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Jun. 18th, 2005
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Jun. 18th, 2005 05:54 pmGay Vague vs. Metrosexuality
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/19/fashion/sundaystyles/19GAYDAR.html
Amusing and interesting, but has the NYTimes really just clued into the fact that people say "Chelsea Boy" as a pejroative term? I think that's been being said with a nasty edge for at least five years now.
And is this article only about men because of the shopping angle as approach to gaydar? Or because queer women are too unfashionable to even think of? It's an easier article to write about men, but how about the article where it's "no one gives a damn anymore." Also the things they mention as "straight men stil can't get away with this" made me laugh, because they are so Australia, and straight men can and do get away with it there.
The article also has this random phrase about gay and straight men expressing masculinity different in the bedroom. Which made me think that I don't particularly express my feminity differently whether I'm sleeping with a man or a woman. Of course, I'm really not even thinking about expressing my feminity at all in that context, because like... my god, the brain does actually shut off sometimes. Just... that phrase struck me as so weird. I mean women don't say to themselves, "oh, let me show you what a girl I am by how I screw you and who you are", at least, I hope they don't. When a guy is screwing whoever his partner is, is he really consciously thinking about how this is an expression of his masculinity? No, he's thinking, "hey, my dick is hard. You're hot. Cool." Or, if one is lucky, I suppose, something more eloquent.
okay, this rant is getting more and more surreal.
As an aside, anyone notice that Queer Eye used to be about freaking out the straight people with the gay guys, but now it's abotu freaking out the gay guys with the straight people?
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/19/fashion/sundaystyles/19GAYDAR.html
Amusing and interesting, but has the NYTimes really just clued into the fact that people say "Chelsea Boy" as a pejroative term? I think that's been being said with a nasty edge for at least five years now.
And is this article only about men because of the shopping angle as approach to gaydar? Or because queer women are too unfashionable to even think of? It's an easier article to write about men, but how about the article where it's "no one gives a damn anymore." Also the things they mention as "straight men stil can't get away with this" made me laugh, because they are so Australia, and straight men can and do get away with it there.
The article also has this random phrase about gay and straight men expressing masculinity different in the bedroom. Which made me think that I don't particularly express my feminity differently whether I'm sleeping with a man or a woman. Of course, I'm really not even thinking about expressing my feminity at all in that context, because like... my god, the brain does actually shut off sometimes. Just... that phrase struck me as so weird. I mean women don't say to themselves, "oh, let me show you what a girl I am by how I screw you and who you are", at least, I hope they don't. When a guy is screwing whoever his partner is, is he really consciously thinking about how this is an expression of his masculinity? No, he's thinking, "hey, my dick is hard. You're hot. Cool." Or, if one is lucky, I suppose, something more eloquent.
okay, this rant is getting more and more surreal.
As an aside, anyone notice that Queer Eye used to be about freaking out the straight people with the gay guys, but now it's abotu freaking out the gay guys with the straight people?