why the gay who acts like a girl and lesbian who acts like a man are the more common stereotype?

Question

Hello I dont want to offended someone cuz I am gay too.. but I dont know the gay girlie well in my country mex.. the gay girlie is the stereotype u know they act like a girl or they dress like one.. but I dont know why these stereotypes are so popular as well I was checking some answers and they said the same thing the gay guys act like girls ..or lesbians act like man

WELL I am gay and I am looking for man o girls or pretending to be one

Answer 1

Because to show a stereotype is far more comfortable to the sheeples out there than showing that gay people are everywhere and that we could be the guys standing next to you in the bus que...

Media stereotypes are inevitable, especially in the advertising, entertainment and news industries, which need as wide an audience as possible to quickly understand information. Stereotypes act like codes that give audiences a quick, common understanding of a person or group of people—usually relating to their class, ethnicity or race, gender, sexual orientation, social role or occupation.

But stereotypes can be problematic. They can:
• reduce a wide range of differences in people to simplistic categorizations

• transform assumptions about particular groups of people into "realities"

• be used to justify the position of those in power

• perpetuate social prejudice and inequality

More often than not, the groups being stereotyped have little to say about how they are represented.

Any discussion of the portrayal of gays and lesbians on television must consider the commercial demands of the medium. In her article "Gay Activists and the Networks", Kathleen Montgomery discusses the process involved in creating a made-for-television movie that featured a gay character in a prominent role. Since the main objective of the movie was to reach as wide an audience as possible, various compromises were necessary:

• the story had to be told within the constraints of a popular television genre: the crime-drama

• the narrative had to focus on the heterosexual lead character and his interactions with gay characters

• the movie could not depict any scenes of affection between characters of the same sex

Montgomery concludes that "these requirements served as a filter through which the issue of homosexuality was processed, resulting in a televised picture of gay life designed to be acceptable to the gay community and still palatable to a mass audience."

If you actually presented it, as it really is it would cause way to many people to question there own relationships and this would be bad for revenue
So is far easier to jump to what is palatable by the wider audience.

If they really showed the diversity of gay people it would shock many that he could be the tow truck driver that took your car away the woman who granted you a loan at the bank ...its easier to see the stereotype but it will change in time as people get better educated.

hope this helps

Answer 2

If a man is acting feminine, do you ask if he is gay or do you just assume? Not all gay men act masculine and not all straight men do either. Same for women. If a woman dresses slutty in booty shorts and a tank top do you assume you can just tap that? (as if!) You base who is gay and lesbian off of stereotypes but ignore the others out there. There are 30 million LGBT people in the United States alone, the largest minority behind blacks.

Answer 3

Just like many say. It is easier to stick to the stereotype. If they knew how many gays are mainstream, they would have to reexamine their entire paradigm. Here is an example: I used to know a lifestyle lesbian. Very butch. But she was in the business world so she dressed straight. At the age of 55 she decided she wanted to try the hetero world. Guess what? She was sexy. A best friend of mine was as straight-looking as the macho cop on the beat. But he was as gay as he could be. As in, no way could he get turned on by women. Many more examples where that came from. I have found that the gay subculture is much more accepting than the dominant "hetero" one.

Answer 4

Stereotypes are created in order to justify cultural attitudes and behavior. They are exaggerated cartoons. They tell a culture how it is to feel about some of its own people. Stereotypes are like road signs. They flash on to tell us what to think and how to act. The stereotype of the movie star gives us one set of signals. The stereotype of the effeminate man or masculine woman gives us other signals. Not everyone responds to this kind of programming, but most do. The good news is: as a culture we can change these signals any time we want to. And if we all want a kind, just and tolerant society, then we need to begin changing them about gay and lesbian people right now.

Answer 5

those are the stereotypes that the media has long drummed into our heads....and they are nothing more than stereotypes! sure, there are some of us are like that, but the majority are not. it's all a matter of personal taste.
and not just homosexuals....I've met very feminine straight men and very masculine looking straight women.
I might not be the most feminine woman in the world, but not because I'm trying to be "like a man." I'm just not super girly.

Answer 6

The sterotype exists because it's very easy for the anti-gay folks to lump us all together as freakish. They'd rather not admit that gays cover the entire range of masculinity and femininity.

They do the same with blacks, jews, asians. It's merely that dumping on gays is still socially acceptable most places, the other groups no longer are socially acceptable.

Answer 7

i guess just bcoz the gay girlie so suppose mostly gay act like a girl but do you know a gay who don't act like a girl? im prettty sure there are but you can't see that unless you ask whether they're gay or not, so what im trying to say not all gay girlie or lesbian who acts like a man.

Answer 8

I think it might be becasue stereotypes are made uponpeople who are out of the ordinary .

the gay stereotypes date back decades ago ..

and I guess that when they saw a very butch girl and they found out she was a lesbian they applied it to every lesbian ..

and as for gay people .. the gay people we tend to notice the most are the ones who are very effeminate..

Answer 9

I think it's because the media always shows that side of homosexuality. If you see gay people on TV it always seems to be these types. I suppose it gives the straight population something that they enjoy watching. I think that there are lots of men who act like straight men and women the same..you just don't notice them the same.

Answer 10

They're stereotypes because it is something that people could easily use to put gays and nongays into groups. If the characteristics of gays were they act like normal guys and the characteristics of straights were they act like normal guys, they would hardly be useful tools to differentiate between them, now would they?