On Oct 5, 2010, at 1:12 PM, bill harris wrote:
"Foppish", I believe would be the correct term, but still I wonder: is this PC? Or have I unwittingly engaged in hate speech because a twenty-first century scholar has demonstrated that the sexual preferences of these ...err...fops was of like gender?
Bill,
Without re-surveying the century and its fops, I think it's safe to say there were Aesthetes of every sex and orientation. But a lot of the heavy hitters, Pater and Wilde, notably, were definitely man's men, as it were.
Cordially,
Doug
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