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"The way to convince the public that you are an X is to act the way the public thinks that X folks act."

Explains a lot about gay culture.

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I get the general conclusion, but I must object to the phrasing of the question. The conclusion is: "It is easier for person with profession X to convince people that he has profession Y because he shares the same kinds of expectations of profession Y" (very loosely and generally - this may not be the case if profession X and Y are related, for example).

The question that one expects from such a conclusion is not "Which is harder: pretending to be what you are, or to pretending to be what you are not?" but rather "What is harder: convincing people to be what you are, or pretending to be what you are not?".

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