al-Deen-amin said...
Gays (homos) are of widespread occurrence nowadays especially in the west. He is a gay.
Gays are usually not transvestites ie. cross-dressers whom we call mak nyah, bapok, pondan. There is another category called orang lembut with feminish behaviour who normally dont' cross-dress.
Their presence is more in certain races, ethnics than others. By default they are being marginalised in terms of livelihood and acceptance by society. Understanding them may perhaps alleviate their burden of life.
Culture, upbringing, surroundings play a major role in promoting transvestism. Conjectures:
1. A family with many boys desirous for a girl, the mother will go the extent of cross-dressing a baby boy and treat him like a girl until he grows up.
2. Certain roles of former traditional society such as mak andams, dancers, cooks, comedians get special attention and benefits especially during khenduris. There seems to be a niche for feminish (men ) characters to assume such roles.
3. In a society strongly dependent on physical occupations as means of livehood such as hunting (orang asli), out fishing in the sea, or living at extreme temperatures (cold or hot), or survival (headhunting) feminish characters are cop-outs and forced to assume ceremonial roles.
4. Being marginalised they group themselves for support thus further enhance collective mannerism. Jobless, many would resort to backlane ways.
5. On rare occassions feminism of males are caused by genetic disorder of sex chromosomes X and Y.
PM, sorry for the digression.
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