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Whats the story with it. I know not all gay men are camp but most who I have met seem to be. Always trying to be flamboynat etc and make a point that they are gay. Its stereotyping. I dont make a point of me being straight etc. It cant be a genetic thing only because it sounds ridiculous and evolutionary unbenificial
i dont get it myself either doozer. I am attracted to guys and not the slightest bit camp. I honestly find these guys quite irritating. If there is a gay character in a tv show you can bet your last cent he will be a wimpy, passive sissy. Of all the stereotypes out there this one does get on my nerves the most.
i dont get it myself either doozer. I am attracted to guys and not the slightest bit camp. I honestly find these guys quite irritating. If there is a gay character in a tv show you can bet your last cent he will be a wimpy, passive sissy. Of all the stereotypes out there this one does get on my nerves the most.
Thanks Rayden. I have nothing against gays etc, but this campness drives me mad. It has to be put on. Is it that they are trying to me more female like or is it just a over generalised proclamation as to how gay they are (a kind of proud to be gay) Now I have friends who are gay and you would never know it. Normal guys and girls that just happen to be gay, then there are the onbes who are soooooooooooo gay (camp) and it does annoy me
i would like to think they arent putting it on. Maybe its habit.
This is what i would call camp.
http://aftercheese.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/batman-and-robin-tv.jpg
It is someone basically with a flamboyant personality,that would be my understanding of it.
Whats the story with it. I know not all gay men are camp but most who I have met seem to be. Always trying to be flamboynat etc and make a point that they are gay. Its stereotyping. I dont make a point of me being straight etc. It cant be a genetic thing only because it sounds ridiculous and evolutionary unbenificial
So straight men don't walk around forcing their straightness on everyone?
Football hooligans come to mind, as well as Friday/Saturday night binge drinkers who have made it almost impossible for decent people to walk the streets when they dominate them (the streets) with their great interpretation of neanderthal man!
GL ;)
So straight men don't walk around forcing their straightness on everyone?
Football hooligans come to mind, as well as Friday/Saturday night binge drinkers who have made it almost impossible for decent people to walk the streets when they dominate them (the streets) with their great interpretation of neanderthal man!
GL ;)
A come on now, your confusing straightness with being a yob.
thehighwayman
13-07-10, 18:55
You get the likes of Graham Noron, Brian Dowling and Julian Clary who are over the top with such sissy voices. Gay people I've met speak normal and don't go over the top like that. What about the other way around is there such a thing as a straight guy been camp? I know some guys who are supposedly straight but if you didn't know you would swear they were gay as they behave in the stereotypical gay campness.
A come on now, your confusing straightness with being a yob.
Isn't that straight men emphasising their straightness? When they are by themselves in the street they are introverts, put them together with some alcohol and they turn in to neanderthals. That to me is forcing their straightness on others...
GL
Not all straight men but alcohol normally plays a part. The camps dont need alcohol which makes me wonder are they putting it on to emphasise their gayness
Some are some aren't. The most important thing, is if they are bitchy or not!
GL :)
Can I resurrect this thread to also ask why many gay men are so camp? After all, you didn't see Alexander the Great mincing around in front of his army flopping in his wrist in the direction of the enemy - no, he kicked ass all over the goddam world as well as fucking it. Surely if you're a man, you're a man, whether or not you're attracted to women or not?
Anyway, I have mentioned that there's a gay guy in my extended family. I was out drinking with him one night and he took me to a gay night in some nightclub (for the craic, fnar fnar). Some camp guy tried to chat me up while I was out smoking in the beer garden, and I told him I was straight. He said "How do you know until you've tried it?" I told him "The same way you know you're gay, I know I'm straight", but I wasn't happy with that answer - I found myself getting angry at his girlie voice and feminine mannerisms, even though I like to think I'm quite liberal.
Incidentally, the bouncers were pricks.
Can I resurrect this thread to also ask why many gay men are so camp? After all, you didn't see Alexander the Great mincing around in front of his army flopping in his wrist in the direction of the enemy - no, he kicked ass all over the goddam world as well as fucking it. Surely if you're a man, you're a man, whether or not you're attracted to women or not?
Anyway, I have mentioned that there's a gay guy in my extended family. I was out drinking with him one night and he took me to a gay night in some nightclub (for the craic, fnar fnar). Some camp guy tried to chat me up while I was out smoking in the beer garden, and I told him I was straight. He said "How do you know until you've tried it?" I told him "The same way you know you're gay, I know I'm straight", but I wasn't happy with that answer - I found myself getting angry at his girlie voice and feminine mannerisms, even though I like to think I'm quite liberal.
Incidentally, the bouncers were pricks.
Why would you get annoyed when you know who you are? unless he did not take No for an answer, which would be annoying regardless of there sex M/F..
Do you get annoyed @ (masculine) heavy drinking females on a night out?
BTW, how do you know that Alex the great was not camp? camp men can be quite sadistic you know ;)
GL ;) lol
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I think a lot of the examples people are giving here of TV celebs are not the best example as I imagine a lot it is an act to advertise themselves for TV, I’d imagine these same guys off screen would be as straight acting as most gay guys.
Dr Christian Jessen and Gareth Thomas aren’t exactly two guys I’d say act camp.
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