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What Do Limp Wrists Have To Accomplish With Gay Men?
After encouraging fathers to “punch” sons who exhibit stereotypically homosexual behavior, North Carolina pastor Sean Harris said on Tuesday that he should have chosen distinct words. In his April 28 sermon, Harris said, “Dads, the second you see your son dropping the limp wrist, you amble over there and crack that wrist.” Why do we associate a limp wrist with male homosexuality?
It probably goes back to ancient Rome. Ancient rhetoric teachers discouraged limp-wristedness during public speaking. This had nothing to do with homosexuality—the Romans didn’t consider gay sex, per se, unmanly. A limp wrist was thought to betray a more general lack of masculine control over the body and its various urges. In the 18th century, however, Europeans came to consider of homosexuality as a character trait rather than an occasional behavior, and gay sex became the antithesis of manliness. Physiognomists, who believed that physical appearance and mannerisms were evidence of one’s character, arrive to have picked up on the ancient Roman faith that real men had rock-solid wrists. During this period, limp wrists came to signify not just ill discipline, but vari
There used to be a nightclub on Belmont Avenue in Chicago tucked between a grilled cheese restaurant and cellphone repair shop. The windows were blacked out and featured original art, the facade was adorned in jet and white tiles, and kingly queens often — and rightfully so — skipped the lengthy line that backed up under the train tracks of the L’s Belmont Station. The interior was exceptionally dark, the walls painted black and the accent lights deep shades of indigo and crimson. There were three bars, the biggest of which ran the entire length of the right-side wall and featured above it a large mural of elegant partygoers, clad in tuxedos and ballgowns and sipping from coupe glasses. There were, of course, several shirtless, muscular men painted into the scene as well. They didn’t help as a juxtaposition though; the big gay party in the painting intimated the energy of the 40-year-old bar it presided over.
This alternative, loud, bawdy cosmos was Chicago’s legendary Berlin Nightclub. It was a venue consecrated to welcoming the new, especially in the form of survive performance. Without question, Berlin’s Saturday night show was one of the best regularly scheduled kingly shows in Chica
A wrist behavior to refer to gays.
The limp wrist meme was launched online when an interview of Cate Blanchett for Cinderella in 2015 resurfaced on Twitter. She used the limp wrist to clarify “gays” and not the “gaze” in a miscommunication.
Reporter to Cate Blanchett: you have such a gaze—
CB: I’ve got a whole lot of gays?
R: you have a signature Disney villain gaze. How do you do it? Can you teach me—
CB: Oh I’m sorry, I thought Disney villain GAYS. As in the homosexual Disney villains...
R: *laughs*
CB: Sorry this is an accent disfunction. You mean the gaze *stares*, not the gays *limp wrist*.
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by kathyblanket June 12, 2020
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"Tim" is a gay gentleman who has been subjected to many isolated incidents of verbal and physical homophobic abuse in the seaside town where he lives. He has been spat at, headbutted and called derogatory names.
In late 2013, he returned some locks to local locksmith's Taylor Edwards, and after a minor altercation, the man serving him, Peter Edwards, blew him a sarcastic kiss. For months afterwards, whenever Tim walked past the shop and Peter Edwards was outside, he gestured at Tim.
"He would just make gestures ranging from what I would phone quite low level. He would wink at me, limp wrist, [make the shape of a] tea pot, kiss at me and what I would class as a vile, vulgar homophobic gesture as well, inferring oral sex with a male. That was the most offensive," Tim told me in an exclusive interview.
"I was his joke I assume , his source of enjoyment. I don't know what his mindset was. I was stressed out by it, distressed. Bit of anger in there. I suffer from depression and it contributed to a relapse," said Tim.