing it as "straight-acting gays" - I'd much prefer simply "masculine" or "effeminate"