If You Don’t Get Why Men Cringe At Flamboyant Gays, You Don’t Understand The Sexes

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If You Don’t Get Why Men Cringe At Flamboyant Gays, You Don’t Understand The Sexes
Hans Fiene


Recently, a video of a male cheerleader dancing with the ladies from the Minnesota Vikings cheer squad made the rounds on social media, receiving a rather hostile welcome. Perhaps because the Corporate Wokeness Epidemic has lost much steam in the last year or so, a gaggle of social media users began criticizing the rather flamboyant gentleman, pointing to him as a gross example of the NFL’s insistence on pushing its pro-LGBT agenda on fans who just want to watch their team in peace.

As is the way of social media, the reaction to the reaction came swiftly. Emily Leibert of The Cut referred to critics as “the most fragile members of the NFL’s fanbase.” Joe Nelson of Sports Illustrated lamented the “hate and disrespect” the two men on the Vikings cheerleader squad have received. Likewise, countless X users have insisted that the revulsion people have expressed over the viral clip is a nonsensical manifestation of bigotry towards gay men.

While I don’t think hardened progressives who would rejoice over drag queens gyrating on a football field are operating in good faith, I imagine that many who questioned the initial backlash are genuinely confused by it, in particular the many females who have spoken up. As any man who came of age while attitudes towards homosexuality and gay marriage began to change can tell you, women often struggle to understand the straight man’s response to rather flamboyant displays of performative homosexuality. The disgust strikes them as juvenile and mindless. But perhaps the Case of the Dancing Viking Cheerboy can offer such women some clarity.

“I don’t get it,” women will often think. “It wouldn’t bother me if a butch woman decided to play rugby with some guys. Why does it bother men so much if a gay guy wants to do girly stuff with the girls? Why do straight men respond to gay men this way when I don’t have that kind of reaction to gay women?”

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[DefiantMassRINO]

I don't give a fudge about football cheerleaders.  I'm there to watch a football game.

This sideline Non-sense is just an unncessary distraction.

If I want T & A, I'll go to strip club.  If guys wanna dress up as cheerleaders and pretend to be women, there are places for that, too.  I just don't care to see it on a football field.

Circus freak show tent liberals, just leave me alone and stop inserting your nonsense into my life.

[MeganC]

Football with the tight pants and men slapping each other on the ass is kind of gay anyway. May as well have a queerleader at the game. 

[mountaineer]

As a straight female, I also admit to "reacting" to flamboyant homosexuals. What they're doing is both sad and perverse, and I see no reason to pretend it's normal.

[Wingnut]

Some stereotypes are spot on.  And those two fairies dancing around like showfolk f*gs fit the bill.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Some stereotypes are spot on.  And those two fairies dancing around like showfolk f*gs fit the bill.

[Millee]

As a straight female, I also admit to "reacting" to flamboyant homosexuals. What they're doing is both sad and perverse, and I see no reason to pretend it's normal.

@mountaineer   I 100% agree with this. 

[Free Vulcan]

I like them about as much as butch women - it's all just so gay.

[Sighlass]

To me, Gays signal that they would have no-bars-sex with whatever thing floats their boat at the moment. Sex is their god...  Women/Men/Trees/Kids/Infants/Animals/Plastic Seaweed... doesn't matter and they want it known that anyone that doesn't condone it is the enemy. Their "marriages" are often just fronts while they pursue others while their "other" turns a blind eye and does the same. Aids is now a status symbol because they have found ways to control it so it is no longer feared (often at taxpayer expense). The "freedom" from children often lets them lead a life of pleasure pursuit until they get old and have nobody to take care of them. If rich enough, they turn to adoption to pollute the natural order of family systems that they spent a lifetime tearing down.

Yeah, they make me sick.

[jmyrlefuller]

Football is, inherently, a masculine sport. Of course, most sports tend to favor masculinity (is it any wonder why so many women's basketball and soccer players are lesbians?).

Cheerleaders have never particularly fit into that dynamic. Inasmuch as they've been successful (see: Dallas), it has mainly been as eye candy, for their femininity as a brand unto itself. Throw feminine men (or trans/nonbinary "women" as the case of that, um... whatever that is in Carolina) into the mix and you have this distinct sense of "this doesn't belong here."

That's a man... behaving in as unmanly of a way as you can imagine... in an environment that is designed to promote manliness. It just doesn't fit.

At the risk of falling into gender stereotypes that aren't always universal... that one is about as accurate as it gets.

[Smokin Joe]

I am reminded of a quote about ballet I heard was credited to George Bernard Shaw: "That's too much money to watch buggerers jump."

[deb]

I am reminded of a quote about ballet I heard was credited to George Bernard Shaw: "That's too much money to watch buggerers jump."

There’s a world of difference between those two “cheerleaders” and Mikhail Baryshnikov. Watching him dance, I never doubted his masculinity. Just sayin’. 

[Smokin Joe]

There’s a world of difference between those two “cheerleaders” and Mikhail Baryshnikov. Watching him dance, I never doubted his masculinity. Just sayin’. 

Perhaps, especially considering Baryshnikov had three children and was married to Lisa Reinhart (3 kids) and had one with Jessica Lange.

But no straight guy wiggles his butt like those cheerfellows.

[deb]

Perhaps, especially considering Baryshnikov had three children and was married to Lisa Reinhart (3 kids) and had one with Jessica Lange.

But no straight guy wiggles his butt like those cheerfellows.

To which all straight women say, “Thank you!”

[Smokin Joe]

To which all straight women say, “Thank you!”