Limp wrist gay
A wrist activity to refer to gays.
The limp wrist meme was launched online when an interview of Cate Blanchett for Cinderella in 2015 resurfaced on Twitter. She used the limp wrist to clarify “gays” and not the “gaze” in a miscommunication.
Reporter to Cate Blanchett: you have such a gaze—
CB: I’ve got a whole lot of gays?
R: you have a signature Disney villain gaze. How do you do it? Can you teach me—
CB: Oh I’m sorry, I thought Disney villain GAYS. As in the lgbtq+ Disney villains...
R: *laughs*
CB: Sorry this is an accent disfunction. You mean the gaze *stares*, not the gays *limp wrist*.
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by kathyblanket June 12, 2020
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What Do Limp Wrists Have To Do With Gay Men?
After encouraging fathers to “punch” sons who exhibit stereotypically gay behavior, North Carolina pastor Sean Harris said on Tuesday that he should have chosen different words. In his April 28 sermon, Harris said, “Dads, the second you see your son dropping the limp wrist, you walk over there and crack that wrist.” Why do we associate a limp wrist with male homosexuality?
It probably goes back to ancient Rome. Ancient rhetoric teachers discouraged limp-wristedness during public speaking. This had nothing to do with homosexuality—the Romans didn’t consider male lover sex, per se, unmanly. A limp wrist was thought to betray a more general lack of masculine control over the body and its various urges. In the 18th century, however, Europeans came to think of homosexuality as a character trait rather than an occasional action, and gay sex became the antithesis of manliness. Physiognomists, who believed that physical appearance and mannerisms were evidence of one’s character, appear to have picked up on the ancient Roman belief that real men had rock-solid wrists. During this period, limp wrists came to signify not just ill discipline, but vari
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The best place to originate is with a band whose audacious queerness empowered its fans to exist their lives unapologetically and with radical self-love in the face of an often-stifling heteronormative society.
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Limp Wrist, Raised Fist
Limp Wrist emerged in 1998 from a Philadelphia basement.
Their first performance a year later at Stalag 13, a now-defunct venue in West Philly known for its sta
Green’s Dictionary of Slang
limp wristn.
[his allegedly extravagantly effeminate gestures; ? link to concept of ‘the limp wrist of refinement’ e.g. as used in Sixty Nine Birnam Road (1908) by W. Pett Ridge](orig. US)1. (US) the quality of effeminacy, weakness, thus homosexuality.
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| Men’s Wear 139 59: This always infuriates and frequently frightens producers and purveyors of the authentic organic shoulder garments because some [...] of the jiveyIvy wearers are apt to strike their explode for identity with a limp wrist. | |
| (con. 1991-94) W. BoyleCity of Margins 18: ‘That was fucked, Donnie,’ Sottile says. Donnie snaps support at Sottile: ‘You got a unpleasant streak of limp-wrist in you, you know that?’. |
2. (alsobent wrist, limp wrister) a male homosexual.
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