I get the universal feminine idea. But don’t you think “inside every cowboy there’s a lady that’d love to slip out” leads to more ‘which one of you wears the dress’ among the folks we’d most like to enlighten?
Dude, there’s a much larger context here.
Are you gay? What’s your perspective here? Are you approaching this as an intellectually curious but emotionally removed anthropologist or political scientist? Or are you approaching it as someone who’s thrilled to have some of the quirks and joys of your “secret world” celebrated in a joyful–and public–way?
Is this, in other words, like a straight guy saying, “Well if black people call each other nigga, isn’t that perpetuating old stereotypes”?
If so, fine, that’s your right. But you’re not going to *convince *someone with a different perspective that they have a political duty tease a phrase out of its overall cultural context in order to find a way to be offended by it, when the overall context is clearly NOT offensive.
Egad! I’m a gay man that feels too many homophobes* assume someone has to act feminine in a male-male relationship.
[sub]* and perhaps a few gay men too.[/sub]
Well, you’re going to react to such things in a personal way. Me, I think you’re being over sensitive and creating offense where there is none.
It was closer to a nit than a call to arms.