• @[email protected]
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    Pull through parking. You know, where there are two spaces so you drive through one into the next so you can pull out of the one you park in without having to back up? I got told that was for “girls and gays”.

    • @tetrachromacy
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      If pulling forward into an empty parking space in front of your car is gay, then I guess you’d better start calling me Elton John. What the actual fuck?

    • @[email protected]
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      Not sure if related, but my wife once told me it was hot watching me put my arm behind her passenger seat, look back and reverse out of a car space.

      Now I need to know… are reverse cameras also for girls and gays?

        • skulblaka
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          They’ve been mandatory on all new vehicles since 2018

          • WastedJobe
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            They’re puttin’ cameras in the cars to turn the friggin’ trucks gay! (/s for those who don’t know the reference)

    • @RadicalEagle
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      That really clashes with the reality of how truck bros actually park. Or does it…?

      • @NegativeInf
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        Truck bros park in the dead center of 4 spots.

        • @Today
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          Yeah, sorry, that was me today. Weird day. I’d back up 4 times and still not be able to see the lines.

            • @Today
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              Lying on the ground in a parking lot? That would be weird, but maybe they could have called out directions to help me get into a parking space.

              • @[email protected]
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                It’s the same car regardless of location. If you can’t see the parking lines then extrapolate, idiot.

    • @RizzRustbolt
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      Real men know that there is a greater tactical advantage to backing out of a parking spot instead of pulling out.

  • @[email protected]
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    One story my husband shared with me was when he and my dad stopped into a local bar after working hard on home renovations all day. They planned to get some dinner and have some beer after a hard day’s work but needed to wash their very dirty hands first. So they went back into the bathroom and washed their hands. Well apparently that was too “gay” for the owner of the bar and they went over to the bathroom and started saying things like “I don’t know what you think you’re doing in there” and “I just need to make sure you’re not doing anything funny”. So they ended up just leaving while the guy yelled at them saying they had to buy something.

    A slightly different version of this concept also happened to my husband. At one point, 2 of our lady friends were talking about fashion and my husband, who is MUCH more fashionable than I am, chimed in. They proceeded to tell him that he’s “not allowed to have an opinion because he’s a man” which is the most double standard bullshit I’ve ever heard come out of any of my friends mouths. It’s stuck with me for a long time now because I think it keeps me honest with myself about standards and reminds me to think about how opinions change when you flip genders.

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      They planned to get some dinner and have some beer after a hard day’s work but needed to wash their very dirty hands first. So they went back into the bathroom and washed their hands. Well apparently that was too “gay” for the owner of the bar and they went over to the bathroom and started saying things like “I don’t know what you think you’re doing in there” and “I just need to make sure you’re not doing anything funny”.

      Fellas, is it gay to practice basic personal hygiene?

      • WadeTheWizard
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        Washing your hands implies you touched your penis and touching penises is gay.

        • @Archer
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          Only straight way to use a urinal is helicoptering, got it

        • @[email protected]
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          I usually just wet my pants to avoid touching my own penis so I don’t get perceived as gay. Shit, I just used the word perceived. Gay af.

      • @Death_Equity
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        I think the bar owner thought they might be going into the bathroom to do gay stuff, not that washing their hands is gay.

        • @lunarul
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          Two men walking in the bar and going straight to the bathroom together. Man jumped to conclusions.

          • @Death_Equity
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            Well it is called “homophobia” and a “phobia” is an irrational fear.

            He lives his life in fear of two consenting men. Lol

            • @[email protected]
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              I had the realization recently that homophobes think of gay sex as often as I do; but they have to jump through mental gymnastics to get it while I simply open up app and I’m back to normal an hour or so later.

              I can’t image how hard it is to be happy and hold such a defining part of your life with such contempt at the same time and that was the first time I’ve ever felt sorry for a homophobe; it was for Aaron shock.

      • NoIWontPickAName
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        Wait… you’re not washing your asshole are you?

        You can’t be having fingers near your butt, same with wiping

  • brandon
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    1592 months ago

    I once got called the f-slur for having the audacity to read a book in public, outdoors in front of the library.

  • SeaJ
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    I grew up in the 90s so just existing would cause people to call you gay.

  • @[email protected]
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    I was told I’m gay because I like knitting.
    I mean, yes I’m gay, but not because of that.

    • @Today
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      There’s a knitting community, but it’s pretty slow. Crochet gets a little more action.

    • @[email protected]
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      It would be really weird if that was cause and effect. I like to imagine how that might go down though.

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    Making quiche for brunch. Apparently an omelet is fine, but a scrambled omelette is gay.

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    Stand in awe at a replica of Michaelangelo’s David.

    Admittedly staring at a statue of a naked guy, but come on

  • @paddirn
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    Sucking my best friend’s dick. I’m sorry, but if my friend is having a bad day, giving him a bro-job is not gay.

    • @TwentySeven
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      Not judging, but that is definitely gay.

      • Caveman
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        Only if he gets a boner

      • slazer2au
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        Sounds like a happy experience all round.

    • @[email protected]
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      I’m generally skeptical of comments on the internet, so almost every time I have read comments like this one that you’re reading right now, I’ve been like “yeah right”. Kinda like how “lol” means “laughing out loud” but when you read it online you don’t really expect whoever wrote “lol” to have laughed out loud? Anyway, I was drinking coffee, I read your comment, I snorted in laughter, and now my white shirt is full of coffee.

      I guess I’m also kinda mad at myself for laughing so hard at such a silly joke. Regardless, have an updoot 👍

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    I went roller blading on the boardwalk along the beach during the pandemic and got called gay

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      It wasn’t your skates that did it; it was your crop top and hotpants. j/k

    • @RadicalEagle
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      Well are you? I don’t see any proof you’re trying to deny it.

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          🎶I got a brand new pair of roller skates you got skint you knees, let’s get to together and touch together our peepees🎶

        • @Death_Equity
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          I think the outfit determines how homosexual either appears, or if you are actively penetrating a man or being penetrated by a man.

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            In some cough cough cultures, penetrating a man is a demonstration of masculinity and dominance and somehow doesn’t make you gay.

            • Dharma Curious
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              Fun fact, this is why I got laid so much in Mexico. I took so much straight dong on that trip I should have gotten frequent fliers miles

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      I haven’t thought about this in like 20 years but when I was in middle school late 90s some kid had an album where one of the songs was titled “You Rollerblading (f-slur)” and I remember thinking it was the worst music I had heard in my life. 90% sure it was grindcore music, I didn’t know what grindcore was at the time but my memory of the sound kind of fits that mold and the album had like fifty tracks and every single one of them was like 10-15 seconds long.

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        I suspected this was an Anal Cunt track by the title and looking it up proved my suspicions correct.

        • Christian
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          Looking at this now, you are correct, and while I wasn’t proud of myself for having thought the song titles were funny, I feel a bit more embarrassed now than I did two minutes ago before looking it up. Edgy teenagers were clearly this band’s target audience.

          • @[email protected]
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            I found out about them during the Napster/Kazaa era looking for 311 songs and their song “311 sucks” came up. I thought it was funny, then again, I was an edgy teenager at that time.

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      There was a show, Human Giant I think it was called, which was like skit comedy. Aziz Ansari (spelling?) was in it. In the skit, he was talking about rollerblading and I lost it when, with a straight face, he said, “the hardest thing about rollerblading is telling your parents’ you’re gay.”

    • @weeeeum
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      Yeah this is still astonishing to me as a guy. Why is basic hygiene gay?

    • @nomous
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      And up to the first knuckle, you don’t have to jam soap up there but wash your nasty ass if you expect anyone to not gag when they get near your crotch.

      Some of yall are nasty.

    • @[email protected]
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      Seriously. If I was a girl, there’s no way I’d want to fuck someone with a filthy asshole, especially on my sheets. Skidmarks on the sheets and smelling like old shit is gross.

      Wash your ass and groin with soap and water just like you do your armpits and feet.

      My unasked for advice? Keep your butthole hair trimmed or shaved. Makes it much easier to keep clean, and it takes two seconds in the shower.

    • @Jayb151
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      Yes, why would you expect anyone to stuff something up there if you’re not going to at least keep it clean!?

  • @[email protected]
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    In the 1990s in the UK, it was gay to wear a backpack using both shoulder straps (as opposed to using one strap over one shoulder, which was the heterosexual way to carry things to school).

    • @[email protected]
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      282 months ago

      As a fellow school child in the ‘90s, I can confirm that almost anything anyone did was gay. Holding hands with a girl? Gay. Liking video games? Gay.

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        According to the best school playground scientists of the time, opening a packet of crisps upside down (i.e. so the branding/writing is upside down, and you open the bottom of the packet, at the top) actually “made you gay”.

        It wasn’t just gay if you did it, but it would literally cause a spontaneous eruption of gayness in whoever did it - who would be permanently gay from that point onwards.

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      Other way round now. And they have little satchel things too on their chest.

      Bizarre times

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    Dance. In a troupe full of girls. Honestly, it was me and 15-20 girls.

    Other boys literally called me gay for dancing, while they went and played whatever sports they did and then all went into a locker room and showered together etc.

    I honestly never understood how they thought dance was gay. I don’t understand it now.

    • Dyskolos
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      They didn’t either. One idiot started it out of jealousy (i presume) and the rest just parrotted him. People and their group dynamics…

      • @Meltrax
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        Ok so the whole “the other kids are just jealous” thing is, I think, disengenious.

        Sometimes kids just suck. They make fun of other kids for anything. They aren’t necessarily jealous. They might be uncomfortable. They might be vindictive at the time. They might basically be playing “spot the difference” (i.e. that kid dances, my friend doesn’t dance, look that’s different) so they make fun of one side of that equation.

        In this case, I feel like the kids probably were not jealous. I feel like they were just idiot kids. Same end result but I don’t know, it seems unhelpful to bullying victims to just tell them that everyone is jealous of them, sadly that’s not usually the case.

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          Sure, who knows. I just assumed that some boys were very jealous of the rockstar with a whole group of girls 😁 But yeah, kids can also be just idiots. We weren’t there.

          And sure it’s not usually the case, and i wouldn’t tell that to any bullied kid. It just screamed jealousy in this particular case.

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      Spending hours with a bunch of ladies and possibly touching them in intimate locations.

      vs

      Spending hours with a bunch of guys and possibly touching them in intimate locations. Then showing with them.

      Yeah, dance is way gayer.

  • Zier
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    Here’s something to ponder. The next time someone accuses you of being gay for [insert lame reason here], ask them how they know that’s gay? Are they gay? Funny how some “men” are so obsessed with “gay” stuff. Always remember, and never forget, closets are for clothes.

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      I definitely employed this strategy in middle school

      Doesn’t generally work because logic doesn’t work on these people

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        I went this route in high school at a dude i had classes with that kept insisting his dick was bigger than everyone’s. Eventually I’d ask how he knew, that we didn’t have gym class or do the same sports so he would’ve had to go out of his way to check or ask other people.

        He would compulsively bring it up, only to get shut down when me or one of my friends started calling him the dick expert with a meticulous catalog of all the dude’s sizes.

    • @Today
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      Know how i know you’re gay?

      • @tacosplease
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        Worst part about being on Lemmy is having to tell your parents you’re gay

      • Zier
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        Because I’m standing here not wearing any clothes? They are all in the closet btw. :)

  • Dyskolos
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    Born in the 70s. I’ve been called gay for nearly everything i ever did in the next decades. Didn’t even understand back then why my assumed sexual orientation was something seemingly bad.

    I’ve also called someone gay. He swore he was hetero but wanted to suck me off. Because dicks are so “aesthetically beautiful” while vajayays where just “disgustingly filthy axe-wounds” 😂 He quit the friendship because i thought he was gay and dared to voice it.

    That was sad and the best example of what this stupid world does to people who are just slightly off the “normal” path.

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      He swore he was hetero but wanted to suck me off. Because dicks are so “aesthetically beautiful” while vajayays where just “disgustingly filthy axe-wounds” 😂

      Dude was so deep in the closet he was crowned king in Narnia.