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[–] promitheas@programming.dev 31 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (9 children)

Use chapstick

Read a book in public

Not go to gym

Play certain more "feminine" games

Those off the top of my head. I live in a nation of backwards idiots, so there for sure are more

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[–] jrubal1462@mander.xyz 31 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Around 2010ish I was thoroughly enjoying some Bells Two Hearted and other IPAs. My brother (2 years older) tried arguing that bud light is man's beer, and my beers were fruity and girly. It certainly doesn't matter to me, but the irony of choosing bud light, out of all the macro beers, is just πŸ‘¨β€πŸ³πŸ˜˜>

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[–] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 30 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Have a straw in a restaurant.

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[–] Soapbox1858@lemm.ee 29 points 4 weeks ago

Playing tennis.

In jr high I had some friends who played football say my other friends and I on the tennis team were gay for playing tennis.

I had to point out to them that the tennis team was co-ed and we regularly made out with our female teammates on the long bus rides to tournaments.

While those on the football team were constantly manhandling each other, showering together and slapping each other on the ass to say "good game." But the tennis team are the gay ones?

They got mad, but dropped it.

[–] macrocarpa@lemmy.world 28 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Wore a maroon coloured hoodie

The dude who asked me this also stared fixedly at the crotch of my board shorts and asked me "where's your package, man?" upon me exiting climbing out of a (cold) plunge pool

I clearly looked confused, so he says "where's your piece?"

Dude clearly spent a fair amount of his time cataloguing the outlines of flaccid penises through boardshorts for whatever fucking reason.

I was offended, ish, till I heard the growers vs show-ers thing. Mine retracts while not in use, it's quite convenient.

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[–] fullstopslash@lemmy.ml 28 points 3 weeks ago
[–] aimizo@lemmy.world 27 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

As a kid I was told if you eat scrambled eggs for dinner you are gay. It affected me longer than I care to admit.

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[–] AppearanceBoring9229@sh.itjust.works 27 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)
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[–] wurstgulasch3000@lemmy.world 26 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)
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[–] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 23 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Hugging friends. Or any sort of physical contact that isn't with a woman.

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[–] spacecadet@lemm.ee 22 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I once called a woman sexy and that I would do it with her and was called gay because she had big muscles. That woman is Carriejune Bowlby. I guess straight guys don’t like in shape women with big butts?

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[–] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 22 points 4 weeks ago (8 children)

Have a wider choice of underwear. Some beautiful individual in another thread put me on to β€œgay” underwear… comfort settings I’d never dreamed of. I’d feel contained performing CPR in these badboys. Apparently this clothing change is the first step on the road to man love - according to the absolute brains trust I’ve had the pleasure of working with for the last couple of months.

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[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 22 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

One time in high school, I heard somebody yell "Steve, you [bundle of sticks], stop talking to your girlfriend and let's go!" and Steve was in fact at the time talking to his girlfriend.

The sheer concentration of cognitive dissonance has stuck with me to this day.

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 28 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

Fag evolved into something completely different in the '00s, and was seldomly used to imply homosexuality. I don't know how it happened, exactly, but it was seemingly repurposed to mean loser/douchebag, just as gay was used to express something being lame. This didn't stop the words from being offensive, but it was still an interesting change of definition. Obviously they've since reverted.

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[–] shasta@lemm.ee 21 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Wearing an earring in your right ear, but it's ok to wear it in the left... Or the other way around. I could never remember which.

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[–] Roopappy@lemmy.ml 21 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] KAYDUBELL@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

In jr. high i was called gay because I dressed semi decent. Jeans with a t-shirt a blazer was apparently too much for them lol

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[–] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 20 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Surprised no one has posted "use a straw" yet. That's definitely one of the more common ones . Weird as shit.

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[–] Rin@lemm.ee 18 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 25 points 4 weeks ago

Even if it's attached to a girl, SMH

[–] CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work 18 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

My wife and my buddy who is bi insist that I cannot have normal conversations with other dudes at the alleged gay bar we like to visit sometimes. They say that I am invariably being hit on, but I don't notice anything like that.

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[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 18 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Haven't heard "gay" as a pejorative in real life since high school in the late 90s.

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[–] Dhrystone@infosec.pub 18 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] lickmygiggle@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

All of the comments here are reminding me of how life was 20 years ago and also before I was married with kids.

I genuinely don’t fucking care how feminine somebody thinks something I’m doing is if I’m comfortable or enjoying myself. I’ll drink pink drinks all day if it fucking tastes good LMLML bro.

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[–] tasankovasara@sopuli.xyz 18 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

According to my dad, considering something as 'lovely'. Even if it's the exhaust note of a motorcycle.

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[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 17 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I don't live in a shithole, so nothing.

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