by sfhole2stretch » September 14th, 2011, 9:02 am
Clearly the author thinks it's for real. Sadly however it is painfully obvious from the file descriptions they were written by a straight person. The business about affectations (lisp, talking with hands, emotional, bitchy ....) is ludicrous stereotype and I would think would make it more difficult to convert someone. It would seem to me the key to this type of transformation would be making the subject feel as comfortable as possible with being gay. Therefore it would be counter-productive to assign or create behaviors that are contrary to their natural selves. Creating the ability for someone to see themselves as "gay" sexually within the context of who they already are without added superficial affectations would be easier, more effective and would stand a far better chance of permanence than trying to turn someone into a swish especially if that is not in their normal nature.
Straight people seem to think all gay people have or wish to have these ridiculous stereotypical affectations. The fact is most gay men don't have these affectations nor want them. We are all capable of putting them on when it serves a purpose (usually humor) but they are not what identifies me as a person and certainly not what makes me gay. I don't enjoy most of the "gay" files on the site for expressly this purpose.
Conversely it would be ridiculous to assume the reverse file "forced straight" would have to include macho imagery, sports, dude talk, homophobia, misogyny, etc. Straight men are not all like that any more than gay men are all swishy, femmy, lispers.
I'm not swishy or femmy nor do lisp yet I'm a gay man. I like men and yet I don't detest women. I don't want to have sex with them at all but neither to they repulse me. It simply isn't necessary to achieve the aim. I think all those who incorporate the typical stereotypical nonsense in their files are doing themselves and their subjects a huge disservice.