<P> Jimmie Manning performed a study in 2015 on positive and negative behavior performed during the coming out conversation . During his study, he learned that almost all of his participants would only attribute negative behaviors with themselves during the coming out conversations and positive behaviors with the recipient of the conversation . Manning suggests further research into this to figure out a way for positive behaviors to be seen and performed equally by both the recipient and the individual coming out . </P> <P> The closet narrative sets up an implicit dualism between being "in" or being "out" wherein those who are "in" are often stigmatized as living false, unhappy lives . Likewise, philosopher and critical analyst Judith Butler (1991) states that the in / out metaphor creates a binary opposition which pretends that the closet is dark, marginal, and false and that being out in the "light of illumination" reveals a true (or essential) identity . Nonetheless, Butler is willing to appear at events as a lesbian and maintains that "it is possible to argue that...there remains a political imperative to use these necessary errors or category mistakes...to rally and represent an oppressed political constituency". </P> <P> In addition Diana Fuss (1991) explains, "the problem of course with the inside / outside rhetoric...is that such polemics disguise the fact that most of us are both inside and outside at the same time". Further, "To be out, in common gay parlance, is precisely to be no longer out; to be out is to be finally outside of exteriority and all the exclusions and deprivations such outsiderhood imposes . Or, put another way, to be out is really to be in--inside the realm of the visible, the speakable, the culturally intelligible ." In other words, coming out constructs the closet it supposedly destroys and the self it supposedly reveals, "the first appearance of the homosexual as a' species' rather than a' temporary aberration' also marks the moment of the homosexual's disappearance--into the closet". </P> <P> Furthermore, Seidman, Meeks, and Traschen (1999) argue that "the closet" may be becoming an antiquated metaphor in the lives of modern - day Americans for two reasons . </P>

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