Re: masculine/feminine?

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

In a message dated 1/28/06 9:15:44 PM, db.list at PMPKN.NET writes:


> 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.
>

I don't think there would be any doubt that they would do exactly what David
suggests. The same thing would happen if you got a statistically reasonable
sample of homosexual American men.

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