I don't mean a literal fascination either. More so, a cultural one.
For instance, growing up Peruvian like I did, you'd think some of this stuff was meant to make you more alpha, but it did not.
Told things like (if you don't do these things, you are possibly gay):
- Walk like a soldier
- Never laugh too loud
- Don't be picky with your clothes
- Don't spend more than a minute getting ready, only girls take longer
- Don't care about working out too much, stay in your room and do math in your spare time
- Only use cubic paper for doing math, each character/number must be assigned its own box
- Don't request contacts when you're old enough. Men don't care, and any pair of glasses should do.
- Don't ever touch your PP, only 'funny men' do that, meaning gay (my cousin was actually told this)
- Study math, science, or engineering only, everything else is for queers & women.
- Only call your male friends to say hello, no actual conversations with male friends, but you aren't supposed to talk to girls either...might have thoughts of using your PP then. You can a little bit (if it's related to school), but prepare to answer so many questions you'd rather not even bother just to avoid the awkwardness
It's like absolutely every facet of your life is weighed on this scale of gay vs. not gay. So many rules, and so many guys abide by them, it's like communism. You are also told to stay away from girls until you graduate college. We were 5 male cousins and the only experience we had with girls growing up was nothing, we'd only talk about them amongst ourselves - and we'd have to do so in secret.
Some guys may actually applaud this mentality is being alpha. It doesn't make you alpha, it makes you a submissive little bitch with no personality. You become shy because everything you do leads you to wonder if you are being perceived as gay. It's even worse if you want to dress well, be into style, and be cool. My cousins were pure nerds, still are. I never was, I actually fought this mentality, so it was seen as a problem.
In middle school, when my cousins (all of us about the same age) were still asking for Power Rangers and Star wars nerd shit, I was asking for clothes, not bugle boy crap either that was given to us. I'd specifically say I wanted guess jeans (back when they had the upside-down triangle). This was seen as surefire, complete, absolute, unmitigated homosexuality, and my aunt made a huge deal about it. On the ride home to Iowa from Wisconsin I received a 2 hour lecture on how Peruvian men don't care about clothes and that's for sissies and "funny men". You simply wear what is given to you, and show no preference. Same with food, if you like a certain food too much, that you mean dislike another, men don't show food preferences, only girls and "funny men" do.
I wanted one thing...to be better dressed than the guys in my school and hopefully become more popular, mainly because I was smaller & foreign in a white school. I knew girls would notice, they did, but it wasn't enough. At least I tried.
I will say, Hispanic culture (all of them) have an interesting of way of dealing with actual gay shit. They turn it into a joke. Almost all of Univision/Telemundo's humor is centered around a man in drag. Or a hyper-effiminate man acting gay.
We were told to watch "The Birdcage" one Thanksgiving (traditional Hispanics love these types of movies), only because it shows us what we will become if we don't start subscribing to the rules.
So, you're allowed to watch men in drag, as it's the culture's way of dealing with homosexuality, but the second you want to dress or look better, then you are gay yourself. There's a reason most Hispanic guys are nerds and really not that cool. There was never a choice in the beginning to be yourself.
I will say, some Hispanic countries, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay - generally are more advanced the the other Latin countries.
When you get into the more indigenous countries, the nerd quotient goes up exponentially. Even the guys who shouldn't be nerds, end up being nerds way too often.
I thought this might be interesting, and some of the Latin members could chime in.
For instance, growing up Peruvian like I did, you'd think some of this stuff was meant to make you more alpha, but it did not.
Told things like (if you don't do these things, you are possibly gay):
- Walk like a soldier
- Never laugh too loud
- Don't be picky with your clothes
- Don't spend more than a minute getting ready, only girls take longer
- Don't care about working out too much, stay in your room and do math in your spare time
- Only use cubic paper for doing math, each character/number must be assigned its own box
- Don't request contacts when you're old enough. Men don't care, and any pair of glasses should do.
- Don't ever touch your PP, only 'funny men' do that, meaning gay (my cousin was actually told this)
- Study math, science, or engineering only, everything else is for queers & women.
- Only call your male friends to say hello, no actual conversations with male friends, but you aren't supposed to talk to girls either...might have thoughts of using your PP then. You can a little bit (if it's related to school), but prepare to answer so many questions you'd rather not even bother just to avoid the awkwardness
It's like absolutely every facet of your life is weighed on this scale of gay vs. not gay. So many rules, and so many guys abide by them, it's like communism. You are also told to stay away from girls until you graduate college. We were 5 male cousins and the only experience we had with girls growing up was nothing, we'd only talk about them amongst ourselves - and we'd have to do so in secret.
Some guys may actually applaud this mentality is being alpha. It doesn't make you alpha, it makes you a submissive little bitch with no personality. You become shy because everything you do leads you to wonder if you are being perceived as gay. It's even worse if you want to dress well, be into style, and be cool. My cousins were pure nerds, still are. I never was, I actually fought this mentality, so it was seen as a problem.
In middle school, when my cousins (all of us about the same age) were still asking for Power Rangers and Star wars nerd shit, I was asking for clothes, not bugle boy crap either that was given to us. I'd specifically say I wanted guess jeans (back when they had the upside-down triangle). This was seen as surefire, complete, absolute, unmitigated homosexuality, and my aunt made a huge deal about it. On the ride home to Iowa from Wisconsin I received a 2 hour lecture on how Peruvian men don't care about clothes and that's for sissies and "funny men". You simply wear what is given to you, and show no preference. Same with food, if you like a certain food too much, that you mean dislike another, men don't show food preferences, only girls and "funny men" do.
I wanted one thing...to be better dressed than the guys in my school and hopefully become more popular, mainly because I was smaller & foreign in a white school. I knew girls would notice, they did, but it wasn't enough. At least I tried.
I will say, Hispanic culture (all of them) have an interesting of way of dealing with actual gay shit. They turn it into a joke. Almost all of Univision/Telemundo's humor is centered around a man in drag. Or a hyper-effiminate man acting gay.
We were told to watch "The Birdcage" one Thanksgiving (traditional Hispanics love these types of movies), only because it shows us what we will become if we don't start subscribing to the rules.
So, you're allowed to watch men in drag, as it's the culture's way of dealing with homosexuality, but the second you want to dress or look better, then you are gay yourself. There's a reason most Hispanic guys are nerds and really not that cool. There was never a choice in the beginning to be yourself.
I will say, some Hispanic countries, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay - generally are more advanced the the other Latin countries.
When you get into the more indigenous countries, the nerd quotient goes up exponentially. Even the guys who shouldn't be nerds, end up being nerds way too often.
I thought this might be interesting, and some of the Latin members could chime in.
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