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This was interesting for me because it made me stop and thing about what situations I really am an "other" and I came to the conclusion that in a lot of social situations I am the other because of my sexuality. I think that because I can be really straight-passing, I don't really think about it but there are definitely situations where my sexuality puts me at odds with others when I am in groups with mostly straight people. So to really make it stand out, I decided that a Super Bowl party is the place where I will be the most other. It seems that football is the epitome of stereotypical straight masculine culture and since I am neither straight nor do I subscribe to the notions of traditional masculinity, this was a situation where I was "the other." Also, I don't like football which is a dangerous thing to say at a Super Bowl party. In the normal conversation of the party, several homophobic slurs and comments were thrown out just as part of the culture