Re: Yaguello's stereotype: response to Roger

>That's insulting. What you refer to is the behaviour of a minority of
>French people who just happens by accident to have received more attention
>than others. But my experience tells me that it's indeed a rare behaviour
>among French scholars. And my experience also tells me that this
In my 33 years of being progressively and socially active in the USA, I've
found that attention most often is focused on those who are anomalous within
any identifiable group or class. Hence, Blacks and Mexicans are lazy sex-mad
thieves, the French are sex-mad egocentrics, gays are effeminate sex-mad
pedophiles, etc. - obvioulsy very different from "normal" God-fearing
citizens of the good ol' US of A.

I always find interesting that, after gay pride marchs in Seattle, the TV
news reports usually focuse on:
1. the overtly flamboyant drag queens - all 15 of them.
2. the leather dykes - all 10 of them.
3. the one side-line contingent of anti-gay protestors - all 8 of them.
The remaining 1967 individuals - policemen, firefighters, doctors, people
who look like your average John or Jane on the street - are ignored.

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