tarotbear
I know of at least 10
There are 10 straight guys on this site?
wow
I know of at least 10
No deck explores the social or mundane aspects of all men, as the women's decks include, save perhaps the Everyman, which is comparably newer.
I don't see this as a big deal. I don't feel I need my whole universe to be gay in order to understand it. It may be called "switching" I just think of it as the ability to empathise and enter other skins. Experiencing all Art depends on this. I can look at the outside world and see my experiences in other experiences. It's what allows me to read with cat decks. Each time someone digs out a cat deck, is "switching" obligatory? I can see my love in other Lovers cards. I don't think tarot has to be that literal. Does that sound like I'm repressing something? I certainly don't feel I lead a repressed life. I just feel that the upshot of this is that I don't need a deck to try and spell my life out literally.This provokes in us gays the constant need to, as I put it, "translate from straight into gay" in order to be comprehensible on any profound level. Closapexa called it "switching." Are some of you gay guys so used to doing it that you have forgotten you even do it--even though it forces you to view many parts of the straight world through a filter?
This provokes in us gays the constant need to, as I put it, "translate from straight into gay" in order to be comprehensible on any profound level. Closapexa called it "switching." Are some of you gay guys so used to doing it that you have forgotten you even do it--even though it forces you to view many parts of the straight world through a filter?
BTW, do straight people catch on to tarotbear's name? Befriend a bear--furry chests are fun to rub.
I agree on this. I miss gay relationships in pop-culture (at least the shoes I'm watching) though... and I appreciate if Tarot Decks take us into account, for example the Prisma/Light Visions. You have a male couple in the Lovers dancing there, too! [emoji1]I don't see this as a big deal. I don't feel I need my whole universe to be gay in order to understand it. It may be called "switching" I just think of it as the ability to empathise and enter other skins. Experiencing all Art depends on this. I can look at the outside world and see my experiences in other experiences. It's what allows me to read with cat decks. Each time someone digs out a cat deck, is "switching" obligatory? I can see my love in other Lovers cards. I don't think tarot has to be that literal. Does that sound like I'm repressing something? I certainly don't feel I lead a repressed life. I just feel that the upshot of this is that I don't need a deck to try and spell my life out literally.
Oh WOW I never noticed the male couple! I'm so glad I ordered it. I believe the person in the back right couple may be a woman in a tuxedo, but I'm not sure. I'd like to think it is so that the three types are represented.I agree on this. I miss gay relationships in pop-culture (at least the shoes I'm watching) though... and I appreciate if Tarot Decks take us into account, for example the Prisma/Light Visions. You have a male couple in the Lovers dancing there, too! [emoji1]
But then, there is no lesbian couple... [emoji20]
Let's not forget about our sisters out the there! [emoji1]
Like I said previously, there are many shades of acceptance, even within the gay community, and it is a mistake to label someone as saying something homophobic, because you yourself may be judged in the same manner. I could find arguments for both the Gay and Everyman decks as being homophobic in themselves, just as I've heard second-wave feminists say that any woman who wears makeup is a slave to the patriarchy. I've heard others say that if a woman is butch, she's a slave to the patriarchy because she's not asserting the feminine identity, whatever that is. It goes on and on.
So the definitions for whatever, especially in gender, are problematic. It is always easy to jump the gun and claim homophobia, but it would incorrect to do so. It isn't just "lightening up," it is to assert that there are views other than one's own that are still valid.
As for the "switch," it exists, but actually less so in Tarot, where abstract symbolism is concerned. If we take a look at culture in general, I actually find gay films tedious and boring for the most part, since almost all of them center on the struggles of coming out. This is slowly changing, of course, but to me I've done that part, I've gone beyond it, and prefer to see films that relate to my own circumstances (just as when I was at the appropriate age high-school dramas interested me a lot more).
Same for Tarot decks. To me the Thoth speaks to me personally, both in gay terms and in general terms, simply because I don't see myself as gay inside my head. I mean, obviously I do, but what is for others different is for me the default. One tries to assimilate all the different sides of the personality, and I couldn't tell you where "I" end and where the "gay" begins.