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Nathan Zachary
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Social acceptance of gays vs lesbians
October 23, 2007 - 04:00 PM
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My question- Anyone think that the acceptance of gays in society is the same as the acceptance of lesbians in society?
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Re: Social acceptance of gays vs lesbians
October 23, 2007 - 04:09 PM
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Actually I don't think that gays and lesbians are accepted equally in our society. I believe that gays are generally a little more accepted than lesbians are. Why? Well I can't speak for the ignorance of society, but I feel that it goes back to the whole male vs female case: Males are respected more and discriminated against less in society than that of females.
That being said, I think that when people talk about homosexuality, its generally only thought of with gay males, rather than lesbian females. I also feel, that being a gay male is slowly becoming more accepted around society and more people are open and willing to talk about it. I don't feel that the same goes for lesbian females however. I think that being lesbian is still in a sense being kept under wraps for the most part, because aside from celebrities such as Ellen Degenres (i think thats how u spell it), lesbians arent getting the public acceptance that gays are.
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Re: Social acceptance of gays vs lesbians
October 23, 2007 - 04:30 PM
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Hmmm, I see your point, but I tend to think that they are accpeted equally under the homosexuality classification. I think that the male vs female debate stays within the bounds of discrimination when competing for jobs or promotions and things of that nature. Like how males statistically get paid higher than females with the same qualifications. But I am a little bewildered by the fact that i was talking to some people a few days ago, and they hadn't even heard the term "lesbian" before, but they were fully aware of the existence of "gay" people.
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Re: Social acceptance of gays vs lesbians
October 23, 2007 - 04:38 PM
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Wow, talk about culture shock. But thats just another example of the ignorance of society. Too many people are caught up in their own little worlds, that they sometimes can fall behind on the times. And thus that also adds to my belief that lesbians just arent accepted as easily as gays are. When someone says the word "homosexual" you probably think of a "gay male" before you think of a "lesbian female". I think that people generally know that there are homosexuals who are both male and female, but they just dont like to talk about the females, or they dont want to accept that they are around.
Also, look at the media! There's "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" all over television. But wheres the lesbian publicity? It's just not there, because people aren't as easily accepting of it.
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Re: Social acceptance of gays vs lesbians
October 23, 2007 - 04:55 PM
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There is a show called "the L word" and its quite good. I agree there are more shows for gay men, but I see that lesbians are more accepted than gays, why is this? Could it be that men find lesbians sexy and intriguing? And they see gay men as something unnatural.
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Re: Social acceptance of gays vs lesbians
October 23, 2007 - 05:34 PM
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Typically men will see lesbians as sexy and intriguing when they see something like a bunch of bikini-clad attractive women washing a car while physically grasping for each other. Yes that is true, however this fantasy is far from reality, and the last time i checked, most lesbians do not act in any way close to that behavior. Most real lesbians are automatically thought of with names and phrases such as "bull-dike" and so on. At least from my perspective thats how they are commonly viewed.
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Re: Social acceptance of gays vs lesbians
October 24, 2007 - 04:57 AM
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whereevr gays are acepted , i think even lesbian are accepted equally. but think of India, gays in modern culture is getting acceptance but idea of lesbian is fairly new. there was a movie on lesbian movie few yrs ago and people made such a hue and cry about it. but we see that appearence of gay charecter in the movie is quite common.
so its hard to say whether acceptance of gay and lesbian is the same.
but i cant image the situation in the middle east?
is it not true that homosexuality is strictly prohobited in middle east?
can u tell why?
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Re: Social acceptance of gays vs lesbians
October 29, 2007 - 06:52 AM
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i think lesbians are accepted more- we hear more about gay men so they tend to get more attention -both good and bad where as with lesbians it doesn't seem as controversial -it's there but it's not often broadcast as 'lesbian'-we see girls kissing girls a lot in our media but it doesn't make it 'lesbian' yet if a guys shown kissing a guy its instantly labeled as 'gay.' when it comes to lesbians guys find it sexy yet guys kissing guys for many still seems to have that 'gross' factor about it. Girls at my school are more willing to come out where as guys are still worried what other guys reactions will be. I think it really comes down to how we treat people of the same sex -girls tend to be more open and 'touchy-feely' with each other more, so lesbians for us aren't so big of a shock -a lot men however still carry that macho image with them so acceptance can be a bigger step.
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