I find it fascinating. But my BA is in Sociology, so I would. I also completed my Japanese minor partly by writing about the cultural significance of the yaoi genre, and why it's read mainly by women over there.
Interestingly, you see something similar when straight women go out in a large gaggle to bars and clubs, except in that case the gatekeeper is often the most "femmey" one, i.e., the one in the shortest skirt and lowest-cut shirt. SHE evaluates all comers and determines who gets to talk to the rest of her friends for the night. They're usually called rude things like "cockblocks" by the guys, but the other girls in the group seem to think this is the natural way of things. Straight girls often have one queer guy in their group of "best friends" that go clubbing together, but for some reason I've never seen the guy get pushed into the gatekeeper position, although I have very occasionally seen the female gatekeeper tell off some idiot who is harrassing him.
Anecdotally I gather the straight guys work in groups of two -- primary hunter and his "wingman", which terminology is taken from WWII Air Force/RAF slang -- but since I hang out with geeks I really don't see this happen.
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Date: 2006-06-14 08:51 am (UTC)Interestingly, you see something similar when straight women go out in a large gaggle to bars and clubs, except in that case the gatekeeper is often the most "femmey" one, i.e., the one in the shortest skirt and lowest-cut shirt. SHE evaluates all comers and determines who gets to talk to the rest of her friends for the night. They're usually called rude things like "cockblocks" by the guys, but the other girls in the group seem to think this is the natural way of things. Straight girls often have one queer guy in their group of "best friends" that go clubbing together, but for some reason I've never seen the guy get pushed into the gatekeeper position, although I have very occasionally seen the female gatekeeper tell off some idiot who is harrassing him.
Anecdotally I gather the straight guys work in groups of two -- primary hunter and his "wingman", which terminology is taken from WWII Air Force/RAF slang -- but since I hang out with geeks I really don't see this happen.