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Posted by: Fleshjack
Someone that is flamboyant is obnoxious. I find things that are obnoxious annoying. This has nothing to do with gender or -blam!-ity. Just as much, I find people that talk "ghetto" annoying.
It has nothing to do with being racism, sexist, or homophpbic. Annoying things are annoying.Yes, FJ, it does. You were, as a matter of fact, raised in a culture that values hetero-blam!-ity and gender conformity. So much does our culture embrace these things, in fact, that other forms of expression are considered abnormal. And "abnormal" things, FJ, are often perceived as "annoying" because they clash with our understanding of what is normal.
Your annoyance at those who talk talk "ghetto" was, similarly, most likely borne of the normalization of what is traditionally considered the register of upper-middle-class white individuals over the preferred register of other groups. If such normalization did not exist, then it is extremely unlikely that you would find such speech annoying; you would simply find it to be another equally valid way of speaking the English language.
The problem, FJ, is not really that you find these things annoying. Rather, it is that you find it annoying but refuse to acknowledge that it is likely the result of societal standards of behavior that arbitrarily favor certain groups over others, and instead constantly seek the approval of others in a desperate and fallacious attempt to prove that your views are somehow not the result of the blind acceptance of prejudice.