Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Sewing Classes
When I posted the comment two friends of mine that are hipsters immediately liked the post. Then some other guy said that he was excited for me so that I could teach him how to do it. A girl commented "I always knew you were gay." Then another girl told me that "You've changed." So basically it obviously has become more accepted but not completely. I feel that nowadays some guys are very concerned with their clothes and how they look and some girls like this and others don't.
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I think it says something that your friends felt it was okay to tease you about being gay for wanting to sew. Clearly, it's not socially acceptable enough for them to take you seriously.
I literally laughed when I saw that some of your friends made gay references. It's funny how set in stone gender codes can be.
Obviously sewing = gay right?! That's interesting though that one guy said he wanted to learn and then the other said, "I always knew you were gay." Conflicting messages.
I think it is more socially accepted in a broader society level, but in a closer level people still judge and think you might be somewhat gay.
I think that most people would think the status was a joke or that the status was meant as a shock factor. It seems to be accepted for men to participate in female activities if it already fits their personality.
I think that most were making fun of the comment or they might have not taking it seriously
i think it's interesting how your indy friends find sewing classes to be acceptable. indy kids are definitely more conscientious of their clothing choices.
Obviously guys are getting more responses to their sewing post than women are getting to kickboxing. Maybe the negative response from women is because women want the masculine, provider. And they make an assumption that if he is interested in sewing, he might not be that masculine provider.
That's interesting that the idea of gay was so prominent among the responses to the sewing question. It must be associated with almost a de"man"izing type of loss of power. I didn't realize sewing was still so strictly viewed as a purely female activity.
I think the most interesting thing is that the girls are the ones who shot it down and the guys seemed into it.
I agree with the point that some guys are more concerned about the clothes that they wear and that girls in general do like a well dressed man.
While that one girl said a gay comment, I think it is much more open and "hip" in culture today to cross-over to the other gender's activities.
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