GAYLES.TV.- Regarding sexual orientation and gender, stereotypes exist, but what foundation do they have? What is feminine What is mannered? What is masculinity?
We often hear expressions of the type "That's gay, look how he talks", because one of the most widespread homosexual stereotypes is that of the swallowed and acute voice, not to mention the shrieks and certain intonations associated with femininity. But do women really talk like that? Are there guidelines that allow us to recognize by the tone of voice the sexual condition of a person? If so, how do people feel that they fulfill these characteristics in terms of the voice? And since we wear How is a gay man supposed to sound?
These and other questions about homosexual topics and stereotypes are the ones that are David Thorpe in the documentary "Do I sound gay?" in which part of his own personal experience to try to understand how stereotypes arise and how society accepts and perpetuates them.
At the beginning of the documentary, Thorpe tells how, after breaking up with her boyfriend, she went to a beach environment when she heard "crazy people" on the train and felt that she was rejected despite the similarity with her own tone of voice. That is the beginning of a search that begins with the attempt to remove all the "gais" with the help of a specialist in diction, but which leads to the understanding that stereotypes do not always respond to the idea that sustains them. Because there are very effeminate heterosexuals and markedly masculine gays, both in their diction and in their manners and that may have to do with something as simple as the environment in which they learn to speak.
The problem is that many aggressions or the bullying suffered by many adolescents are justified by these hackneyed ideas of what is gay or not. In the film appear adolescents who have been marginalized and assaulted by their peers for their voice and mannered ways. "I had a very complicated childhood. I was terrified that it would show that I was gay, so I learned to walk and talk like a straight" Reading these statements it is easy to reach the conclusion that there is little point in passing laws unless they are accompanied by a profound social transformation in relation to topics and stereotypes. Because in the end, according to Thorpe in the documentary, "Stereotypes are nothing but a way to preserve the social order and culture has reinforced those ideas. I grew up with the idea that being effeminate was bad. "
Sadly, no one has as internalized the stereotypes Gais or the lesbians as the own homosexuals. If we fail to understand them and eradicate them from our mentality, we can not expect them to be extirpated from the collective imagination and that will be the sad heritage that we will leave to the future LGTBI generations.
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