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franceslievensPeople keep asking me if my friends are gay, when said friends clearly are straight. I always wonder where they get that impression. I realise that of the 4 men that reside on my friendslist (guys, you're very much in the minority there – better start acting like one) 3 are gay (better double that minority behaviour), but I blame my fandom that generally appeals to women and gay men. I think. If I take my friendslist as a scientifically correct sample of my fandom.
In real life on the other hand I'll have to include myself to actually reach the magical 10% of queers in a community. (Counts on fingers) Okay, it probably isn't that hard to reach that number if I widen the community a bit, but still it isn't because people hang out with me that they're gay. Or: Why do people always say things like that to me? Or: Why, oh, why is it that a man who doesn't enjoy manly things should be a queer?
In real life on the other hand I'll have to include myself to actually reach the magical 10% of queers in a community. (Counts on fingers) Okay, it probably isn't that hard to reach that number if I widen the community a bit, but still it isn't because people hang out with me that they're gay. Or: Why do people always say things like that to me? Or: Why, oh, why is it that a man who doesn't enjoy manly things should be a queer?
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Date: 2005-06-01 01:11 pm (UTC)But I'm a gay magnet!
Oh and I blame the fandom too..
Chani *drinking champagne*
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Date: 2005-06-01 02:40 pm (UTC)I don't know if i'm really a gay magnet. I'm more of a non-manly man magnet.
Are these those famous metrosexuals everyone keeps talking about?
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Date: 2005-06-01 02:41 pm (UTC)Men together are pigs. *grin*
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Date: 2005-06-01 02:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-01 02:48 pm (UTC)Get yer head out if the gutter.
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Date: 2005-06-01 02:50 pm (UTC)*veg*
Chani
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Date: 2005-06-01 02:51 pm (UTC)I bet you hide wips under the bed and own a leather bra...
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Date: 2005-06-01 03:31 pm (UTC)I honestly don't remember; and I don't think it matters either!
*smooch*
;~)
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Date: 2005-06-01 02:11 pm (UTC)Really, I don't think it's a fandom thing, I think it's a livejournal thing. If you look at the BC&S/ASSB there are plenty of straight men, so the show obviously attracts them. (It has Sarah Michelle Gellar in tight clothers, for crying out loud!)
Maybe straight men are just less comfortable writing LJ's?
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Date: 2005-06-01 02:46 pm (UTC)Kashy, most of the male Buffy fans are gay...Straight men are in minority for sure.
Chani
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Date: 2005-06-01 02:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-01 03:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-02 02:22 am (UTC)The remaining ones are mostly straight now...
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Date: 2005-06-01 02:47 pm (UTC)There are straight guys on the BC&S, but there are definately more gays than the usual 10%. Or they're more outspoken. *g*
And the straight guys are mostly taken...
Maybe I should lure my straight, not-into-manly-things friends over to the "dark side" of LJ writing...
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Date: 2005-06-01 03:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-02 02:36 am (UTC)BTW you're right about the NB but I disagree about the C&S, most were gay when the show was still on. It's something that I noticed immediatly when I started posting over there. Not that I minded of course, I didn't care of the posters' sexuality (it's so American to label people as this or that), I only cared about what they said about the show.
I don't think it's only a matter of that fandom. I think it's simply that series viewers are mostly women and gay men.
PS: *you* went after me on the NB, but as you said, it doesn't matter. *smooch*
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Date: 2005-06-02 09:54 pm (UTC)*smoochback*
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Date: 2005-06-03 02:20 am (UTC)