masculine/feminine?

[David Bowie]

RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:

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> The point of my earlier posting was just to suggest what I think is a
> more appropriate gloss 'brokeback' and to ask if it was David, or
> "Boondocks," that gave the 'lacking in masculinity' gloss.

Oh--if that's what it was for, to clarify, that gloss was quoted
directly from Boondocks.

After all this discussion, though, i'm wondering what would happen if
you got a statistically reasonable sample of heterosexual American men
to speak/act/whatever "gay". I wonder if markers of
femininity/effeminateness would enter into it? Maybe i can ask one of
the sociologists here whether anything like that's been done, next time
i see one.

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