'Shouldn't Tom Daley be a bottom?: Homosexual stereotyping online
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[quote]This article uses British diver and homosexual celebrity Tom Daley as a case study to examine instances of homosexual stereotyping on LGBT internet forum the DataLounge. Through textual analysis, I consider the anonymous discourse relating to Daley in terms of its representational implications. Of interest is how Daley is constructed through this discourse and what such constructions have to tell us about views on homosexuality and a particular well-known homosexual subject. I argue that Daley is objectified and aligned with certain stereotypes within this dedicated homosexual forum via the anonymous comments made about his profession, his body and mannerisms, and his personal life. I nominate certain ‘themes’ to make sense of this discourse, namely: the ‘dancer body’, the bottom, the slut, and the daddy’s boy. In addition to offering insight into how a particular homosexual celebrity is constructed through discourse by his own community, these themes also point to the pressures gay men feel to conform to ‘ideals’, and the consequences of nonconformity, of being a ‘failed representation’ (also known as a ‘stereotype’).
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | July 23, 2020 7:02 AM
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By the same author: "Celebrity Studies": Gay Men and the Coming Out of Colton Haynes:
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 23, 2020 3:06 AM
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But Tom Daley is a bottom.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | July 23, 2020 3:07 AM
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This cunt just takes DL threads and turns them into position papers! Where's my PhD?
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 23, 2020 3:10 AM
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I think there was a prior thread about this guy and his use of DL as research fodder.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 23, 2020 3:12 AM
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I want proper credit for this comment I made about TOM!
[quote]he is a "goal" for a top, most tops aspire to fuck a bottom like Tom Daley. He's adorable looking and flexible!
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 23, 2020 3:29 AM
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You just know a bottom who dreams of twink tops wrote that article.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 23, 2020 3:38 AM
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He is definitely the top with DLB r2, but why do you think he needs sex with other guys. So he can finally be the bottom.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | July 23, 2020 5:11 AM
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Joseph Brennan is an Aussie I see.
Come say hi Joseph! We know you are here.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | July 23, 2020 5:16 AM
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I want all the comments I have made about DLB on DL through the years to be published and sent to DLB to read.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | July 23, 2020 5:53 AM
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R8 Nein. They use double dildos or bring in a third.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | July 23, 2020 6:03 AM
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R9 "Dr. Joseph Brennan is currently working as a Lecturer in the Department of Department of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sydney , Australia. His research interests includes Dr Brennan works [sic] primarily across the fields of fan, pornography, and celebrity studies. In particular he is interested in exploring the intersections and conflicts within male sexuality, especially how such intersections and conflicts play out through online discourse."
So he spends his time reading celebrity and porn gossip on the internet and vomiting papers about it for a public university? This is the equivalent of an Us Weekly or The Sword writer receiving taxpayer money.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | July 23, 2020 6:13 AM
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Invaluable scholarship! His parents must be so proud.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | July 23, 2020 7:02 AM
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