James Finn
Jun 26, 2023

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I know you mean well, but I wonder if you would mind considering how this sentence could be read as homophobic. It's one thing to make fun of clerics for their archaic clothing, but when that becomes a mocking of men who transgress traditional standards of gendered dress it's, well, not very uplifting to men who don't uphold traditional gender standards.

What I mean is, the joke is funny in a way, but it wouldn't land without homophobic cultural ideas that give it its bite.

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James Finn
James Finn

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James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.

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