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POLL IT:- Straight-acting

How do you feel about the term straight-acting?

  • I don't like it, but i don't resent it's usage

    Votes: 14 15.7%

  • I don't like it, and i disapprove of those who use it

    Votes: 24 27.0%

  • I don't object to it, but i don't identify with it

    Votes: 23 25.8%

  • I identify as straight-acting

    Votes: 27 30.3%

  • I don't fully understand the term

    Votes: 1 1.1%
  • Total voters
    89
  • Poll closed .
I don't really object to it. A lot of people who use it don't mean it in a homophobic way, it just means that they don't fit too many, if any of the gay stereotypes.
 
Let's discuss this new phenomenon more... because people were capable of listening to and understanding both sides the first time.

And the last time.

And the next time.

Can't vote - none of those options say "it's a silly term for people trying to be needlessly wordy".
 
I voted for:

"I identify as straight-acting"

What I mean by that, I'm a GUY, who happens to Like GUYS, butt I'm still a GUY! ..|

And, even though I'm a GAY Guy, I ACT like any other Guy! \:/

Does that mean that ALL Guys are Str8? :confused:

Of course Not! ](*,)

However, the majority are. #-o

SO ... If acting like a Guy, means acting like I'm Str8, then, Yeah!, that's just the way it is! :D

I don't Flounce. My wrists are not Weak. And, in spite of my posting style, I do NOT overly Accentuate the way I speak, in RL! =;

SO ... though I'm definitely GAY, I don't ACT like a "Prancing Nancy", because as a Guy that's just NOT my Style! [-X

I'm a DUDE, who happens to Like other DUDES, butt, as a DUDE, I'm still, at my Very Core, a DUDE! \:/ (group)

All the more reasons to ... no matter what ...

Keep smilin'!! :kiss: (*8*)
Chaz :luv:
 
It is a lot less offense than saying "Not a flamer" .... It doesnt bother me one way or another. So many more important things to give a shit about in life. I take it to mean ... "I like sports and drinking beer.... wanna go horse back riding and fuck in the meadow..... "
 
mitchymo said:
Following yet another heated debate/discussion/argument/fight about the term straight-acting, how do you feel about the use of the term?

This poll is intended to provide some involvement from a wider group of Jubbers that don't necessarily engage in the same forums or to the same extent as more prolific posters, as well as those latter ones. I personally think it would be helpful to see how JUB may view the term, to at least get an idea of just how much of or little an issue it may actually be. Are self proclaimed straight acting gay guys in an incredibly small minority? Are those offended by the term over-reacting?
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Maybe it would help to preface your poll with a definition of just exactly what "straight acting" really means. The point is that there is no one way that "straight people" act, so how can anyone truly "act" straight. The same can be said about "gay acting", or bi, or..... Well, you get the idea.

We are all individuals with myriad little quirks of behavior that separate us (and join us to) one another, whether gay, straight, bi, lesbian, trans.... Our behavior is unique and individual between each and every one of us.
 
As other posters have already noted a clear cut definition of what "straight acting" means would assist...but I suspect each of us would define "straight acting" per our own personal understandings, not necessarily a human behaviourial trait easily defined by general consensus.

Every human person wears a mask pretending to be, who we are not....no exceptions.

When you rise from your bed, ask yourself, today are you going to interact with the human race wearing the mask of a person you’re not?...for many of us do....I confess, I've so done...much less so now that I have faced, and conquered my fears of being who I am.

If you are now telling yourself that you’re not wearing a mask right now, ask yourself this question, could it be that maybe, your mask has become so much of who you are, that you've chosen to become the fiction that you portray to the world.

William Shakespeare's wise reflection on human behaviour, his famous monologue, begins:

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,

~As You Like It, spoken by Jaques in Act II Scene VII
 
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I don't think it's as big of a deal as people think it is. It just means they're not flamboyant. The only problem is that people feel the need to say that to differentiate themselves from the cartoonish way gay people are portrayed in the media
 
Dejavudoo said:
And, from my personal experience, I have observed that some of those least tolerated socially are the ones who adopt a persona of being unconstrained, unaffected by the dominant culture, whatever it is.

Ironically, it is not just the dominant population that won't accept them, but also the other counterculturalists.

I'm not saying there aren't Bohemian subcultures of like-minded spirits, but I've simply noted that there are often "liberated" individuals who have allegedly so freed themselves that they coincidentally alienated everyone at the same time.
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Yes, their shrill speaks loudly, and defiantly that they are dominant Alpha males, whose declarations should thrill us.....
 
kallipolis said:
Every human person wears a mask pretending to be, who we are not....no exceptions.
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Not I. I have at times (hard to do undercover work without hiding your face) , but not since I gave up that line of work a while back.
 
Willie Boy said:
Not I. I have at times (hard to do undercover work without hiding your face) , but not since I gave up that line of work a while back.
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You have.......in the past.... that's fine, you've acknowledged that you are as imperfect, as the rest of the human race...lessons being learnt are always our constant travelling companion.
 
This may be a good place to reference this thread.


Whenever I would see that term being referenced in some description somewhere like in a CL ad or a blog or whatever, my first thought was the person was either insecure or on the DL. "if he's not straight, why bother acting?"

Wonder how someone would act if they were "Bi-acting".
 
I have no problem with the term, but it would never occur to me to identify myself in such a way. I guess I assumed it was something single guys called themselves as part of the mating game.
 
i voted option 2 (dont like, disapprove), but maybe i should qualify it. i dont disapprove of somebody who identifies as "straight acting" enough that i wouldnt fuck him if he bent over.
 
I don't object to the term. Endless guys that self label as straight-acting have yet to really fool me with their "straghtness." There are guys that can legitimately be called as "straight-acting." I can see how such labels make other gays feel unwanted or feel lesser.
 
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