<p>Go the gym. Look at the guys lifting weights and voila! Problem solved.</p>
<p>A lot of the guys lifting are not exactly manly either.</p>
<p>But at least he can see the ones who are the stereotypical jock type.</p>
<p>man. this thread is so funny. people reading this in 20 years will laugh at how unaware we are… its just a sexual preference… nothing more… all these stereotypes will fade.</p>
<p>and theres a difference between identifying with the opposite sex (a guy acting like a girl) and being gay</p>
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A lot of stereotypes come about in the first place because they tend to be true, at least in a large enough portion of the population that people notice them. (In other words, they will never hold true 100% of the time-that is why they’re stereotypes after all- but they are frequent enough that people associate homosexuals with them).</p>
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Yet a lot of the time (again, not all the time) the two coincide.</p>
<p>People’s mouths still drop when they find out I am gay… I just assume everyone knows. I’ve been out and happy for about a year now. :-\ people STILL think I date my best friend who, go figure, is a lesbian.</p>
<p>Why is your friend not wanting to come out?</p>
<p>Best Wishes,
~Matthew</p>
<p>a lot of the stuff in this thread is gettin to me. “eat like a man, dont eat salads, talk about a sport, burp, blah blah blah.” sounds like a bunch of rednecks posted in this thread.</p>
<p>This morning on the train, I said something on the phone to my friend that must have made the people sitting next to me think I was gay (this was unintentional of course, but I witnessed a reaction suggestive of this). I said “Good morning _____” in a really uptight, formal tone. I also said “That’s correct.” According to the character in A Boy’s Own Story, my words and intonation alone would’ve classified me as gay. I believe there’s some truth to what he said, because I’ve observed that in an informal context, straight guys are less likely to say “That’s correct.”</p>