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Originally posted by IcarusIsFlying
Jesus Christ why can't a boy be feminine? Calm down
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There is absolutely nothing in my post suggesting that I think a boy can't or shouldn't be feminine. The actual question I'm posing is - why can't a boy be feminine without being a walking advocate for ballroom culture? Americans' (including gay Americans) views on what it actually means to be feminine are already so skewed and things like this are not helping.
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Originally posted by Reza
are you serious? only the GAYEST of little boys played with Barbies. (Like Me ) why are you so offended by the truth?
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Because "the truth" unbeknownst to you is that the term GAY refers to a subculture created by white homosexual men, and is not interchangeable with homosexual
or feminine. Most feminine boys aren't emulating a drag show 24/7. What you're calling feminine is more accurately described as "camp";
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"Campness" is adopting certain tastes, mannerisms or postures that are considered as over-the-top by the majority. It is a form of aesthetic in which something has appeal because of its bad taste or ironic value. According to Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language camp is "banality, artifice, mediocrity, or ostentation so extreme as to have perversely sophisticated appeal."
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The obnoxious, peacocking flamboyance of gay “campness" is actually antithetical to pretty much every culture’s concept of femininity... So if we're to place it within the framework of gender, it could just as well be defined as an alternate (and much less socially acceptable) presentation of masculinity.
At best, it could be taken as a misappropriation and perversion of femininity by attention-seeking males - but that’s only after you concede to the culture’s misidentification of campness as femininity.