The gay lisp...

SAMAS · Post by **SAMAS** » 2003-08-11 02:43pm

verilon wrote:
Simon H.Johansen wrote:I think it's just a stereotype.

Not that there aren't homosexual men who lisp.

BTW - what causes people to have "lispy" voices?? I've heard that a long tongue make it easier to lisp, but maybe that's just an urban legend.
Overbite or tongue piercings can do it.

~ver

[Chris Rock]"If a man has a pierced tounge..."[/Chris Rock]

Setzer · Post by **Setzer** » 2003-08-11 04:38pm

I always assumed it was a stereotype perpetuated by the media, or a device to easily identify gay characters in TV or movies.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-08-11 04:51pm

SAMAS wrote:[Chris Rock]"If a man has a pierced tounge..."[/Chris Rock]

He's probably got high tolerance for pain.

zombie84 · Post by **zombie84** » 2003-08-11 07:12pm

I would normally think the whole gay "lisp", or "accent" as someone else said, was a social thing--yes, it is a stereotype, and not all gay men have it, but in my experience the vast majority do. But i remember in high school, there were two guys who started to talk with that particular accent around grade 9. They were lucky that noone ever teased them about it; the guys slowly excluded them from most social circles by the end of the year, but compared to some horror stories, i think they had it fairly easy. We werent really sure if they were gay--they just talked with that lispy accent and that really doesnt mean anything but we were too homophobic to care really. Over the next few years they slowly began acting more and more effeminate, dressing more and more flamoboyantly and of course the accent became more and more distict, and soon both of them came out of the closet.
The reason i tell this is because it seems that they developed the "accent" around the same time they would have began to mature sexually; around the time the rest of us were discovering we liked girls, they were discovering they didnt. The "accent" couldnt have been a conscious thing, or had any social motivation. This is why im leaning towards the notion that it may be genetic.

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2003-08-16 02:38am

Simon H.Johansen wrote:I think it's just a stereotype.

Not that there aren't homosexual men who lisp.

BTW - what causes people to have "lispy" voices?? I've heard that a long tongue make it easier to lisp, but maybe that's just an urban legend.

Well, in my case, it's a combination of overbite, a wide tongue, and a misshapen palate. It's been partially corrected through therapy and orthodontics, but complete correction would require fairly heavy surgery (1-2 year recovery), which is a bit drastic in my opinion.

CrimsonRaine · Post by **CrimsonRaine** » 2003-08-16 02:42am

Darth Servo wrote:I think someone's been watching too much TV. None of the Gay people I know have a lisp.

I've met some who do. But many of the more feminine gays I've met are just soft-spoken, and will lisp sometimes. One of my best friends is gay, and well, you could never tell by the way he speaks. Or acts. Shit, when he came out, it took me weeks to realize that snatch shopping was out of the picture, and he was more interested in the Schlong Special.

Ah, well. Stereotypes. Cute.

Crimson Raine