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Okay, is it just me or has gay culture all of a sudden become mainstream fashion? I guess it has always been this way but never has it been more obvious than with the current hip-hop fashion culture. Chances are your favorite rapper is wearing a scarf right now that 15 years ago would have merited requests to come out of the closet.

Why am I bringing this up? Simply because I feel that it is important to note the irony of a culture that has been particularly homophobic to embrace what would have once been labeled obviously gay fashions. Should we be ashamed? No! We should embrace this growth and maturity as a culture. This is about having the courage to take risks and where what you feel best expresses your fashion sense. I know that this is just a trend to be replaced by another in the near, near future. The point here is let's start to mobilize as a community and start to use fashion as a way of expressing our own personal taste. If we all did this anyway, then there would be no real way to "read" into one person's style of dress and determine what he or she likes to do in the bedroom. I think that many of us are lazy. We want instant answers about people so we like to use outward characteristics like fashion, hair, makeup, jewelry, etc. to help us develop opinions about people that if we really cared about knowing the person we would simply take the time to know them.

If you want to get to know a person, stop looking at the clothes, the hair, and the walk as these things are simply the outermost shell. Take the time to get to know a person's heart and spirit and personality so that you can truly tell the content of a man's character. It shouldn't only be "okay" to wear scarves now because Jay-Z and Kanye and Young Jeezy wear them.