For a GF to make out with another girl...

[archibaldcrane]

Still waiting for you to pick out my mannerisms

No one said you had any - unless you consider having a victim complex a gay mannerism, because that's exactly what you're doing here.

[Milkster]

[bechyni]

No one said you had any - unless you consider having a victim complex a gay mannerism, because that's exactly what you're doing here.

In a study of one person the proof would that be 100% of subjects did not present gay mannerisms. Prove me wrong.

[archibaldcrane]

You're bad and you should feel bad.

[bechyni]

What do you do with bad boys?

[Ansems]

I think the only thing Ksandra is useful for is in a post apocalyptic world where we are all cannibals, food for weeks yo.

[Julian]

Holy shit my head is full of fuck.

I'll just echo everything that Eternity wrote.

edit: Also, my gaydar totally picked up bechyni when he posted his pic. Gaydars are totally real and 100% effective. Like totally.

[archibaldcrane]

Got a % for me? No one has stepped up other than saying that my estimate is wrong, give it a swing Julian.

[Qalbert]

[Milkster]

Got a % for me? No one has stepped up other than saying that my estimate is wrong, give it a swing Julian.

What did you want an estimate of? And by the same token, you never answered my question of what are gay mannerisms all gay men have in common.

[Julian]

Honestly? Fuck if I know.

There are a lot of gays that fit into the stereotypes, just as there are a lot that don't, and there are also straight people who fit into those stereotypes.

I have a friend who pretty much fits into every single gay stereotype. He loves glee, loves lady gaga, loves the theater, etc. Spoilers: He's straight.

Although, personally, it's been my experience that a good portion (maybe the majority, maybe not, I don't know) don't really fit into those kinds of stereotypes that much, if any, at all. Like Eternity said, everyone is different. You just don't notice the people who don't fit into the stereotype as often because you probably don't even know that they're gay.

[Dimmauk]

I wonder if her vagstache matches her mustache?

[bechyni]

Got a % for me? No one has stepped up other than saying that my estimate is wrong, give it a swing Julian.

Just found this for you.
http://www.gwcdn.com/albums/images/4...095f00519e.jpg

[Kuya]

lol

[Dimmauk]

Just found this for you.
http://www.gwcdn.com/albums/images/4...095f00519e.jpg

LOL

[EternityEnd]

Attempts to label the majority—or even a significant number of gay people—as stereotypical are erroneous and hyperbolic. Indeed, trying to portray members of any large social, ethnic or even religious group as having the same mannerisms, opinions or lifestyles is foolish and disingenuous.

There isn't really a "gay community," just as there isn't a "straight community." Shockingly, individuals who fall under a label of orientation are three-dimensional humans, so diverse in every way that grouping them all together is futile. Most straight people are not alike and don't have the same opinions, talents or traits, and it's the same with gay people. The overwhelming majority of straight people are not manly bodybuilders or socially awkward nerds, just as the majority of gay people aren't flaming queens or bears. They're mostly normal people, the only thing linking them being their exclusive attraction to the same sex. Why that's a difficult concept to grasp is thoroughly beyond me.

You all base your fallacious assumption that the majority of gay people are effeminate on the ones you encounter, but that's the catch 22. The only reason you think the ones you encounter are gay is because of their stereotypical traits. When you meet an average gay person, you assume they're straight, because of their deficit of femininity. The few "normal" gay people that you personally know are inconspicuous—the only reason you're aware they're gay is that they personally imparted that knowledge to you, a chance that a stranger overtly lacks. Therefore, your assumption is not logical.

On the subject of "pride" parades: they're set up by the vocal minority, for the vocal minority, and are attended by the vocal minority, just like any parade. That's what parades are kind of for. To be vocal. I do profess my opinion that pride is a foolish emotion to perpetuate in a civil rights movement, seeing as pride implies superiority. One shouldn't take pride in a trait that they're born with; it should be reserved for achievements.

P.S. More masculine gay people are not "acting straight." They're being themselves. The only thing that being straight denotes is the attraction the the opposite sex—not any physical traits or mannerisms. That's just (un)common sense. Think of all the straight people you know or have encountered: they have no trait which connects them beyond their generalized sexual attraction to the opposite sex. Everything else about them differs greatly.

Tl;dr: Idiots.

Exactly. You live in California—Hollywood, for fuck's sake—the capital of the vocal minority of which we speak, because the "community" there engenders the idea that gay people should act a certain way (though it is not intrinsic). In the rest of the world, however, things are quite different for the majority. California is an outlier.

You're trying to impose California's communal indoctrination on to your perception of the rest of the world. In essence, comparing the traditional quirks focused in a single region on everyone else. It's ludicrous. I would wager, however, that most gay people there are still "normal," you're just falling prey to the exact same fallacious assumption that I outlined in my first post. You assume all of the normal people you meet are straight—by default—erroneously drawing the conclusion that, therefore, they are all straight, and that stereotypically gay people are the majority, because they're the most obvious. That's what a vocal minority is.

The truth of what I present is patently obvious if one but bestirs themselves for one moment to look at the entire world and its history. America, and to a lesser prevalence, Canada and the United Kingdom, are the only countries with any sort of notable effeminate behavior. That's because the media in those countries posits the notion that gay people act effeminately, implicating to gay people growing up that they should conform to that idea in order to gain a sense of community—belonging. This is caused by both decades-old prejudice as well as the media's inherent proclivity to simplify things, rather than inform. It's, in my opinion, a tragic loss of individualism. If you deign to look anywhere else, though—particularly the impoverished regions of the world, with a lack of media—you'll see that people share no such mannerisms. At all. People are inclined to adopt whatever artificialities their culture imposes on the group with whom they identify. Basically, traditional behavior is self-perpetuating. That doesn't make it at all intrinsic.

Your "broad spectrum" of experience is deplorably narrow; if you'd care enough to open your eyes, you might realize.

Just thought I'd quote myself, since I already won the thread.

[Day]

gay

[Rocl]

Just thought I'd quote myself, since I already won the thread.

look at this nigga chest pumpin his paragraphs

[Ksandra]

Just found this for you.
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QUOTING THIS PIE CHART BECAUSE IT IS AMAZING AND I THINK BECHY WILL KILL ME IF I DON'T QUOTE THIS AMAZING PIE CHART.

[Day]

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