Where did the “gays are feminine and lesbians are masculine” stereotype come from?
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I’m bisexual, so I *may* have some insight to this question that others don’t.
I’m also out to basically anyone who will listen, in spite of how I’m married to a woman with two kids of mine. This is relevant because… Well you’ll see in a second.
It’s basically impossible to be in the closet when it’s fucking obvious that you’re different and strange. Some people just can’t hold in their queerness (in any form, not just sexuality) come hell or high water, and that’s where those stereotypes come from. The rest of us can keep our weirdness to ourselves and only let it out for certain company.
This is part of the reason why I’m out, in spite of the fact that I can 100% disappear into my seemingly heterosexual lifestyle. People need to see that “normal people” are queer, or they’ll just accept the stereotypes and the scapegoating. They’ll be taught to hate the different by people who can’t be good leaders, who can’t actually solve people’s problems. That’s what scapegoats are *for*.
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