Social Abnormalities: Human Responses to a Man in a Dress and the Correlations of Sexual Preference
Carolyn Cooper, Nate Bartman, Jay Young, Talib Pirmohamed
Abstract
The area explored was involving gender roles as limited to dress of men. Dually introduced was homosexuality versus heterosexuality of men. The study consisted of a typically heterosexual man breaking a social/gender norm by wearing a dress and walking in public three separate times, once alone, once with a visible established relationship with another man, and another time with the same visual cue of an established relationship with a woman. In order to demonstrate a relationship, the two involved held hands whilst walking through a public area, specifically a mall. The findings show that when the homosexual aspect was introduced, the reactions of people became more significant, less laughing and just passing by, but more staring and talking.
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Posted by iddyonthemoose on Jun 11 2007 under general
Just putting this out there, I need to write a recap on the trip because I didn’t get to post much after we left our first hotel, I’ll get to it this week =D
Posted by Brian on Apr 24 2007 under general
Again we woke up too late, it’s taking me longer to get adjusted to the new time zone than I thought it would. We managed to miss ALL of the WJF competitions, but luckily we didn’t pay to see them either. They did let us get in for free to see the exhibitions after the competitions. For the exhibitions they had Toby Walker, Jason Garfield and Vova Galchenko. Toby did some amazing club stuff, a lot of which I didn’t think was possible, Jason qualified 9 rings, and Vova did more club stuff that really isn’t possible. It was really cool to see them perform live and see them struggle with the hard stuff. It makes one feel like they suck less for not being able to do all those tricks. In the gym I met up with my friend Bri for some passing fun, and also did some passing with Ashton, a british juggler that is a friend of John’s. I also got to talk a bit with Wes Peden who is another amazing juggler, who let me know that he and Vova will be going to IJA this year. I’ll be looking forward to meeting them again, hopefully I’ll be a better juggler to. I need to take more pictures instead of video, since I’ve decided not to upload videos until I get back to the states. I still can’t understand why the British have two taps, one for cold water, and one for hot water… on opposite sides of the sink. There is no rhyme or reason to this, and makes washing your hands more of a pain than anything else. I’ll post a picture of it….
Today is our second day in the U.K, we started traveling from Orlando Fl on Tuesday (the 10th) at 11am and got to London 6:30am Wednesday. It felt like we were out of the country before we even left Florida. In the Orlando airport we were surrounded by Brits’ and Germans who were all making connections through Washington as well. The first flight to Washington/Dulles was pretty good, I got to sit next to a lady and her daughter who were from Montreal which was fun because I got to use some French. Her daughter hadn’t even learned to speak English yet! Apparently they start teaching them in the second grade. The flight from Washington to London was…. long (7 1/2 hours). Luckily we got the first row of “Economy Plus” which meant we had a whole lot of leg room, but the seats where still too cramped together. We did get our our TV’s and I got to watch two different movies that I don’t know the names of.
Once we arrived in the U.K. (which is having perfect weather) we were able to get our rental car which had become a “free upgrade” (we think they ran out of automatic transmissions and they wanted to honor our reservation). Our “free upgrade” turned out to be an vauxhall astra, a two-door sports car that happens to be a hard top convertible. (like we’ll be using that) This turned out to be quite fun because its right drive and you drive on the wrong side of the road which can be quite unnerving when you’re trying to turn. Two hours and pit-stop later we arrived in Nottingham and found a Hotel. We managed to swing by the festival just long enough to pick up our badges before we went back to the hotel to meet up with one of John’s friends from Nottingham, Mary. We spent the rest of the night with Mary walking around the streets of the city centre.
Today we woke up at 8am to catch the free breakfast, which turned out to be not worth waking up for. We then proceeded to sleep until 1500 this afternoon. After realizing that we had missed most of the day we packed up and headed over to the BJC. I was able to meet up with some of my friends from the states that I haven’t seen in a year, Bri, who is spending a year in Europe and has so far spent most of her time in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and Erin, a cool chick with the WJF. The first thing I noticed about the BJC is that it is small… Not what I expected at all. It kind of felt like a really big Ground Hogs fest (at least the gym was the same size). - edit - The first day we were there must have had no people show up, because it was PACKED today. Packed to the point where I wasn’t able to practice 5 ball stuff and I don’t move around much for that anymore 0.o The gym is definitely about the size of the ground hogs fest though… - edit - The coolest thing about this fest was seeing all of the WJF guys in the gym. Toby Walker doing 5 club mills mess, Vova Galchenko doing things with six clubs that I couldn’t do with another two hands. However, by far, it was the best to meet Thomas Dietz. At first I didn’t recognize Thomas at all, he was just this guy that came up and asked if there was a five club back crosses endurance going on. But John and I started talking with Thomas and he was doing trick requests for us, and managed to do 120 back crosses with five of my clubs! (hopefully they are trained now =D) Before long most of the people in the gym stopped what they were doing and gathered around Thomas to watch him show us his “easy” 5 ball tricks… Admittedly I could do some of them, but definitely not as well, and definitely not all in the same run 0.o
Well its way past time to go to sleep and I still haven’t adjusted to the new time zone -.-
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If you must know… My name is Brian Knobbs, and I am currently a student at the University of Central Florida. To pass my time I am an active juggler, magician, and computer programmer. I also spend a good amount of time working on my car, mainly because it keeps breaking, and doing other sort of little things with electronics that interest me. Currently I am working towards majoring in Computer Security, which is going to be a new major at UCF in within the next year or so. The security aspect of things is what really interests me, which explains why I am such a fascination with safes and locks and why I like tricking people with slights (magic).
Contact:
If you would like to contact me you can message me on AIM, or better yet, call me on Skype!
If you would like to e-mail me, please use PGP, and you can find my e-mail address in my public key.
Posted by Brian on Apr 08 2007 under general
I updated a bunch of stuff to the site today. First of all, I moved bknobbs.com content back over to unspokencreations.com (I’ve decided that I’m going to use bknobbs.com to test web designs). I upgraded wordpress to v2.1 which went fine, and I also changed the photo gallery to point to my Flickr account since I’ve started using it to host all my pictures instead of this site. The old gallery is still there but will probably be deleted soon. Anyways, possibly a theme update coming soon but who knows.
Also, I updated the Juggling page so that it pulls from www.jugglingdb.com, although I haven’t really been keeping any of my records on there, I guess I should…
Be sure to check out my Flickr site often starting April 10th, because I’m going to try and upload pictures from my trip to Europe daily, that is if I can get a network connection daily… I might even post to this site!
Posted by Brian on Apr 01 2007 under general
After many struggles with attempting to get Solaris 10 working flawlessly under x86 and failing (though I think I can if I really tried), I’ve decided to attemp and install the Sunray server on Linux to see how it compares. I’ve decided to go with Ubuntu linux. Mainly because it has the best documentation on getting the sunray server working, but also because otherwise I was going to use debian, and this just helps to streamline the process. This is mainly for me, just documenting what I did, so some if it will not apply to your setup.
I started off by installing Ubuntu 5.10. There was nothing strange in the setup, just ran through the install. After the install there were a few things I wanted to make sure were working before attempting the SunRay server:
I then followed this guide to installing SunRay server 3.1. And thats all i’ve done so far…
Posted by Brian on Mar 29 2006 under Tutorials