I like how Mahoney was able to depict the Irish based on
their accent and how they could always guess if she was an American. I don’t
know whether or not she was trying to contrast Irish men from Irish women by
using the anecdotal piece about the fisherman and the gay women she meet in the
pub, but I think it gives the idea that being gay is something that is
misunderstood? I also like her apprehension to go to a gay bar because she was
straight and compares her apprehension to what these gay women feel everyday. I
think this piece shows how stereotypes are formed even within the gay community
because Freddy and several others wanted Rose to self indentify with “gay” or “bisexual”.
This piece definitely shows how different personalities come together to be a
community where everyone is similar, but my question is Rose really taking
something form these people or just telling a story about this one time she
went to a gay pub in Ireland?
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