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Being Suspected Gay Before Coming Out and Leaning Into Identity
from #298 - Puerto Rican Papi | The Tim Dillon Show · #298
2 min
Louis and Tim discuss people suspecting Louis was gay before he came out, then broaden into how people perform identity (Black vernacular online, gay stereotypes) once they lean into it, and how they themselves refuse identity politics performance.
- People lean into their identity—some guys are effeminate, others take it further, not realizing there's a choice in how much to perform.
- Tim watches his Black friends deliberately write in Ebonics on social media despite having autocorrect, spending extra effort to signal identity.
- The guest calls Tim a Puerto Rican white supremacist; Tim responds he's a truth teller.
- Tim and the guest bond over finding identity politics gross—they don't hide who they are and aren't into the group thing.
- Social media trains people to present themselves in a certain calculated way rather than being real.
- In comedy and podcasting, Tim and his guest are less protected and more authentically themselves than many of their peers.