Guest Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 25 minutes ago, moonsago said: I love how we constantly preach how we want to break down gender stereotypes and normalize people wearing and doing whatever they want without feeling like they have to comform... but then, when they do, the gays get mad... it’s almost like ‘okay do it BUT after me ok?’ If you can’t recognize that a straight man in a dress on the cover of a megazine is progress and is going to change so many mentalities about what masculinity means and the freedom it can give to so many people ( yes, straight people ) to stop living under the tight unwritten rules that their own history has created for them, than I am sorry for you and your narrow minded point of view. People don’t realize that when somebody puts somebody else in a box and has certain expectations from them ( straights to gays ), they indirectly put themselves outside that box and are expected to be everything but whats on the inside of it. Which is also unfair because some straight people wish to express themselves with some of the colors that are contained in that box too because it resonates to who they are. But of course our community has to make everything about self opression and unfair treatment without seeing the bigger picture. This helps people too because like it or not, we are all victimes of the same system, a system created when people didn’t know better and now the present polulation has to struggle with the effects and remains of it. Just like how feminism sets both the woman and man free, this conversation should include both the straights and the queers because we are all in pain. Wow Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProfessionalClown 10,647 Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 6 hours ago, Dennis said: I'm sorry but he's not wrong. I'm sick and tired of the media treating queer identity as some fashion trend. When straights do this, it is appropriation, no different than cultural appropriation. He is wrong lmao. He was acting like he Invented the idea and movement when Harry, who throughout his career was known as a straight man, coming out and being a lot more gender bending and saying his sexuality is fluid is really big especially considering he was part of one direction, the biggest boy band in the past 20 years Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
REALITY 77,942 Posted November 6, 2021 Share Posted November 6, 2021 Some of y'all are acting like Billy Porter was talking about Justin Bieber or Ed Sheeran or something. If Justin or Ed started wearing dresses and make-up for nothing but "shock value," then maybe Billy has a point, but he decided to point out Harry Styles specifically. Harry hasn't confirmed his identity (which is completely his right), but it's very clear that he is at the very least, a strooooong LGBTQ ally, if not queer himself. I don't see this as "queer appropriation" at all. As some other people have already mentioned in this thread, let's not act like Billy Porter was the first man to publicly wear dresses, make-up, and "feminine" clothing. Hell, Elton John and David Bowie were doing that since Porter was a kid. Also, @Suspiria put it perfectly: this gatekeeping is awfully counterproductive to what LGBTQ people actually want. The whole point of men wearing "feminine" clothing and make-up is to show people that it's okay for guys to wear those things. At the end of the day, dresses and skirts are just pieces of fabric, and make-up is just product you put on your face. Those are not inherently "feminine" things. Even if Harry isn't queer, he is normalizing the idea that people can dress however the f*ck they want because it ultimately does not matter. 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔪𝔲𝔰𝔦𝔠'𝔰 𝔤𝔬𝔫𝔫𝔞 𝔟𝔯𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔪𝔢 𝔟𝔞𝔠𝔨 𝔣𝔯𝔬𝔪 𝔡𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔥 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cssomeone 1,670 Posted November 6, 2021 Share Posted November 6, 2021 11:59 p.m. : a dress is just a piece of fabric, the meaning we give to it is cultural and anyone should feel comfortable to wear one 00:00 a.m.: a supposedly heterosexual white man is wearing a dress. This is culture appropriation and queer baiting. Arrest him! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante 878 Posted November 6, 2021 Share Posted November 6, 2021 Hardly an apology. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bijobual 31 Posted November 6, 2021 Share Posted November 6, 2021 Billy Porter has an enormous ego for someone who is mainly known for wearing dresses at the opening of an envelope. Bitter attention seeker. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrea B 16,761 Posted November 6, 2021 Share Posted November 6, 2021 His ego is really big Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
enissa11 2,984 Posted November 6, 2021 Share Posted November 6, 2021 he had nothing to apologize for... Mad Architect of Light Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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