Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Comic truth

If you watch ethnic group comedians playing to their own group, you can discover that a lot of what is held to be heinous stereotypes when asserted by outsiders, is just common knowledge for the insiders. It's only on that basis that the audience can laugh. Comedians are applauded for telling truths that critics get pilloried for saying.

Gerard P Donelan published a bunch of all-too-true gay cartoons. One book (1987) is called Drawing on the Gay Experience. Voila.





I'm afraid that the hypermale exterior and the teenage ladygirl interior, pictured above, is still all too common.

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