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- From: adolphso@mizar.usc.edu (adolphson)
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- Subject: Camp (was Re: LesBiGay and Transgender Glossary (long))
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- Date: 22 Dec 92 22:05:53 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.233342.24896@osf.org> <BzoKp8.H0C@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
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- In article <BzoKp8.H0C@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
- albrigh@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (thomas g albright) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec21.233342.24896@osf.org>
- > alan@ninja.osf.org (Alan Hamilton) writes:
- > >Camp: To exaggerate _feminine_ behaviors, usually for others'
- > >entertainment. Also, to _camp it up_. (See _butch it up_.)
- >
- > Actually, "camp" is a form of humor,
-
- Camp is more than a "form of humor". It's a sensibility.
-
- > in which one makes fun of one's
- > oppression by taking on and exaggerating stereotypes which the oppressor
- > projects on to the oppressed.
-
- Hmmmm. How does Maria Montez figure in this?
-
- > Thus homosexual men "camping it up" are
- > involved in exaggerating feminine behaviors because the stereotype of
- > gay men is that they are "effeminate." Camp makes fun of the
- > stereotype and laughs at the sting of the oppression.
-
- Yes, but.
-
- > The key is in the exaggeration and actual employment of the stereotype.
-
- That's *a* key, certainly.
-
- > Camp is most closely associated with the gay subculture, but it need not
- > be.
-
- I disagree with you entirely on that point.
-
- > A black person who for purposes of a joke, calls another black person
- > "nigger" is engaging in camp humor.
-
- Umm, no.
-
- > If you are interested in this topic,
- > see Susan Sontag who has published on this subject.
-
- Yes, do read Sontag's "Notes on Camp". But also keep in mind
- that a lot of her judgments are, to my mind, highly questionable.
-
- Arne
-