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Tyra Banks conducts a gay social experimentEver wonder what it would be like if the LGBT community ruled the world? Well, GLAAD Award-winner Tyra Banks wondered too, so yesterday on her show she conducted a little "social experiment" called "The Gay Kingdom."
(I'm going to use the labels each participant gave his or herself for the sake of simplifying this post.) Six members of the LGBT community — who identified themselves as: "masculine gay man," "transgendered woman," "butch lesbian," "drag queen," "feminine gay man," "bisexual man," and "lipstick lesbian" — volunteered to vote on and role play a LGBT social hierarchy, and discuss the results on Tyra's show. With a few exceptions, their assessment of one another's sexuality was surprisingly harsh. The task of The Gay Kingdom was to assign the following roles to each of the participants: king, queen, pauper, jester, cook, villain, concubine. (You know, to make it as applicable to the real world as possible.) It was conflict from the word "go" when Hedda Lettuce, the drag queen who took on the role of moderator, asked who deserved to be king. Michael, the masculine gay man, said he was the stereotypical king figure. Sam, the butch lesbian, argued that she should be king because she is able to show both strength and vulnerability. Jasen, the bisexual man, said he should be king because he is at the "top of the totem pole." The more masculine gay man received the most votes, and was made king.
The role of queen was just as hotly debated. The feminine gay man, the lipstick lesbian and the drag queen all wanted to take on the position. The lipstick lesbian, who ultimately won the most votes, said she should be queen because she is what society perceives as normal. "Yeah, let's just go with what society perceives as normal," Sam, the butch lesbian, said, rolling her eyes. Hedda Lettuce, the drag queen, echoed her sentiment: "Frankly, I'm shocked that we've gone for this very traditional, heterosexual version of what this thing should be. We are gay people; look at us!" The other roles were doled out as follows: Sam, the butch lesbian, was made villain; Hedda Lettuce, the drag queen, was voted jester; Michael, the feminine gay man, was relegated to kitchen duty as cook; Jasen, the bisexual man, was chosen as the pauper; Sasha, the transgendered woman, was made concubine. Things got really uncomfortable after a commercial break when Tyra had the participants on a panel to discuss their pre-recorded experience. The fictional Gay Kingdom was ready-made for conflict, because who wouldn't choose queen over concubine? Sadly, the participants wasted no time slinging around stereotypes and harsh words back in the real world.
Nearly every participant took a shot at the bisexual man, telling him that he just needed to pick a team already. Sam, the butch lesbian, called him "confused," to which he responded: "Then, as a member of the GLBT community, you should be ashamed of yourself." Everyone but the butch lesbian had harsh words for the drag queen, saying that she was just a clown in a costume, which was weird, considering that the drag queen had been nothing but eloquent and empathetic to everyone in the Gay Kingdom. When Tyra asked Sam, the butch lesbian, why she thought she'd been made villain, she said, "They saw me as a threat. To be who I am right now, I have to have the strength and the courage to be like this 100% every day." Tyra noted that feminine gay men are often represented on television, but it's very rare to see a butch lesbian portrayed. Hedda Lettuce jumped in with an assessment: "Feminine lesbians, it's easy for men to fantasize about. Masculine lesbians, they go, 'She can fix my car, but oh my God, don't come near me!'" Kayden, the lipstick lesbian, came under fire for persisting on calling herself a "straight lesbian." She explained it like this: "Once you look at me, I don't classify as a butch or masculine or anything. You look at me, and guys will hit on me, you know what I mean? Not knowing that I'm a lesbian, and because I am lipstick, I tend to hang out with the same type of girls like myself. We like to wear dresses, get our hair and makeup done." She insisted that at the end of the day, she was going home with a girl, but if she needed to trick people into thinking she is straight to get ahead, she would happily do so. Watching the show was like watching two friends breakup on Facebook: You can't look away, but the entire time that you're reading the passive-aggressive status updates you're thinking, "shouldn't you be doing this in private." While I appreciate the dialogue a show like this could open up, something about it rang false. First, the sample was way too small to be indicative of an entire populace. Second, the LGBT community certainly has stereotypes and social capital issues, but on the whole I have found it to be a warm and accepting place. And third, if Tyra Banks really created a Gay Kingdom, you absolutely know she'd make herself the ruler. What are your thoughts on The Gay Kingdom? Submitted by on April 28, 2009 - 1:00pm. |
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let's just hope there'd be
let's just hope there'd be more people we could vote from than just those six powerhungry egotists should there ever be a gay kingdom!
trying this experiment with 6 attention whores that just want their 15 minutes of fame was a disaster from the get go. but then again conflict and drama equals ratings. what else is the show about?
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Um, man that was disturbing
Um, man that was disturbing to READ about! I'm sure it was even more disturbing to watch!
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*eyetwitch*
Oh Tyra
woah
i'm suprised that they turned on each other and started calling eachother names.
tyra needs a new topic besides the LGBT community it's getting annoying.
i want to see this episode for myself.
hmph
*sigh*
I think Tyra imagines herself to be the modern-day B.F. Skinner. Sadly, her "social experiments" are just to scintillate. Sociology is an actual science with structure and rigor.
I think it would have been more compelling to create a bizarro gay world. Place a straight couple in a "gay community" where all the respresentation of desire and love are same-sex and have them interact for a weekend. When they hold hands or hug, have people whisper and stare. Have them go through a school day being alternately ignored and bullied. I think that "Gay Kingdom" would service the typical Tyra audience better than watching LGBT folks be petty.
When I saw the headline
wow this is sad and enraging
While it may seem revolutionary at a glance, seven members of the GLBTQ community on daytime television, ready to confront stereotypes, it was actually the opposite.
This essentially served to uproot and replant.. actually confirming every preconceived stereotype our heteronormative society has to offer.
Oh what a perfect world: The King should be defined by masculinity and power, the queen by seductive allure and disciplined beauty, the jester should be someone to laugh at, the kitchen duty is obviously a very feminine role.... oh great, now that the glbt community has succesfully conformed to and reaffirmed gender roles we can all get back to our heteronormative living. maybe lgbt werent such a threat to society afterall!?
furthermore, the dragqueen is seen as a 'clown', essentially a complete joke, which is not only alarming, but completely ignorant. and we even have a 'fake' lesbian, or sorry, 'straight' lesbian, just to ensure feminine characteristics and lesbian never go hand in hand comfortably. what a complete fucking embarrasment.
we should be embracing our differences, celebrating the fact that we can break down gender barriers. that we dont need to define ourselves as kings or queens, or fit somewhere in a binary world.
What they should of done was attempt to show people how they dont immediately fit the stereotypes you may think of when you hear 'butch lesbian' or 'trangender woman'. They should of broke down those walls, instead of attempting to break eachother down
And the attacks on the bisexual!? If i keep writing this I'm going to lose it. they should all feel ashamed. fucking ashamed.
Thanks
You covered most of what I was thinking, so thanks for saving me a lot of typing.
I must be naive because I thought they would have based their role decisions on their individual attributes of leadership.
Glad I was busy and missed the show. Sounds just awful.
Sloppy....
I agree as well, and to add to that:
" I love the gays and the gays love me" - Tyra Banks (Being Gay Is Hard)
"Social Experiment" - so many flaws!
Excuse me, I have to be frank. Though I know Tyra does a service for the LGBTQ community by bringing forth issues that occur, but I believe it is a disservice when she and her producers do a SLOPPY job in doing it. Yes, their are issues in the LGBTQ community, as within others. If you are going to tackle / understand subject of this magnitude, at least put in the time and effort it takes to do so, not for a 45 minute show. Otherwise, move on to a different topic. Don't get me wrong, Tyra has had some credible shows centered around the LGBTQ community, i.e. (Being Gay Is Hard), but let's not forget "Is Everyone A Little Bit Gay" episode and others. Using important issues for entertainment purposes rather than for educating, was another missed opportunity.
Also, I know that the participants on the show did a disservice as well, but Tyra has the final say so, therefore , I feel she is reponsible.
" True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united" ~ Wilhelm von Humbolt
Wow, thanks
because you said the rest of what I was thinking...
And, I do think it is hard for anyone to present about subject matter that is not them, and likely creates an unawareness of just how erroneous and harmful the presentation gets.
Because I have faith in Tyra Banks I hope she reflects on this show and addresses the errors of it.
Yes
What is up with Tyra?
"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."
Sticking up for Tyra...
Stereotypes
As a dyke of color I have often been told I hafta choose AG or Fem, otherwise I have been called a pancake. I never heard that term until a "fem" gurl told me I flip flopped in between masculinity and femininity and I needed to just choose one. *rolls eyes*. Unfortunately this was not the last time I was told I had to choose. It's so sad that we in the GLBT community have to discriminate amongst ourselves. Sometimes gay men snub me cause I won't let them dress me up like a doll and I don't like Katy Perry *shrug* Hey. I found my love. I will volunteer and fight for the rights of the LGBT community but I will not listen to bickering nonsense of who's better and how we should act. Now we're letting the Heteros see our weakness. Remember: United we Stand Divided We Fall
Exactly!
"The Gay Kingdom"? wtf.
What kind of "social experiment" is this? This is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. This is why people hate Tyra Banks..
The Worst of Us
The gay population may not hate drag queens, butch lesbians and bisexuals, but fears that those are the three that sort of fufill the stereotypes that the dominant culture has about all gays.
The dominant culture thinks all gay men want to be women, all gay women want to be men, and the whole lot of us are bisexuals that could choose to be straight if we wanted...and that's the part the DC has trouble accepting. Like if it wasn't for those three we'd be fine. And those that can pass will turn on the rest in the blink of an eye if it would mean the DC would accept them.
I think it mostly showed how LGBT people think the dominant culture wants us to behave. If we judge ourselves in a way that pleases the dominant culture and condemn our own stereotypical members, maybe they'll accept us. This is the face we want to show to the outside.
I think the experiment would turn out totally differently if the participants believed it would never be shown to a straight audience.
rubbish
The whole thing sounds like rubbish. Personally I think there are way more than just the 6 labels that they used in the show. And who did the voting? The audience or the LGBT characters? Tyra may have won a GLAAD award but I am not sure she is doing much for our community by having a segment called The Gay Kingdom.
If you want to make it interesting, let only an LGBT audience vote on who plays what roll. Also let them assign the labels that will be used, granted I am sure there would be a whole lot more, but at least it would be more interesting that way.
This in no way should have
Stereotypical?
I agree that the audience played too much of a factor.
One bone to pick though...they were typical LGBT people, not stereotypical.
I'd argue that.
Maybe not mainstream stereotypical because alot of our society sees lgbt as one big gay homologous group. Femmy gay men and butch dykes right?
however, labels like 'butch' 'feminine' 'masculine' etc are infused with stereotypes. In fact.. they are stereotypes.
Butch Lesbian vs. Lip Stick Lesbian.. are you telling me that these are not stereotypes? Because 98% of the lesbians I know do not fit into either of those categories, at least not comfortably, yet the assumptions and expectations those labels provide are pinned to them regardless.
A masculine gay man, and a feminine gay man? Those are stereotypes as well. As if butch and femme homosexuals, male or female, are designed to perfectly fit our gender segregated society. So the gay man who has 'feminine' qualities must then exhibit all of the characteristics that are considered (stereotypically) innately feminine. He must want to be the one to do the dishes...
I think the entire thing was littered with stereotypes, labels, and misconceptions.
I am butch
I am a butch lesbian and I am telling you that I am not a stereotype. Yeah, I just made it personal.
The assumption is the stereotype. But it's not my fault that people think 98% of the lesbians you know are just like me.
And I'm pretty damn sure that more than 2% of lesbians are butch.
How they assigned the hierarchy? Yeah those were based on stereotypes. Although, I could be the villain.
I'm not wicked butch though...like soft butch. But in any event, I know hard butches and some people also have the stereotypical view that all butch lesbians are hard butch or stone butch. Butch and femme gays are just fine and typical members of the gay population.
yes
Yes thats what I mean. The people themselves are not stereotypes, the way they are categorized and the roles they were put into are.
You classify yourself as a 'butch' but wouldn't you like to assume you are more dynamic than a single label can account for?
I understand there is a very significant part of culture that calls for labels like that, and I am absolutely not saying that being butch, or femme, or even gay, is something to avvoid being called or be ashamed of. In fact, it can be claimed as a compliment. And I did not mean that <2% of the population of lesbians are butch, what I'm saying is that lesbians are not a binary homolgous group which can be so easily segregated into one category or another. You say youre butch, and so if I identify as butch we are then put into a very distinct category which I think, is far too simple. As you and I have obvious differences, and they should be celebrated, not ignored. So perhaps I could be the jester and you could be the villain if you prefer, even if we are both butch. we dont have to play a certain role.
In conclusion, what bothers me is definitely the placement. It is a stereotype to assume that because the gay man is feminine he should be placed in the kitchen, and that only a masculine male figure could be king - the ultimate ruler, why does the ultimate ruler have to have masculine characteristics at all? why is masculinity always equated with power? Isn't that just reaffirming patriarchy.. in a surprisingly traditional sense?
Words are simple
In the end I think these people just did what the thought the audience expected them to do...maybe not on purpose, but subconsciously.
It's just that sometimes when we talk about stereotypes people start saying things that makes it sound as if those who do happen to fit a stereotype are a problem...as though they are the cause of the stereotype in the first place.
I really don't have any problems with labels. If someone asks me why I don't want to wear a dress, I can just say I'm butch instead of going into some long detailed explanation of gender expression about how I'm really androgynous/soft butch/tomboy 50/50 masculine/feminine. Why, when I can just say butch?
Words are all about simplifying. I.E. "Love" Is anything more complicated? It's just a word, and a short one at that. And it's a label for the most complicated of human emotions that sometimes seems far too big to conveyed in single syllable.
Words are simple
and in my mind too simple. Language is seen as a neutral medium through which reality passes, but without it our conceptions and communication of reality dont exist. So our language is our reality, and my reality is different from your reality, so how can one language set be sufficient to describe both?
Alls I'm saying is that I'm tired of exactly that, the compression and categorization of diversity into singular concepts for the convenience of communication. Male or Female. Butch or Femme. Straight or Gay.
I don't mind when a person finds a label works for them, or even fits preconceived ideas those labels imply, and it obviously isn't realistic to eliminate them altogether. I just don't like that disclusion from one category automatically places the person in question into the opposing category, as if, to exist, you must be one or the other, you must choose, or it will be chosen for you. and having chose, you must execute with a series of behavior that coincides with that label. thats why homosexuality was considered so deviant to begin with, because it pushed the boundaries of a gender segregated world, if you don't conform to your assumed role, you must be socially deviant.
for you to say you are 50/50 is furthering my point, I dont like that you have to be one, or the other, or this.. mix. Why can't you just be neither? And obviously if you don't find a conflict with this in your own life I am not trying to force it upon you, I am just attempting to express my own frustration with a binary world, and that words are infused with assumptions and expectations.
(p.s. if i have offended you at any point throughout, I sincerely appologize, it was not my intention)
Words...can also complicate.
Some people do feel that they are neither, but that is different from being 50/50.
I don't feel as though masculine and feminine negate each other. They coexist. They don't have to be in opposition, but can exist in harmony. Conflict is created when one is valued more highly than the other.
Communication is essential to the human experience. We are social animals. And as a people trying to gain equality, to be valued as equals, we must be able to communicate effectively and be succinct.
The gay population is a unique class of people in that it was created by the dominant culture discriminating against those who deviate from the dominant culture. We are individuals grouped together because we are affected by the same kind of discrimination.
In truth gender identity is different from sexual orientation, but we are grouped together because we're discriminated against for essentially the same reason. But the only way to fight that discrimination is for all of us to come together under a label, an identity, put it forth as a class of people who deserve equal status, treatment and protection under the law and in society.
The argument then is yes, we are different, we do deviate but that is no reason to treat us as less than equal because we are still human. We have to be able to argue that being butch, femme, gay, bisexual, straight are all human characteristics like blonde, brunette, short or tall so that in 100 years from now they might be thought of in that way.
What we are trying to do with these labels is add them to the list of characteristics a human being can have and still be considered a human being of equal value. That people with these different characteristics can coexist without conflict.
People do have the ability to comprehend that not all tall people are exactly 6 feet tall and that there are infinate shades of blonde and brunette. We could have a similar argument over whether or not 5'6 should be considered "tall" for a woman since 5'3 is the average height, but in my opinion that would be a great big waste of time.
The more people identify as butch, femme, gay, bisexual etc, the harder it is for people to create stereotypes based on those labels. If a person knows two women that identify as butch lesbians and sees that they are in fact different, that is what changes their perception of what a butch lesbian is. By identifying with those labels we control the definition of those labels.
ah yap
I definitely agree with your point about the conflict only being existent when one label is valued more highly than another, because a label can only be bad in comparison to another. there is no way to be powerful without another being powerless.but furthermore, without the concept of heterosexuality, or normality, the concepts of homosexuality or deviance cannot exist. While I understand these can positively coexist, it hasn't seemed to happen yet. One will always be considered different from the norm. and while it might be accepted for being different, it will never be considered the same.
and I absolutely agree with that. The more people that do attach a label to themselves will add diversity to that label. I guess the issue for me was other people attaching a label to someone else, not necessarily that person identifying as that label.
It's exactly how lesbians were only considered butch women because people think gay, they think a particular sex exhibiting traits of the opposite gender, and so butch was then equated with lesbian, even though butch women are not necessarily gay, and gay women are not necessarily butch. so to see a butch woman was to point and say lesbian, and femme lesbians were something men could consider for their own enjoyment, not accepted as being actual lesbians. But as more and more people openly identify as being gay, the label is diversified.
which is exactly why people do need to come together, having been grouped into the same category. which just wraps around to why this whole thing pissed me off in the first place. my original comment was about the way these people mistreated eachother, and forced negative assumptions upon eachother, when they should be supportive of eachother.
like people of the LGBT community reinforcing the negative assumptions about bisexuality, calling it a choice but then at the same time, trying to reinforce the idea that their own sexuality was not a choice. i just think, if we're going to be pinned under the same label, and rejected by a heteronormative society in the same way, we can atleast accept our diversity within, embrace our differences, and quit eating our own.
What ever happened to not judging a book by its cover?
I can't say I saw the episode, but you did mention voting was involved, yes?
Well, I can see how it would be hard to be taken seriously when Tyra puts a bunch of stereotypical LGBTQ community members on stage. It would seem that the audience voting was based more on preconceived notions of each stereotype rather than who the person who falls under each "category" is.
Realistically, the person with the greatest leadership potential should have fallen under king and queen, and, while I do not, and cannot, discount the potential of those who were chosen, it does seem odd that the roles chosen for each figure in the kingdom seemed appearance-based. If the drag queen was the most eloquent, why should it matter that she sports a wig with green streaks? Eloquence was never, in my opinion, something possessed by court jesters.
I think the audience lost sight of the fact that this is was meant to be a gay kingdom, not a hokier version of Tudors.
oh please.
Ha! Sooo true.
What are "Stereotypical" LGBT People
Interesting and ironic that people are referring to them as stereotypical and not just typical.
Drag queens are your typical member of the gay population. They exaggerate, but they're not a stereotype. A stereotype is a view that someone else has of a people.
I.E. If someone thinks that all or most gay men are drag queens, that would be a stereotype. But the drag queen herself is not the stereotype.
People saying they don't want "stereotypical" LGBT characters is how we end up with no butch lesbian characters.
There's a difference
There's a difference between the verb 'to stereotype' and the noun 'stereotype' as I think it's being used here. The word comes from a cast copy from a mould; a stereotype is the generic example of something. The reason there are lesbian stereotypes of femme and butch is because a lot of lesbians conform to those types. People don't like others stereotyping all lesbians as either femme or butch because not all lesbians ARE femme and butch, but that doesn't mean that none of them are, or that just because they're a stereotype their identity is less valid.
Having said that, I don't think femme and butch are typical anymore. They're gender-related identities, and gender and sexual orientation are only really linked by society. I think ideally we'd all like to live in a world where the gender we are born, and the attributes we express (feminine or masculine), and the sexual orientation we have, bear no correlation to each other in anybody's view.
Skeptical...
I can't help but wonder how they found/chose their participants. I've seen Hedda Lettuce before on Project Runway so she isn't exactly new to tv. This doesn't necessarily mean anything, but it isn't as if NYC has a short supply of drag queens so I would be surprised if it was a coincidence. Far above their desire to do a social experiment is the producers desire for an audience, and happy harmonious lgbt-ers aren't nearly as titilating. Even if none of this is scripted or outlined I would be surprised if the producers didn't intentionally choose people they thought might play this scenario out.
reinforcing the hierarchy
the problem with this experiment was that they had to place themselves/each other within a social hierarchy. The whole point is there SHOULDN'T BE A HIERARCHY, but I think they all missed that. And off course everyone's going to want to be king and queen, that's human nature.
They could have talked about it in a different way :/
No Thanks
Phew, I'm just glad that I wasn't on there, or I really would have been in the firing line^^
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I agree with Malinda Lo...
Reading this was so utterly disappointing. I mean, I understand that Tyra does what she can as a cog in the media machine, including LGBT indentified people in her shows in the same context (of ridiculosity) as any other participant. It just pained me that this "social experiment" is going to be a point of reference on the LGBT community for all of her viewers.
First of all, I think the idea of insisting a social hierarchy is so subversive and counter productive in trying to actually educate each other about LGBT viewpoints and issues. I know she did the same thing for a "social experiment" involving a group of women who worked in different aspects of the sex industry, however, to insinuate there is some kind of valence or hierarchy of value based on your gender or sexual identity is exactly what we SHOULDN'T be trying to do. It only perpetuates the idea that gender and sexual identitiy norms are also qualifying, but we all know that just because you fall into a realm closer to the social norm of being heterosexual, doesn't mean you're any better than anyone else.
Secondly, I think it's fair to say that even within the LGBT(QIAPP) community there is a tendency for us to segregate ourselves because one section of the community sees themselves as better than the other. I know that even I sometimes begin to define myself by qualities or even struggles that are inherent to being a lesbian. And sometimes I get caught up in thinking "well, they just don't understand, they don't know," but really, how is that useful thinking at all? Just because I have certain experiences as a young lesbian woman doesn't depreciate (or have any affect at all) anyone else's experiences, no matter what letter of the alphabet they identify with.
What should matter is that we, as a community outside of most social norms, are being consistently judged, misunderstood, segregated and mistreated out of ignorance. And it's not just an "us vs. them" issue. It's an all around ignorance where we struggle with the basic act of wanting to connect and better understand each other as people.
awkward? all the time...
Geez.
The "Butch Lesbian"
Hey Guys... Sam from the taping yesterday! Couldn't believe the responds by the gay commuinty. Just remember guys...It's all T.V.
Much Love
Sam
Welcome!
Hi Sam! Welcome to AE!
I think popular culture shapes society as much as it is shaped by society so, to paraphrase Socrates, I think the unexamined television show is not worth watching.
Nice paraphrasing!
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Ugh.
True but one thing.. The
besides being totally rediculous
Besides being totally rediculously and not anywhere near what one would expect for a true social experiment, it's flawed even in it's tiny number of participants. I mean right off the bat it's a pretty gender uneven group. Why wasn't there at the very least a trans man and a bisexual woman?
It's so for the show.... because in the queer community we can, amongst ourselves at least, read these titles in a queer, or not straight, way.... meaning we could find more pleasure being a court jester than a king.... and if we are confronted with a trans woman, a drag queen, a feminine gay man, and a lipstick lesbian, we can simply choose based on the individuals we have before us and who is most queeny, not which category they come from....
That said, it's beyond me how a drag queen wouldn't be ripping Trya's hair out to take her Queen title.... I mean they both are such queens really.... and a lipstick lesbian would have been made a cook as it's one of the least disruptive roles, that or the concubine because she'd be the most sexualized besides the trans woman...... the efeminate gay man might have faught for the cook position and taken absolutely no interest in many of the other roles.... and the Butch lesbian seems more likely to me to be the king, while the masculine man either the concubine or the vilan, as he is only sexually devilish....
So it really depends on wether we are categorizing how they are percieved and significant in the context of the straight community, or how they are percieved within the LGBT community...
So why bother trying to place the LGBT community into a heirarchy that is only true in a straight community, and in the context of a straight primarily talk show and expect anyone to know which perspective to come from?
I mean in the LGBT community maybe the concubine is on top, then the jester second in rank, then the vilan third, then the cook, then the queen, and so on..... to the lowest ranking....
I mean if anyone doesn't think being a jester doesn't put you at the top in the LGBT community, just take a look at Ellen Degeneres....
I'm just saying.... WTF but Whatever!
Who died and made Tyra Banks...
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Queen of the Gays,especially since she won a GLAAD award. Just come out Tyra and stop obessing over the Gays. Here's my psychological perspective about the the Tyra Banks show:Trya is a down-low sister trying to figure out how to come out to the world so she uses her "subjects" as experiments to see how. At the end, she's humiliating herself and the entire LGBTQI community. Great work GLAAD, I'm sure you could have picked a better closeted media person than that to win an award.
This picture is actress Paula Patton, the R&B/Soul RobinThicke's wife. She played in Deja Vu,Idelwild and Rush Hour 3. So it's not me.
gay social experiment
With any social experiment, there are certain constants in human behavior that get filled and throw off correlations to reality (i.e.: with a social experiment of 2 people, one will be more something than the other and vice versa. As the number of participants grow, the number of stereotypical attributions grows also, and people tend to choose one and then stick to that label through the course of the study, which may not be their personality in their natural environment).
Six people in any social experiment is not enough to get an accurate scope of information, and especially six from the LGBT community which has a very broad spectrum of people, personalities, viewpoints because the LGBT community puts an emphasis on individualism and not conforming to what may be considered "social norms".
It bothers me greatly that the members of this group essentially recreated reality into this fantasy (reality being a hyper-stereotyped misogynistic idealism). Perhaps what crippled the end result was the defensive individualism, rather than constructive. Had they looked at each individual, rather than each role, they may have gotten a much different result.
Yet again, society proves that labels suck.
Everything about this disgusted me.
oh tyra
she wants so badly to reach oprah status but really she's barely even ricky lake
its my responsibilty to show emotion in my life
cuz otherwise it seems i'm going through the motions with my life
Didn't Tyra Banks pulls some bs like this a few weeks ago...
that just reinforces why some people shouldn't be allowed to reproduce just because they canlet them be because they will find out soon enough the error of their ways.