[ SECRET POST #092 ]

[grayout.livejournal.com]

⌈ Secret Post #092 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 61 secrets from Secret Submission Post #014.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, 0 not!secrets, 0 not!fandom.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Sunday, April 8th, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: Here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[ew-younerd.livejournal.com]

Cultural imprinting having to do with an aspect of you that societal stigma and law identify you by is usually hardly your choice.

[grayout.livejournal.com]

Stigma isn't a choice, but responding to that stigma by turning to stereotypes is.

[ew-younerd.livejournal.com]

Listen, this is a lot different then listening to a band and trying to fit in with emo and rock kids. At least, that's what I'm trying to get across.

If you are SOMETHING by definitive nature in society, such as gay or black, and you TRY to NOT be the stereotype attributed to you and FIT IN with people, you are acting "WHITE" or "STRAIGHT" or "NORMAL". there is an automatic stigma that makes you alienated and uncomfortable, so it's only natural for some people to face human imprinting and associate with stereotypes. And that's even a small portion of the gay population.

I hope I'm making myself clear, I don't want to just come off as mad because I'm not.

[grayout.livejournal.com]

I think I get what you mean.

But I still think the point is that it's a conscious choice. You act a stereotype... or you don't. If acting "normal" is conforming, then that's a choice too. And I get that it (associating with stereotypes)'s natural and yeah, people do it.

But I mean, you can still be annoyed by it, right?

[ew-younerd.livejournal.com]

Of, of course you can be annoyed of it. But you're ignorant (by the definition of ignoring actual facts/studies/viewpoints outside of ze monkeysphere) if you think there's somehow this huge difference between fictional gays that a dumb yaoi fangirl imagines in her mind, and real gays. Like the secret maker and the people who agree with the secret were implying they did.

The thing is, you are alienating a trait to be annoyed by that applies to everyone. And yes, it probably applies to you and I, too, whether you're self-aware or I'm self-aware of it or not.

[grayout.livejournal.com]

So then why not stand up and say "This is who I am"? Isn't that what the gay culture promotes, while at the same time pressuring gays to fit in?

[ew-younerd.livejournal.com]

Just as heterocentric culture pressures people to act 'straight', men pressure men to act 'manly', women pressure women to act 'womanly', Christians pressure Christians to act 'Christian', a gay culture will pressure gays to act 'gay'. It is the way of the Force, my child.

[shahni.livejournal.com]

The force will eat everyone. Who said we were on the top of the food chain. DX

[shahni.livejournal.com]

WE MUST FIGHT THIS.

[grayout.livejournal.com]

I was just saying it's possible to resist that force. Both forces, in both directions.

Yeah, at this point I don't even care any more. Gay, straight, whatever.