Booooo, get off the stage-

That is the elephant in the room
Well, is it relevant to assume
That a man who wears perfume
Is automatically, radically fey?

...I was gonna riff about American gay stereotypes, but David J Prokopetz put it better than I could, so:

David J Prokopetz wrote:

[...] does American popular culture have any national stereotypes that don't pull double duty as gay stereotypes?

Alanis, killed by a duelist named Clorinde

I mean, to be fair, doesn't France run lilies even today as the Fleur-de-lis?

"Depending on the time of day, the French go either way" ♫ ♪

Can't women just be close friends without having to be lesbians?

cd_young said:

Can't women just be close friends without having to be lesbians?

And this is why you have no friends, you stick-in-the-mud fuddy-duddy.