I've been thinking a lot about how society defines gender and sexual orientation. These things, like race, are really ingrained in our culture. From a very young age, we can label genders and know what attributes are supposed to go along with gender. As we grow up, we also attribute these things to sexual orientation. It's sad that things need to be so rigidly defined in a society that is supposed to be "open" and "free." Being gay doesn't mean that a man has feminine qualities, yet we constantly attribute "gay" to feminine and flamboyant. It seems almost second nature to do things like this.
Here's a clip that shows how young we begin to classify things like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWc1e3Nbc2g
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