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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 751254" data-attributes="member: 463">I didn't mean that Canadians are male chauvinist pigs - quite the opposite.  As demonstrated by what Fusangite said about Vancouver's many drag queens etcetera, most Canadians pride  themselves on their liberalism, perhaps to the point of political correctness.  it's more my perception that there's an insecurity about what constitutes acceptable heterosexual-male behaviour, and the limits of that behaviour seem more narrowly defined than in other, perhaps in some ways less liberal or 'gender aware' countries.  Traditionally, minorities such as gay men have tended to be stereotyped into pigeonholes of expected (and thus acceptable) behaviour - British television from the 1970s exemplifies this (oh shut that door!). <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I'm starting to form a thesis that perhaps in Vancouver (and no doubt elsewhere) the effect of a highly liberal consciousness has been, not to break down these pigeonholes, but rather to extend them so that straight men are similarly restricted?  I don't think this can be entirely the right explanation - I think traditional conservative American small town culture also strongly tends to compartmentalise people into specific groups, much more so than in British culture with our love of the eccentric.  Perhaps it's where this traditional attitude meets 'political correctness' (exaggerated sensitivities to gender/race) that the phenomenon starts.  I noticed on Buffy the Vampire Slayer recently that although it was ok for an apparent heterosexual to come out as homosexual (eg Willow), it was NOT ok for that stated-homosexual to show heterosexual inclinations ("You can't fancy HIM!  You're gay!") - because bisexuality crosses the neat compartmentalisations.  If anything bisexuality seems to have become _less_ acceptable (or even discussed) in recent years, as homosexuality has done the opposite.OK, enough trolling (if you think I'm trolling - I think this is kinda interesting...) <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I've known a lot</blockquote>

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