The trope itself isn't necessarily harmful, but applying it to real people can be. Gay men exhibiting masculine tendencies or preferring masculine hobbies isn't necessarily a problem it's when it is used to vocally differentiate the individual from ' those gays' that it becomes an issue.
In some cases � especially Soap Operas � this may be because of the writers changing their minds about an originally heterosexual character.Ī lot of gay people object to the term itself (especially with the term Straight-Acting), arguing that gender presentation and sexual orientation are unrelated, and that the term is unnecessarily divisive.
