The tth behd Twter’s favore stereotype about gay men, as explaed by GQ ntributor Louis Stapl.
Contents:
- TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE THE CROWD ROOM DEFEND BY FANS
- SCIENTISTS MAY HAVE FALLY UNLOCKED PUZZLE OF WHY PEOPLE ARE GAY
- I FOUGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS — BUT TRANS ACTIVISTS HAVE STROYED THE MEANG OF PRI
- WHY DO GAY MEN WALK SO FAST?
- GAY STEREOTYP: ARE THEY TE?
- 15 STEREOTYP THAT LIM OUR PERCEPTNS OF GAY MEN
- ‘IS WEIRD FOR A GAY MAN TO HANG WH STRAIGHT WOMEN?’
- WHAT MEANS TO ‘SOUND GAY’
TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE THE CROWD ROOM DEFEND BY FANS
Theory: Lbians get om their fathers, gay men om their mothers. * gay people are weird *
Fans of Brish actor Tom Holland have e to his fense after some social media ers were seemgly upset that the latt episo of his Apple TV+ seri The Crowd Room featured gay the scene, Holland’s character go to a club wh heavy black eyeler and all black.
SCIENTISTS MAY HAVE FALLY UNLOCKED PUZZLE OF WHY PEOPLE ARE GAY
* gay people are weird *
”A lot of other ers, however, seemed very nfed over the backlash, pecially sce Spir-Man actors Toby Maguire and Andrew Garfield have also played gay person wrote, “Watchg agile cishet men have breakdowns over the reason Tom Holland is trendg is sweet we to me. ”“The fact that a sgle scene on an Apple Pl show featurg Tom Holland has brought out so much homophobia om the stupist people is... A group of scientists suggted Tuday that homosexuals get that tra om their oppose-sex parents: A lbian will almost always get the tra om her father, while a gay man will get the tra om his heredary lk of homosexualy has long been tablished, but scientists knew was not a strictly geic lk, bee there are many pairs of intil tws who have differg sexuali.
Scientists om the Natnal Instute for Mathematil and Blogil Synthis say homosexualy seems to have an epigeic, not a geic thought to have some sort of heredary lk, a group of scientists suggted Tuday that homosexualy is lked to epi-marks — extra layers of rmatn that ntrol how certa gen are exprsed.
In homosexuals, the epi-marks aren't erased — they're passed om father-to-dghter or mother-to-son, explas William Rice, an evolutnary blogist at the Universy of California Santa Barbara and lead thor of the study. "There is pellg evince that epi-marks ntribute to both the siary and dissiary of fay members, and n therefore feasibly ntribute to the observed faial herance of homosexualy and s low nrdance between [intil] tws, " Rice and his team created a mathematil mol that explas why homosexualy is passed through epi-marks, not geics.
I FOUGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS — BUT TRANS ACTIVISTS HAVE STROYED THE MEANG OF PRI
Evolutnarily speakg, if homosexualy was solely a geic tra, scientists would expect the tra to eventually disappear bee homosexuals wouldn't be expected to reproduce. But bee the epi-marks provi an evolutnary advantage for the parents of homosexuals: They protect fathers of homosexuals om unrexposure to ttosterone and mothers of homosexuals om overexposure to ttosterone while they are gtatn. "The epi-marks protect fathers and mothers om excs or unrexposure to ttosterone — when they rry over to oppose-sex offsprg, n e the masculizatn of femal or the femizatn of mal, " Rice says, which n lead to a child beg gay.
WHY DO GAY MEN WALK SO FAST?
Rice not that the markers are "highly variable" and that only strong epi-marks will rult a homosexual scientists have long spected some sort of geic lk, Rice says studi attemptg to expla why people are gay have been few and far between.
" Homosexual behavr has been observed black swans, pengus, sheep, and other animals, he 's mol still needs to be tted on real-life parent-offsprg pairs, but he says this epigeic lk mak more sense than any other explanatn, and that his team has mapped out a way for other scientists to tt their work. The sponsorships were lculated acts, predited on the termatn the pani volved would w more gay ctomers than lose anti-gay ctomers.
It’s about the whole “LGBTQI+” crowd — a “muny” most gays never asked to jo and whose guidg iology mak most of scratch our heads nfn. Ined, we’re the odd posn of seeg what ed to be our movement -opted by activists whose wacky theori about the nature of genr renr such labels as male and female, gay and straight, utterly meangls. Why, then, are major firms — the kd that, years ago, were reluctant to dip their to too early to the still-chilly waters of the gay-rights movement — phg this creepy new stuff so eagerly?
GAY STEREOTYP: ARE THEY TE?
And they learned ’s ol to be “queer” — which has nothg to do wh beg gay but means, rather, that one’s inty is, some way, tensn wh mastream norms. Trans, queer, woke: It’s all part of the same iologil grab bag, along wh the weird new termatn to expose kids to drag queens (a ty subset of gay people who have no more bs practicg their craft ont of mors than hookers or morticians).
But ’s beg phed relentlsly by groups like Human Rights Campaign (a gay-rights anizatn turned avid promoter of transgenrism) and, as printial hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy has noted, by giant vtment bankers like BlackRock and Vanguard Group that, for whatever reason, are voutly mted to the woke agenda. “I go at my own speed so that when the real thg , I’m ready.”[RELATED: "36 Fetish Every Gay Man Should Know"]Our hop were soon met.
15 STEREOTYP THAT LIM OUR PERCEPTNS OF GAY MEN
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To fd out what else was gay, I looked to popular-culture, where I saw gay men mostly adherg to a fairly one-dimensnal set of stereotyp: fashnable, wty, effemate. Yet today’s gay men aren’t as reliant on reprentatns crafted by others, wh social media helpg to mocratize storytellg by providg a platform for people to share their experienc.
Both found the accuracy of the new trop difficult to prove, but explored their plex and often ntradictory that sense, the new(ish) stereotype that “gay men walk fast” is no different. On Twter, one person wr: “Straight people, look behd you, chanc are there's a gay person tryg to get past bee you're movg at an extremely glacial pace. ” Others joke that gays n halve the journey time timate on most travel apps, or suggt that gay men walk fast “to flee the straights” bee “they learned to walk to the beat of ‘Womanizer’ by Brney Spears.
‘IS WEIRD FOR A GAY MAN TO HANG WH STRAIGHT WOMEN?’
To create “gay walkg lan” bee gay men supposedly walk so a fast walker, I’ve fely been there: that moment when you’re walkg through a public place, listeng to “Jump” by Madonna, and the (prumably heterosexual) public n’t seen to hurry up and get out of your way. But beyond my personal experience, and the admtedly pretty lazy humor of “gays walk fast” jok, is there any tth to the stereotype?
Gay men the Uned Kgdom, for example, are 30% ls likely to own a r when pared to the average populatn, ditg that they’re more acctomed to walkg.
WHAT MEANS TO ‘SOUND GAY’
“If gay men feel self-nsc or fear attack, they uld walk quickly to get away om perceived risks orr to feel safe aga, ” she explas. “I lived Sydney for 20 years and there were a lot of nfint walkers Oxford Street, one of Sydney's gay areas, as this was a ‘safe’ area for people.
Psychologist Ian MacRae agre that walkg speed and style n be affected by eher posive or negative emotns, but also says that gay men are statistilly predisposed to walkg fast. ”MacRae tells me that walkg fast might be a method for gay men to give a “visual cue” of their physil fns and attractivens, and that there’s a genred element to how we perceive sexualy that may fluence walkg speed.
”Regardls of whether gay men really do walk fast, there are psychologil reasons why many of want to embrace the ia that we do. I often worry that fdg some of the newer gay trop funny –mostly, if I’m hont, bee many of them apply to me– mak me sufferably self-absorbed. ”Benno Gammerl, a lecturer on Goldsmhs Universy’s MA Queer History London, thks that “gay’s walk fast” is rooted stereotyp of urban gay life.