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The new Sissy Boys on screen: Glee, High School Musical, Project Runway and more
Aloysius J. Gleek:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on June 14, 2010, 12:27:11 pm ---I'm Team Edward, but Taylor does have great teeth.
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I think the typographic punctuation here should read:
I'm Team Edward, but Taylor does have great....teeth.
:D ;D :laugh:
milomorris:
--- Quote from: jmmgallagher on June 14, 2010, 01:37:28 am ---Is it finally okay to be a 13-year-old sissy?
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Only on TV.
--- Quote from: jmmgallagher on June 14, 2010, 01:37:28 am ---But it seems that, in our world of niche-entertainment marketing, gay boys are becoming a viable demographic, up there with tween girls and security moms.
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Notice the author's bias. He compares the twinkle demographic to other female demographic segments as opposed to other male demographic segments. That in itself is quite telling.
--- Quote from: jmmgallagher on June 14, 2010, 01:37:28 am ---Call them Twinkles: preteen boys who may not know they are gay yet, or may not want to say they are gay yet, but who have a gleam in their eye and a definite sensibility.
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OK. Now when I have referred to a gay sensibility in the past, I was told by members here that there is no such thing. So which is it??
--- Quote from: jmmgallagher on June 14, 2010, 01:37:28 am ---Twinkles proudly prance, unashamedly emote, high-kick, jazz-hand, belt out “Paparazzi” with piano — everything a gay kid used to do in his bedroom with the door shut.
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What...straight kids never do this??
--- Quote from: jmmgallagher on June 14, 2010, 01:37:28 am ---Maybe the most significant sign of the times is piano-playing sixth grader Greyson Chance, who belted out Lady Gaga’s “Paparazzi” at his high-school talent show and got a record deal a month later. (I’m not saying he is gay either — but he sure is twinkly.)
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The author does not indeed know the sexual orientation of Greyson Chance. But he does not make any room for the possibility that a straight kid can exhibit the personality traits to which he refers.
--- Quote from: jmmgallagher on June 14, 2010, 01:37:28 am ---"In the last year or so, we’re seeing a proliferation of merchandise targeting young men — clothing and also things like skincare, lotion, and hair products aimed at 12- and 13-year-old boys. We’re also seeing young boys buying things that cross traditional gender lines."
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If Mike ALbo is trying to make the case that there are more sexual minorities among today's 12-13 year olds than in past generations, he's correct...numerically at least. Marketers have estimated the Millennials' population at 83 million which is significantly larger than any generation currently living. So with homosexuals comprising about 4% of the population, the number of Millennial gays would be about 3.3 million. The largest generation would naturally produce the largest number of sexual minorities.
Merchandisers are also seeing the continued--if not increased--trend in metrosexuals, which is a stylistic phenomenon rather than an actual sexual orientation.
As Brad Paisley (who I'm seeing this weekend!!!) puts it:
These days there's dudes getting facials
Manicured, waxed and botoxed
With deep spray-on tans and creamy lotiony hands
You can't grip a tacklebox
With all of these men lining up to get neutered
It's hip now to be feminized
I don't highlight my hair
I've still got a pair
Yeah honey, I'm still a guy
Oh my eyebrows ain't plucked
There's a gun in my truck
Oh thank God, I'm still a guy
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: jmmgallagher on June 14, 2010, 01:02:45 pm ---I think the typographic punctuation here should read:
I'm Team Edward, but Taylor does have great....teeth.
:D ;D
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:laugh: :laugh:
--- Quote from: milomorris on June 14, 2010, 01:05:06 pm ---Only on TV.
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I think the writer makes an excellent case that greater acceptability on TV reflects a real change in popular attitudes and the culture at large.
milomorris:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on June 14, 2010, 01:10:07 pm ---I think the writer makes an excellent case that greater acceptability on TV reflects a real change in popular attitudes and the culture at large.
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Change?? Hardly. There have been sissies on TV for quite some time now. That's old. If you want an example of real change, look at the number of masculine, non-stereotypical homosexuals on TV. That's new.
Aloysius J. Gleek:
--- Quote from: milomorris on June 14, 2010, 01:05:06 pm ---Only on TV.
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Happily, no. At least in New York, all five boroughs (and nearly all neighborhoods) are now pretty much Sissy-tolerant. I've been watching it over the last few years, with pleased wonderment. And who did it? The kids themselves, everywhere, in restaurants and shops, as waitstaff and shop assistants, as part of the colorful scene of the everyday mondain(e) they have been polite, brave ambassadors of themselves to Mainstream Folk.
I love it.
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