Ear rings, do they cause homophobic reaction?

[lacrayfish]

You know there is a great deal homophobic attitude at schools or in colleges. I can not understand why some people would wear ear rings to make a statement they are gay? get unwanted abuse
To me look is the one you are born with. No tattoo or ear ring would change you to be more handsome

 

[DigitalFudge]

I'm going to answer your thread Title because I have aboslutely no idea what the body is talking about.


No, why would they? A lot of people wear ear rings.


Actually, men in tribal/ancient cultures were the only ones allowed to wear them for status reasons.

I want to pierce my ears, actually

 

[refujiunderground]

to be honest with you, i don't think the earring rule applies like that anymore in most places, i guess. i've seen straight guys wear earrings in the right ear and gay guys wear earrings in the left ear. nobody has ever said or did anything to them for it. with that said, i want to get my ears pierced or my right ear pierced.

 

[G-Lexington]

I had an earring in my right ear, and someone called me a "faggot" because of it.

But that was at a gas station.
In BF Utah.
In 1990.

We've moved on, I think.

Lex

 

[son1fan]

98% of the guys I see/interact/hangout with wear earrings(including myself). It I think that whole issue died a long time ago.

 

[rareboy]

What an idiotic premise.

There are as many or more straight guys wearing earrings as there are homos.

And why would that stop you.

Or. God forbid, are you the next iteration of the self-hating closeted homo that thinks that all guys should pretend to be straight and 'macho'?

 

[G-Lexington]

Ease up a bit, RB. I don't know the OP, but judging just by a couple of his posts, it sounds like he's new to it all. Possibly/probably closeted, perhaps unnerved and scared of it all. In which case, it's better to educate than to ridicule.

Lex

 

[Beachguyj]

You know there is a great deal homophobic attitude at schools or in colleges. I can not understand why some people would wear ear rings to make a statement they are gay? get unwanted abuse
To me look is the one you are born with. No tattoo or ear ring would change you to be more handsome

 

[HunterM]

To answer to your question on the title, ABSOLUTELY YES when you're wearing these at school.

 

[palbert]

To answer your question, I think they are so commonplace that they unseen. Personally, I think they look stupid. (And at one time I had 21 "non-visibie" piercings.

 

[Eternaldarkness]

Nobody is going to judge your sexuality on whether you're wearing earrings or not. Dude, in today's society, if a guy wears an earring is considered gay, then everyone who has multiple earrings or piercing are what, town sluts?

Only those ignorant enough is going to judge and believe in such stereotypes.

Earrings might fits more toward characters... but then again, you can't judge a person's character on their image. Just like tattoos. I've known a handsomely tattooed guy who turned out to be a very educated doctor.

 

[herry1]

This thread reminded me that I have a earring.

 

[G-Lexington]

>>>but i do have to disagree with your last statement, i think piercings and tattoos make guys soooo much more attractive

The weird thing is - I actually run into more non-tattoo prejudice than tattoo prejudice. It's presumably because of the company I keep, but I know far more people who wouldn't date a guy because he DIDN'T have ink than people who wouldn't date somebody because he DID.

Lex

 

[HoodedRat]

35+ years ago, in the UK, we had this little cultural thing called 'punk' ... ever since then most people appear to take little interest in what/where guys choose to sport piercings. The left/right thing certainly hasn't had any meaning since straight guys started wearing multiple rings in both ears.

Earrings really don't seem like much of a statement these days when even 50 year old women working in banks have nose-rings and eyebrow piercings.

I still wear one single earring, purely for nostalgic reasons.

 

[bw92116]

30 to 40 years ago in California, a man wearing an earring was unheard of, unless he was in costume on Halloween or he was openly gay, and back then few people were openly gay. So an earring had a strong significance then. And tattoos, at least in the culture I lived in, meant that you were either a sailor or a low-life. Women did not have tattoos, period. And any man who wore pink, purple or any "girl's color" would be ridiculed.

That was then, this is now. I think sometime in the 1980s styles and fashions began to change dramatically, at least in California. The "neon shirt" craze in the mid-80s (and I had a green neon shirt) seemed to change everything as far as what colors a man could wear. Now, in 2012 you can see heterosexual men wearing something like a pink polo shirt at a party, or a lavender windbreaker, or whatever, and nobody even notices. It's like nothing means anything any more. And it seems like huge numbers of people have tattoos, even women.

As far as earrings, you see them on many men, straight, bi, gay, but in my experience men who wear them wear very small earrings. You might not even notice it's there, until a glint of sunlight is reflected off it. It seems to have no social significance, at least in California. At one time maybe 20 years ago there was a rumor floating around that wearing one earring on one ear, I forget which side, meant you were gay and wearing one on the other ear meant you were straight. But I don't think that was ever a very popular "rule." Now I think it's common to see earrings, even nose rings and the like on men, but mostly the type of men who get lots of tattoos.

 

[TheOscar]

Oh no, ear rings are actually not considered that "gay". It has completely different meanings across many different cultures, societies, groups, etc.

 

[AlmondMilk]

I rarely see guys wear those loop earrings. Usually I either see guys wear those studs or those gauges.

 

[MoufOfKhaos]

Most of the guys around here that have earrings are straight.

I'm gay and have have no desire to have a piercing of any kind.

Go figure.

 

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You know there is a great deal homophobic attitude at schools or in colleges. I can not understand why some people would wear ear rings to make a statement they are gay? get unwanted abuse
To me look is the one you are born with. No tattoo or ear ring would change you to be more handsome

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[lambdaboy]

By the late 80's they were not only a gay or hippie thing.

Also if someone says only girls can wear them tell them that Only Pharaohs, neb war them 5000 years ago. Then tell them to fuck off.

I worked at a motel once and the second night the manager said I could not wear an earring I said no problem as soon as you and the rest of the women take yours off I will take mine off. She never bothered me again grin.