Talk:Swish (slang)

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The following comment was written in the article by anon user 160.39.246.147. Natgoo 20:08, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

This author's comment that swish may be turned on or off comes from her/his prejudices, supported by her/his interpretation of the quotation that follows. The author's passive voice construction implies that she/he intends that a given individual may turn swish on or off, at will--that swish is controllable by the person doing the swishing, as it were. But the quotation makes no explicit statement that its author perceives the individuals who formerly acted swish now act clone. Rather, it implies that as a *group*, male queers/gays have largely converted to a clone/butch identity, giving no indication that he perceives this to be controllable by the individual. Thus the quotation does not serve as evidential support for the author's claim (as the latter's colon indicates she/he intends it to). Further, the author reads all of this as implicitly a response to post-Stonewall gay identity, which is dubious (c.f. pre-Stonewall figures such as "rough trade"). Why am I analyzing? Because the conceptual difficulties of arguing in the author's way are great, the political implications even greater, and we need to take this into consideration. Lastly, lest I be chided or censored for raising these issues on a forum that is supposed to be factual, let me close by stating that I've already demonstrated that such objective, factual, encyclopedia entries are impossible. We're all, already, committed.

The article includes a citation for "Henry, 1955, p.291" but doesn't include any article by a person with the last name Henry in the bibliography.

[edit] no references?

If someone has references besides "Henry 1978", could they provide them? Otherwise the notations are useless. -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 07:22, 14 December 2006 (UTC)