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There is a post and discussion at Lawrence Auster's View From the Right where he posted the photograph of a sailor kissing a nurse at the announcement of V-J Day in Times Square on August 14, 1945, and paralleled it to the kiss by two military women upon the return of one of them in 2011 from time away at sea. He writes:
[T]he "kiss" between the two "female" "sailors" (see how more and more of reality must be placed in scare quotes nowadays, as per Laura's second point?) is a perverted copy of the sort of romantic kiss we remember from the World War II period, like the famous photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt of a sailor embracing (in the French sense of the word) a woman in Times Square on VJ Day [Eisenstaedt 's above photo is posted here].In this complicated, manufactured world of homosexual constructions, it is difficult to decipher what roles these "females" - lesbians, and "males" - homosexuals, are playing. Here is what I think might be going on.
Meanwhile, culturally approved "kisses" between "men" and "women" today all look something like this: [photo of a contemporary male and female couple posted here].
I've noticed that in many homosexual couples (male and female) there are "masculine" and "feminine" roles, although it is bigger than roles because they seem to really embody them. In other words, in the lesbian couples, one is "male" and the other is "female" and the same for the male homosexuals. The "males" act in the dominant, aggressive and controlling manner (controlling in the sense of handling the relationship). The "females" are more submissive, domestic and emotional.
It is uncanny and creepy, since one can detect this "differentiation" very quickly. In my liberal university years, I used to be friends with a homosexual couple. The "female" baked cakes, arranged the house, remembered birthdays (I got a few great birthday cakes), etc. The "male" was harsher - he didn't like me because I was close with his "partner," since we liked similar things - movies, fashion, books, photography, etc. He was more of a engineer type, a little authoritarian and decisive. For example, he made it clear he didn't want me around too much.
The last I heard, they got married when gay marriage became legalized in Connecticut (where they're from).
It is strange that this "gender" differentiation is so prominently and seriously taken up by homosexuals, while many heterosexual couples these days seem to be blurring these differences. For example, I've observed that young men and women are dressing in androgynous, undifferentiated clothing, and it is sometimes hard to tell who is female and who is male. The strange side/after-effect of this is young women (in their teens and twenties) who still want to be considered "female" are dressing in such sexualized ways that they look like prostitutes.
It's as thought homosexuals are intent on trying to take on "normal" male and female roles, while heterosexuals are abandoning them.
So I'm not surprised that this lesbian "sailor" couple looks like the couple in Eisenstaedt's photograph, since what they're trying to embody is the heterosexual masculine/feminine interaction. They want to be like "normal" heterosexual people.
