That being a woman was a better choice than being an effeminate gay man because as an effeminate gay man I'd been so abused.
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For people that are effeminate — effeminate men — and they went to high school and they were called gay, queer and faggot all the time — like, this is why I'm doing this.
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Trump tried to emasculate him, suggesting his shoes were effeminate.
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If there is an effeminate boy, he's in big trouble.
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They accuse him of reducing gay characters to effeminate parodies.
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Well, now I feel very effeminate -- GUTFELD: In a tin cup.
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I've always been very effeminate, loved playing with Barbies and dolls.
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Regulating toxic waste, he seems to feel, would be somehow effeminate.
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" Reason 10: "Because satellite channels normalise men being effeminate and sissies.
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They were more taken aback because I am so effeminate and flamboyant.
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They smeared Northerners sympathetic to reports of violence as dupes and effeminate.
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Chinese state media outlets have also criticized male celebrities who appear effeminate.
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But the appearance of an "effeminate" boy band in a widely watched education program on Chinese television at the weekend spurred some parents to protest that the country was doomed to become "effeminate" if such acts were allowed.
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Programs aimed at effeminate or pointy-headed undertakings like educating children get cut.
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Adlai Stevenson of Illinois, a Princeton graduate, as an "egghead" — an effeminate intellectual.
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To some men, a man who claims to have postpartum depression sounds effeminate.
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These types range from small, effeminate boys to girls in Lolita-like getups.
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Her client is "effeminate," she says, and she fears for his safety in detention.
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With these findings in mind, the deck looks stacked against a hypothetical effeminate candidate.
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At least for now, become less effeminate—that is, if you hope to win.
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Pussy, wimp, and faggot—those are words that just mark you as being effeminate.
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I grew up a cerebral, effeminate child in a farm town in Northern California.
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But among the gay community, the marginalization and subordination of effeminate gay men continued.
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Confusingly, an Iraqi seeking asylum was reportedly rejected last month because he was too effeminate.
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Applicants' race could be counted against them, as could messiness, poor morals, and 'effeminate gestures.
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"Ain't I pretty?" he would pout and shout, daring anyone to think him effeminate also.
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Erickson's voice, high-pitched, almost effeminate, strains and cracks as he shouts to be heard.
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Later, the broadcasting regulator banned the depiction of gay characters or effeminate men on television.
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He's from Texas, but he got the almost effeminate quality of those West Texas boys.
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This ancient effeminate energy has also manifested in the form of jewelry charms and talismans.
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Army machismo was hard on anyone smaller or more effeminate than the rest of the unit.
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Effeminate with red hair and a fondness for singing, I was picked on, bullied and harassed.
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One Scottish historian denounced your aristocrats as "foully licentious, utterly effeminate...pampered minions and bepowdered poetasters".
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In some ways, I hope in the most important ways, I am a sensitive, effeminate man.
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This Richard is notably effeminate and moves suddenly between sighing boredom and fits of angry petulance.
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The Hopkins case has since been used by effeminate men to protect themselves against workplace discrimination.
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In his early work, Dr. Green found that many effeminate boys grow up to be gay.
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Other terms such as "naff" (bad), "bevvy" (drink), and "camp" (effeminate) continue to be used colloquially.
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"I wrote her back and said that was me — headstrong little effeminate gay kid," Whiteside says.
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In other words, would voters—who overwhelmingly claim they'd consider a gay candidate—elect an effeminate president?
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But one of the more obvious examples—and perhaps the most persistent gay stereotype—is effeminate speech.
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While an effeminate vocal register may seem an insignificant quirk, it can be a very disruptive trait.
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They'd pick on her for being small and effeminate, and sometimes beat the shit out of her.
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Bernard swaps stereotyping digs with Robin de Jesús's (excellent) Emory, the most flamboyantly effeminate of the lot.
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They lived in Stockton, a conservative, conformist place, and Mac stood out for being theatrical and effeminate.
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There's also the not-so-minor issue that villains in film are commonly portrayed as gay or effeminate.
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Men can be detained for "looking gay" or being effeminate, says Badr Baabou of Damj, a pressure group.
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" She recalled its members as "scrappy, skinny effeminate dudes" who had "primal sex oozing out of their pores.
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At first, we thought, Maybe we have a queer child, or, Maybe she's just gay and/or effeminate.
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These effeminate men were distinguished from the "trade" men, or heteros who occasionally accepted sex with a gay.
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There, she was bullied in school by classmates and teachers because of her perceived sexual orientation and effeminate mannerisms.
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To fit in, you might try to be even harder, teasing the kid who is more effeminate than you.
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The women tolerate him because the other men believe he is effeminate, and because he is the community's schoolteacher.
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I had to wrestle my way through a crowd of mean looking, big women and their effeminate, browbeating husbands.
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Have you been affected by American projections of Asian men as 'effeminate' and the negative connotations in the US?
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It was so good that it transcended boundaries, and boys could read it without fear of being considered effeminate.
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As a result, a man in yellow was deemed an effeminate reprobate with no regard for the social order.
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He took over ahead of his older brother Kim Jong Chol, whom their father thought was "effeminate" and weak.
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The first enemy you meet is an effeminate, muscular guy wearing a tight pink floral shirt and cutoff jean shorts.
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American pop culture is full of jokes at the expense of Asian men, frequently stereotyping them as weak and effeminate.
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In this role, he grounds the classically effeminate gay man in a bedrock of genuine pain, yes, but also resilience.
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" The New York Daily News called him "a neurotic young man with a flair for feminine accoutrements and effeminate companions.
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According to the local news media, a spokeswoman for the agency said transgender comedians had "brainwashed" some boys to be effeminate.
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While the Greeks saw wine as a man's drink, beer was considered effeminate, and thus was made and consumed by women.
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The film successfully represents a wide spectrum of gender performance — not all girls are butch, and not all boys are effeminate.
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It is an attempt to demonstrate the Donald's hyperpotence over and against all the effeminate detritus of the world's elite politicians.
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Raised in Brooklyn, he began his education at an Orthodox Jewish yeshiva where he was bullied for being overweight and effeminate.
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And otherwise you were gay, and if you were gay you had to be what was referred to then as effeminate.
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But the characters continued to play into stereotypes of effeminate Asian men as they pranced around onstage, giggling at one another.
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Authorities in the northeastern state of Terengganu in 2011 organized a camp for "effeminate" boys to show them how to become men.
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If there is an edge, it goes to Mr. McKellen, whose scurrying, effeminate Norman is a study in subordination and repressed emotion.
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But, he says, "effeminate men, gay men, smaller men, people who are perceived as younger men," don't enjoy quite the same benefits.
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And I found, most surprisingly, that gay men can be just as sexist against effeminate men as straight men are against women.
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While Title 7 protects men from being fired for being effeminate, that protection applies equally to straight and gay employees, he wrote.
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"Every field of work has a stereotype associated with it, from the effeminate hair stylist to the no-nonsense scientist," Damas explained.
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Twenty-five years earlier she had been Mark, an effeminate boy trying on his mother's clothes in a small city in the Philippines.
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The irony being that in the big, bold, United States, artists were thought of sort of pansies, or et cetera, et cetera. Effeminate.
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So with ingrained homophobia, persistent sexism, and voters' preference for "masculine" sounding voices, what's the best strategy for an effeminate candidate in America?
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I wanted to use this video as an opportunity to tap into my effeminate side and show that black boys can be feminine.
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They focus in on the effeminate minister and launch into some observational comedy on gender fluidity that indicates the writer forgot it's 2018.
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He often wrings his hands, the very gesture that was deemed, he says, too effeminate in the working-class milieu of his childhood.
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And once trans people come out (or even before they come out, if they're perceived as effeminate), forget about any preferential treatment at all.
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To his father's consternation, everything from Eddy's manner of speaking, to his gait, to his tastes are effeminate in the eyes of the townspeople.
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When a boy is noticeably effeminate, he will likely be taught the traditional duties of Samoan women, which often means working within the house.
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While Scar is considered one of the best Disney villains, many saw his snide remarks, movements, and effeminate attitude to fit a gay stereotype.
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In gay and straight bars alike, it's apparent that such subordination falls upon the shoulders of women, effeminate men, and gender non-conforming individuals.
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After all, this guy is quite effeminate—he works in fashion and is so light in his loafers that he's practically hovering above them.
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A woman who cracks open oysters has to be somewhat brave—not an effeminate girl who's afraid that her nail polish will be ruined.
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Saar's new paintings, displayed in the main gallery space, are small, tender portraits of effeminate mixed race men proudly dressed in fashionable female attire.
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Perhaps the crossing of my legs would have been considered less effeminate, or noticeable, if not paired with the way I carried my books.
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To have a public queer identity, or to be perceived as too effeminate, can still affect a dancer's ability to land these lead roles.
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Fortunately, a good friend — the acerbic, mildly effeminate Churton Saunders (a delightfully droll Hugh Sachs), called Chuffy — is there to offer counsel and sympathy.
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He was also instructed to avoid socializing or being close with his mom or sisters in order to deter any effeminate behavior they might encourage.
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Donald "Goldfinger" Trump has tried from the beginning of his campaign to emasculate, or effeminate, his opponents and detractors by calling them names, branding them.
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The explanation came as a revelation to Ms. Abu Hanna, who had always assumed she would live her life as a very effeminate gay man.
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Many parents also expressed disapproval over the choice of an all-male pop band for the program's opening musical act, saying they were too "effeminate".
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For much of the movie, Mr. Gad plays the character as a slightly effeminate man with a pretty obvious crush on the dashing villain Gaston.
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He told Judhajit that he does drag to represent "the effeminate gay man, the masculine lesbian… (who) are still largely ostracized," even by the LGBTQ community.
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After doing Domestica, which was this muscular, post-hardcore thing, we went into this more beautifully effeminate record, even though it's still very weird and loud.
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Just as in straight bars, where women did not cause certain instances of aggression that they faced, gendered and sexist stereotypes were placed upon effeminate men.
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I know I don't see him as effeminate, and I don't know anyone who sees him that way, but I'm sure there are many who do.
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Engaging and down to earth, she opened doors that, without her, would have remained closed to her companion, whose flamboyantly effeminate manner struck many townspeople as outlandish.
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Lee Hang's mother, Rona Tauli Lee, said Keyonce was a happy child who showed effeminate signs from age three, and who used to wear her sister's dresses.
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That said, the extent to which I witnessed or observed actual aggression involving effeminate gay men, aside from narratives of verbal arguments or slapping fights, was zero.
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Ballet, undoubtedly, is still burdened by stereotypes: There are the eating disorders, the effeminate men and the vindictive ballerinas who stop at nothing to get a role.
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The sitters acting out the role of vahine in these portraits are not just cisgender women, but ma¯hu¯ (Polynesian for effeminate men) and rae-rae (transgender).
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Pamela Karlan, their lawyer, told the justices there is "no analytic difference" between firing someone for being gay and sacking "men who are effeminate rather than macho".
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I was crossing my legs because I was trying to shrink, trying to be less of a presence than my tall, lanky, yet graceful (see: effeminate) body demanded.
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Natalie and Eva fell into a passionate romance, but Natalie could be a harsh lover, often criticizing what she saw as Eva's predilection for "effeminate" theaterarts, particularly musical performances.
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Although he hid his sexuality from his family, at school he cultivated a gregarious, pretentious, preppy, and extremely effeminate persona inspired by the aristocratic, queer Brideshead character Sebastian Flyte.
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By juxtaposing softer gestures with more aggressive ones, the performance also reminds the audience of an era before the 1979 revolution, when Iranian men danced in an effeminate manner.
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One of the most significant aspects of Tom's work was the way it challenged the prevailing stereotype about gay males, especially at the time, as being effeminate or weak.
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In youth, Shogun found that he was picked on for being effeminate and disliking sports; as he started playing music, he was criticised for seeming chauvinistic and too masculine.
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If Mr. Guest's brief turn as Corky infuses "Mascots" with a maniacal spark, it must be said that his gushy effeminate stereotype feels out of date and borderline offensive.
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In 1590 Juan Sánchez Cotán painted his "Bearded Lady of Peñaranda," probably not as a medical curiosity, but more likely to warn men about effeminate behavior, Mr. Navarro said.
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Other plays characterized Asian men as effeminate and desexualized, stemming from the societal fear that they would reproduce with white women and pose an existential threat to the race.
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In his comments, Kanye lauded Trump for the masculine MAGA hat that makes him feel "like Superman," as opposed to the effeminate Hillary and her "I'm with her" slogan.
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They feature queer men and women of color who don't look like macho or effeminate stereotypes, femmes in hijabs, and folks of all body types looking fly as ever.
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She stood up to people on the street who heckled him because he was effeminate, and fought with school officials who wrote him off as a rowdy black kid.
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It couldn't be further from camp, which Bolton traces back "to the flamboyant posturing of the French court under Louis XIV" and Louis XIV's effeminate brother Philippe I, duc d'Orléans.
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BA: I would like to say that I'm sure there are going to be a lot of people that are more on the effeminate side — I'm speaking about gay men.
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After seven years as an effeminate teenager in an all-boys' school, university had been a time of much greater freedom in large part due to the presence of women.
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Omarosa claims that Trump thought Jared Kushner was gay Jared Kushner is typically seen as a useless, corrupt dilettante by the left and a effeminate, globalist dandy by the right.
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Robertson rightly calls this theorizing "courageous and peculiar" and then comes down hard on Carpenter for having constructed a sexual hierarchy in which masculine Uranians were elevated over effeminate ones.
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A former sushi chef for the Kim family who is Japanese has said he once heard their father call the older brother too effeminate to lead the highly militarized country.
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In these poems she finds a portrait of Southampton that doesn't tally with the traditional stereotype of the patron as an effeminate, ineffectual youth engaged in a love affair with Shakespeare.
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It catered to gay men who dressed in leather, a symbol of homosexual masculinity in contrast with the more effeminate attitude of groups of gay men congregating elsewhere in San Francisco.
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The South Korean soldier had seen another low-ranking conscript, deemed effeminate and suspected of being gay, being sexually abused, beaten and forced to drink from a toilet bowl by other soldiers.
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A third sibling, Kim Jong Chul, was rumored to have been ruled out as his father's successor for being too "effeminate," Scott Snyder of the Council on Foreign Relations wrote in 2012.
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"It's pretty uncontroversial that discriminating against a man that acts too effeminate or a woman that acts too masculine is a form of sex discrimination," the ACLU's Joshua Block previously told me.
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When I wrote "Drone Bomb Me," I wrote it from a place of complete rage, and as an effeminate and feminine person, the way I express rage most effectively is very sly.
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She was expelled from high-school for her distinctly effeminate behaviours, and then at age 17 detained for more than two months in an adult prison, where she was raped and beaten.
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She explained that Egyptian police have been known to stop people walking down the street who look effeminate or simply grab their attention; the move could protect people subject to random searches.
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In particular, he stresses the importance of Abstract Expressionism as a symbol of American individualism and anti-Communism, contrasting American art against the effeminate and tasteful art made in Paris, for example.
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Well, because again, 30 years ago, in fashion photos you either had gay men who were shown as what would have then been called effeminate or you had super strong heterosexual men.
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And while I was bullied and ostracized for being black, I joined in and punished others for being effeminate or slow, hoping that would shield me from or endear me to my tormentors.
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In early 2016 the Indonesia Broadcasting Commission banned television stations from screening images of "effeminate men" or of anyone campaigning for rights for gay or transgender people, to protect children from "deviant" influences.
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In the latter half of the eighteenth century, a new subculture emerged in England: the outlandishly dressed "macaroni men," who flaunted a proto-dandy brand of masculinity that was often mocked as effeminate.
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To be moved, like puppets, by appetites and passions, is common to us with the wild beasts, with the most effeminate wretches, Phalaris, and Nero, with atheists, and with traitors to their country.
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When Eddy, long since marked as effeminate, starts "playing the woman" with a bunch of boys having sex in a barn, only he is outed and made to pay a price in shame.
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At first glance, Chosun's scroll may seem to depict the typical male-female tussle, as such male-on-male scenes usually pair an older gentleman with a younger, more effeminate lover, as Olson said.
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" Some of the definitions were more nuanced: an "auntie," Leitsch had written, was "an ageing or middle aged homosexual, offtimes effeminate in character," or "a person of settled demeanor who cautions against intemperate acts.
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He doesn't mention, for instance, that Brown's Yale classmates called him Henrietta because they thought he was effeminate—which might have contributed to Brown's eagerness not to appear like a man who didn't belong.
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" Kai talked about having long identified with "effeminate, foppish" males in literature, from Romeo to recurrent types in romance novels, and about adoring Julie Andrews as a gender-pretzeling nightclub performer in "Victor/Victoria.
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To the club's thinking, the alternative for the boys, ages 7 to 12, is life in a society where androgynous pop idols, overprotective mothers and mostly female teachers would turn them into effeminate crybabies.
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"Trans women and effeminate men are harassed most because ours is a very patriarchal society," said Suresh Ramdas, who heads the LGBT support group for Hewlett-Packard, the world's largest personal computer maker, in India.
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As a result of it being more rare in men, and perhaps more culturally associated with an effeminate shape, the internet is full of dudes who are stressed out about the size of their butts.
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As the dolls — now evolved into full-on Nazis — creatively disassemble conventioneers identified solely by lazy signifiers (a yarmulke here, an effeminate gesture there), the filmmakers put their faith in prurience and cunningly miniaturized weaponry.
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A Rare and Important Nanshoku (Male-Male) Shunga Handscroll, however, shows a theatrical exchange between an older man and an effeminate looking lover, which was a commonly accepted activity in Japanese society of the day.
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The term has evolved to encapsulate a political meaning, one that now equates mainstream conservatives with effeminate values, with the term cuckservative used to denote someone who willfully absorbs conservative values with a liberal/centrist bent.
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There are hundreds of years [of history] of men using effeminate insults in America, but I think what we're seeing now came out of the prison and gang cultures of the last 30 to 40 years.
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Invoking hurtful stereotypes of gay men as effeminate to target a specific gay person, as well as disparaging references to that person's ethnic background, seems about as straightforward a violation of this policy as can be.
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Yet Zima, despite strong sales and nearly half of American alcohol drinkers having tried it, was met largely with ridicule: David Letterman, for instance, made a habit of parodying it as a drink for effeminate weirdos.
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"One of the conversations within Jewish law has declared a woman's hair to be nakedness and part of the alluring nature of the effeminate," Rabbi Avram Mlotek, a Modern Orthodox-ordained rabbi who teaches in Manhattan, says.
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At home, Putin has cultivated a kind of macho, hyper-masculine cult of personality — a sense that he's the strongman Russia needs, especially compared to what he derides as the effeminate (or female) leaders of the West.
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There will be people who will see Trump's many alleged infidelities (which he denies) as well as his well-documented bullying as quintessential masculine behavior and will dismiss Buttigieg's levelheadedness and affection toward his husband as effeminate.
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It was replaced by the Palmer Method, which was seen as a more muscular and masculine hand suitable for the industrial age — a "plain and rapid style," as Austin Palmer described it, to replace the more effeminate Spencerian.
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By utilizing domiciliary objects and effeminate colors, Renee denotes the traditional role of women being confined to the kitchen, the seedy underbelly of traditional households, and the pervasive need to be viewed as perfect by the outside world.
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Training in Western classical music, singing, songwriting, and performing have been central to Sudipto's life, but he found performing to be more frightening than exciting, because he was scarred by early memories of being mocked for his effeminate mannerisms.
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The trilogy was a showcase for his outsized personality and aggressive jokiness, which leaned heavily on camp and on that unmistakable voice, but it also movingly articulated an effeminate gay man's desire for love and his insistence on respect.
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It's just the latest in a long history of Trump mocking people for their appearance and affectations, particularly men he deems effeminate or not traditionally masculine enough for his taste, like "low energy" Jeb Bush or "little" Marco Rubio.
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Mr. Pollister, who moved to California from New Mexico to escape what he called "an oppressive Republican rural community who ostracized and tortured me for being an effeminate gay man," was humiliated and upset to be excluded, he said.
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When you're like 10, you don't want to be seen as gay or effeminate, so from a young age I put that attraction, and the accompanying feelings of anxiety, fear, and shame in the deepest corners of my mind.
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Or about effete television personalities like Paul Lynde on Hollywood Squares or Charles Nelson Reilly on Match Game, game-show contestants whose double entendre–laden wisecracks helped them play the "nancy," a vaudeville-era term for an effeminate male jester.
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If a trans woman was assigned male at birth, the thinking goes, she may have been treated like a man her entire life before her transition — and that can have real advantages, even if she was also mocked for seeming effeminate.
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One answer relates to the persistent stigma associated with reading as gay—it's a deep-seated homophobic reality where it's OK for gay people to be gay, just as long as they don't act or sound too gay or effeminate.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - A prominent Chinese film reviewer slammed the use of the term "effeminate" to describe China's often heavily made-up boy bands and challenged his online followers to take a more informed view of what being a man entails.
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Conversely, men I spoke with—whether bears (gay lingo for a stocky, hairy, stereotypically masculine guy) or twinks (lithe, boyish, and stereotypically feminine-presenting men), hypermasculine or feminine—frequently blamed men more effeminate than them for causing aggression in gay bars.
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" Rebecca Isaacs, executive director of the Equality Federation: "If you think about traditional male and female presentation, the LGB movement was always a challenge to that — and it always had to do with gender nonconforming through butch women and effeminate men.
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But also a lot of the material describes Sheppard as this legendary sexy figure and kind of what we would now describe as gender queer — as effeminate and small, which was key to his ability to break out of prison.
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"To cultivate a new generation that will shoulder the responsibility of national rejuvenation, we need to resist erosion from indecent culture," the official Xinhua News Agency wrote in a 2018 commentary that criticized those it called China's effeminate young male idols.
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" When Mr. Yang got hit with criticism on social media from "a group of people who are convinced that there's this conspiracy theory that only effeminate Asian men get elevated," he simply thought to himself, "Hoes mad, hoes mad, hoes mad.
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But when the specter of ending up like Jimmy Carter — an effeminate president unable to decisively defeat an Iranian menace — became a live possibility, he overreacted, proving once again the man is nothing but the sum of his own insecurities.
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Okonkwo fell victim to the unrealistic standards of toxic masculinity throughout Things Fall Apart: he beat his wives, killed a child put under his care, and refused to show affection, all in the name of not appearing weak or effeminate.
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Street Fighter V's F.A.N.G portrays some of the most classically derogatory Asian stereotypes—villainous, weak, conniving, effeminate—with such ferocity, it is astounding that it passed through so many eyes in Capcom without comment and continues to do so with its players.
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But cache in these rural regions of the American South depended not on the trappings of wealth; the careful grooming and fine clothing of the middle and upper classes were perhaps not seen as effeminate, but were certainly not signifiers of manliness.
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The list describes masculine gay men as having a penchant for "wearing tight shirts to show off their six pack" and keeping facial hair, and a separate line that says effeminate gay men go wide-eyed every time they see a handsome man.
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The utopian feminists are also eugenicists and anti-Semites; the men who dream of a perfect world where same-sex attraction is privileged also unconsciously mimic the hierarchy of patriarchy, putting effeminate or cross-dressing "Uranians" at the bottom of their ladder.
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Those boys who cheered for the Colombian soccer team, made a ruckus on our independence day, and lived their lives with an effortlessness I envied were the same ones who'd call me a marica during school lunches and mock my effeminate tastes.
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In it, Mx. Tobia, 27, describes a metamorphic journey from intellectually precocious, effeminate, churchgoing son of middle-class parents in Raleigh, N.C., to standard-bearer for an identity that, while far from new in historical terms, still is met with discomfort and scorn.
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Nadeem Kashish, 35, a transgender woman who is the leader of Pakistan's She-Male Association for Fundamental Rights, said she had endured ridicule and violence as an effeminate child and the humiliation of performing as an oddity in a circus as a teenager.
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"But it does take a man who would look at it and say, 'I am not threatened by wearing pink' or 'I don't think I am going to be viewed by other people as being too effeminate if I wore pink,' " she said.
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In "I am in training don't kiss me," Cahun sits in front of the camera as a strongman, but an effeminate one: a fake barbell across her lap, pale cheeks decorated with painted hearts, two slicks of hair curling on her forehead.
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As Depp himself has said in many interviews, the character was The Rolling Stones' Keith Richards combined with cartoon skunk Pepé Le Pew — a macho but effeminate drunk clown, with rock star sex appeal, but a cartoonish quality and enough androgyny to be unthreatening.
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He removed his headphones from his ears and put his sunglasses — large and round and stylishly effeminate in an early-1980s way, like the sunglasses Mia Farrow wears in ''Broadway Danny Rose'' — atop his mohawk, then smiled broadly and extended his hand to introduce himself.
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The way he changed my worldviews, like whenever he had to push back at idiots in school who got at him because of his effeminate mannerisms; he really helped me forget my own idiocy on what I thought a man was supposed to look like.
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He is attired after the effeminate fashion often favored in photographing young boys more than a century ago, with the addition of round pink dots on his cheeks, and she wears a tutu-like skirt and a curly wig that makes her seem like a supersize Shirley Temple.
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As if to underline this point, the film's screenwriters added an openly gay kid, Ethan (Clark Moore), who isn't in the novel, but he only ends up serving as Simon's demographic counterpoint — he's black and effeminate — and as a reminder that it still takes some real steel to come out in high school.
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Here are our personal favorites: *The Funky Phantom*Scooby-Doo with a non-talking bulldog Scooby-Doo and ghosts who are the sidekicks (an effeminate revolutionary war ghost and his snickering ghost cat)One of several HB series animated in Australia which is why it looks so different than everything else. pic.twitter.
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It wasn't an easy place for anyone, and was especially challenging for the effeminate son of a single mother who, as a five-year-old playfully taking her clothes off along with a brother and sister she was friends with, was shocked to discover she didn't have the same anatomy as the girl.
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He was reportedly a boy (and later a man) of exceptional good looks and grace, and art historians have conjectured that he might have posed for Verrocchio's delicate, curly-haired bronze David, described by Isaacson as "a slightly effeminate and strikingly pretty boy of about fourteen," whose face bears the hint of a smile.
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A man veering too far in the wrong direction on this binary is pejoratively deemed "gay," for example, not conforming to the relatively strict visual codes associated with "real men," a conclusion that seems to spring from the same fallacy that says gay men exhibit feminine characteristics, and that any man demonstrating effeminate qualities must be gay.
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Whether it is lesbians of the 1960s "sheltering behind an anonymous green door" on the King's Road, or a 1726 raid on Mother Clap's molly house—the name given to locations in which effeminate gay men would meet—in Holborn, the history Ackroyd paints is one of concealment and segregation: the dark side of the escapist ideals.
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After two years spent in watering holes of all stripes (it was for science, I swear), I saw many stereotypes confirmed—for instance, that sexual violence runs rampant in straight bars, or that gay and straight men negotiate sexual consent in vastly different ways—but one surprising pattern slowly revealed itself: The way straight men discuss women and the way gay men discuss effeminate men are remarkably similar.
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"It was developed as a secret language in order to identify oneself to like-minded or similarly closeted homosexuals, a shorthand of arcane and coded, almost kabbalistic references and practices developed in order to operate safely apart and without fear of detection from a conservative and conventional world that could be aggressively hostile towards homosexuals, particularly effeminate males and masculine females," writes the artist and filmmaker Bruce LaBruce.
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One titled "Miss Scaripant, October 1871" turns out to be a portrait of a bowler-wearing Odette, whose gender-shattering self-assurance is foregrounded by Elstir's art: Along the lines of the face, the latent sex seemed to be on the point of confessing itself to be that of a somewhat boyish girl, then vanished, and reappeared further on with a suggestion rather of an effeminate vicious and pensive youth, then fled once more and remained elusive (908).
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There are a few genuine heroes: the chain-smoking onetime punk Mark Harrington, who mastered both the science of H.I.V. and the federal bureaucracy so that spectacular protests could be backed by rigorous analyses to force the government to do better; Garance Franke-Ruta, a high school dropout who became one of the key women, along with Iris Long, in mastering treatment options and scientific data; Peter Staley, a closeted Wall Street trader, who found his life's purpose by becoming first a radical activist and then perhaps the most important liaison between the activists and the scientific community; and most movingly, Michael Callen, an effeminate reed of a realist, who refused to be a passive observer of his own death.
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