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He IS genuine, in his way. He's modeling a persona for his audience but it is also the one that he thinks best describes himself. Through theatricality, he can play the role with the plausible deniability of an actor to judge the audience's reaction, and his own, to this emerging flamboyant kid. That it is a performance doesn't make it any less genuine. Gay kids have been doing this forever. They know that they're treading on thin ice with the observer and want to be able to back away from their role if things get too bad, which has often meant violence. We're seeing complex evolutionary behavior here that has been taking place forever. Making it a performance makes it a survival strategy. When you look at human behavior through the prism of evolutionary biology, it provides all kinds of possible explanations for why it takes the forms that it takes. "Why are they trying out a persona if they already know they are going to be fabulous?" Because they have to work out the details and try on many different variations to find the model that fits. They don't have many adult role models for what they want to be, in most cases, to work from. This requires practice and iterations. "You cannot know that." Well, we generally can, since they almost always are gay when they are that level of effeminate. " the fact that boys experiment with other children, including with other boys, says nothing about whether they are gay or not. There are many more people who experimented with boys as a boy, than there are gays. Are you suggesting they are all closeted gays? Or what are you suggesting? " Well, it says SOMETHING about whether they are gay or not but is not determinative. My point with my personal anecdote is as a response to you saying that the kid would have had to have gotten the idea from somewhere else. I am pointing out that kids can be fully capable of coming up with things entirely on their own. |