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Would gender expression & sexuality be more fluid if it was more socialy acceptable?

  • 29-07-2011 7:45am
    #1
    Freiheit
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    Would people be more comfortable acknowledging bisexual tendencies?(even if not held in equal measure to heterosexual ones),would many men really take an interest in make up for example,if it was ok?...There thousands of other possible examples,but how fluid would expression really be if it was socially ok?.


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  • #2
    L.Jenkins
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    If it was socially acceptable, I could imagine expression would be considerable diverse as ones individuality.


  • #3
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,156 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    I think so yes - it was not socially acceptable in the past for women to wear trousers or to drink pints

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #4
    Asry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 883 ✭✭✭Asry


    That's true about the women. And with this whole 'metrosexual' thing, maybe things will be moving in the right direction. I mean all the skincare products that are on the market for men, etc, the focus on grooming that I notice among my friends that's not stereotypically 'male'.

    I always hope that someday we might return magically to ancient Greece where I'd be comfortable.

    Sorry, I've been really moany lately. Maybe I have permanent pms! :)


  • #5
    G.K.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,704 ✭✭✭G.K.


    Almost certainly, IMO.


  • #6
    Aishae
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    sure, what are society 'accepted norms' but a sum of the way things changed over time?
    as salsa said, once it wasnt ok for women to wear trousers - it was also deeply frowned upon for women to work at one time (but this was more so in high society - yet even at one stage in time, most women were expected to be housewives)
    before the victorian times, most women only worked in the home or on the land. but they did have more manual jobs (making baskets <- as a basic example)
    so things change over time - and dont always necessarily progress forward.

    yet in the last 50 years there has been a lot of progress and many things have changed for many differnt sections of society (not just women)

    i wonder if the lines are blurring more and more - between what is acceptable for men/women. take the trousers and pints thing as an example for women. and more men wear subtle make up, less 'macho' clothes and so on.


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