To briefly pseudo-play along in order to rebut your thesis, the appeal of hip-hop is generally rooted in its hypermasculinity as an art form
So I would think the normalization, if it was happening, would entail showing kids you can be macho and clouted and still love men (which is sweet)
Not enticing them to act “feminine” against their “uninfluenced” desires
If you have a bunch of kids acting sweet (other meaning, which I incidentally learned from a Black middle school English teacher, now deceased, that worked with my mom), youre going to have to show your work a lot more to prove that hip-hop allegedly caused this
Hip hop has been filled with all types of unexplainable weird stuff these past ten years that we haven’t been able to question because “what’s wrong with being feminine in the first place” lol
By 2015 the youth styles were closer to now than the baggy pants Wayne era or whatever would be considered masculine dress. I think you were kinda behind in the times in that year g
I think America, especially black men indulge in hyper masculinity, so a lot of seemingly normal things, can easily get you labelled as gay. Like it's jokes, but there are niggas who seriously will not eat hotdogs, or bananas in front of other men, or even period.
I've heard something as basic as Facetiming another man, be considered a gay act. That's just amongst ourselves as men that will say these things.
women indulge in this homophobia/hyper masculinity as well. I personally have been asked if I was gay because I wasn't giving a certain woman any attention. Women will call a nigga gay for wanting to hang out with his boys. Like you can't win anymore
All in my page suckin d***
Under my comments and screaming my name
I find it so hilarious that bro dissed his own fans for no reason
I'm an outlaw (I'm an outlaw)
Quick on the draw (quick on the draw)
Somethin' you've never seen before (never seen)
And I dare a mother f***er to come in my face
I got somethin' chrome (I got somethin' Chrome)
And I got it from home (I got it from home)
And it ain't a microphone (ain't it a mic)
And I dare a mother f***er to come in my face
Hip hop has been filled with all types of unexplainable weird stuff these past ten years that we haven’t been able to question because “what’s wrong with being feminine in the first place” lol
Yeah but if what he means by “dress gay or act effeminate” is they act like thug or uzi that’s one thing
I assume he means, you know, they act like the high school stereotype of the gay guy who hangs out with all girls and is the loudest one in the group, which is different and doesn’t seem hip-hop related
"The decade of rap is also the decade gay has broken into mainstream youth culture"
Wrong off the jump
What the f*** do you think AIDS was, old queer people dying? Young gay people dying en masse "mainstreamed" queerness if anything could be said to. Conversion therapy fearmongering for 4 straight decades "mainstreamed" it.