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A Strange Thing

Started by Princess of Hearts, September 22, 2011, 04:35:34 PM

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Princess of Hearts

A somewhat strange thing happened to me today.   I was waiting in the queue at Waterstones(A bookshop) to pay for my book when I heard the male shop assistant speak to a genetic female customer.   He spoke in a rather swishy camp chatty manner and I experienced a flash of disapproval!   Why did his brief display of effeminacy annoy me?    He was like Conan the Barbarian compared to me so why did I feel a flash of contempt and disapproval do you think?   

P.S. He and the customer were discussing some romance novel and he said to her 'Oh my God trust me, you'll love this book so much you'll be in here tomorrow for her other book. '





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Vincent E.S.

Perhaps it was the juxtaposition of manly/campy; the contrast between the ways he talked (feminine) and the way he looked (Conan the barbarian) was what bothered you. I don't know. I'm just guessing.  :-\

Either that or his voice was just really annoying.  ;D
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JackieOD

I couldn't explain it, but I feel very similarly when I see a man carrying a purse. There's no reason, especially given my dejection of masculinity, but I just can't shake it for some reason.
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RhinoP

Mostly it's because you probably didn't have a sexual attraction to him that overrode any innately biased feelings, but those feelings probably come from a mixture of self-doubt and sociological expectations. In other words, you probably subconsciously hated that this man was being freely feminine on the inside with the type of outer shell you may have been previously self-conscious about. Either that, or you were raised by a family or surrounding that repeatedly told you it was wrong for a masculine looking person to express any type of female or homosexual side. There's absolutely no such thing as a person behaving wrongly unless they do something against the law; any type of negative feelings toward someone else not based on law comes from a psychological place based in past experience or the sense of self.

It's why I hate looking identical to the actor to played Conan on the recent film; people just get plain grossed out and hateful when I act like the woman I know I am, or even if I act a bit gay. People usually cannot separate an appearance from a personality, and when the two contradict, it usually creates anger, hate, disgust, discrimination, laughs, jokes, and all that. To stop this type of discrimination and anger, I underwent two nasal surgeries where the doctors mutilated the structures of my nose against my will, causing it to collapse. And now, I plan on spending $18,000 to correct that feature as well as undergoing brow bone reduction and other treatments. All to make people see me for the woman I am, all to make people automatically accept my personality, not laugh or turn angry at it.

Not to say I'm perfect where discrimination is concerned; I personally think many gay people are plain annoying too. Usually though, it's only because I hate hyper people, because my parents used to yell at me constantly if I ever did anything hyper or upbeat as a child, so I'm always a bit jealous of them. The only time I can ever stand hyper annoying people is if they're sexy in my eyes, then I'll somehow magically put up with them all day long. Like some years back, there was this annoying gay kid in my high school, he had the most annoying voice and camp attitude ever; it was annoying because everyone loved him and not me, just because he was much hotter than me. Ends up I had sex with him like a year later, forgot all about how annoying he was while it was going on!
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Padma

I find that something like this gets triggered sometimes when I'm around people who are obviously (for one reason or another) not being hetero-normal or gender-normal. And I think in my case it's fuelled by fear of being singled out myself for teasing or bullying or rejection. So something in me says "I'm not like them, of course!" Sigh. It makes me sad. But at least I don't act on it in any unpleasant way, I just register it as something to think about later.

And I suppose we're all subjected to a background toxic radiation of phobia all our lives too, and some of it rubs off on us in unexpected ways.
Womandrogyneâ„¢
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mimpi

That stuff winds me up as well although it shouldn't. Same thing when some of the local kids round here start giving it large speaking yardie style. Sounds fake, disrespectful to jamaicans, and at the end of the day it's South London for heaven sake. Over the top camp seems the same, disrespectful towards women.
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