Exactly.
And what some men (they are so hung up on “manliness” and very insecure) call “effeminate” is really just variation from the norm.
Men are SO paranoid about “manliness”. Very insecure; God forbid they stray just a bit off the “norm”. God forbid they be like the dreaded, hated average woman. Meanwhile, perfectly acceptable for girls to do anything men are supposed to like. Wearing pants, playing GI Joe, gun battles in the yard, all OK.
I can think of so many men who are off the beaten path, but hardly homo. That is what men seem to be so scared of.
My uncle is one who is absolutely a wimp when it comes to anything “blood”, even mentioning it (I fear my son at 6yo is much this way, as well as like his father who has many fears). He starts to faint, and I do not mean just at age 80. But he is a very smart man, a lawyer, and speaks multiple languages he learned himself and reads even more. He was also very handsome, and he and his brother (the doctor, LOL) were much coveted by the ladies. And he really LIKED the ladies, despite some of his own “feminine” proclivities.
Many of these kids are afraid of not meeting some expectations that are forced on them by “society” or their peers.
Others, those that are well adjusted, essentially say “to hell with what you want”, I’m my own person.
For those who advocate that bullying is somehow essential to making some conform to what our expectations are...ponder on this...
God has made us all in His image...
And she can tell you stories of several of them who drifted into homosexuality due to the intense pressure from disgusting relatives/peers who slammed them again and again with "You are acting like a little faggot."
After all, if so many people they trusted told them that being interested in classical music and not in football made you a fag, why would they not believe it?