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Stupid Shit Straight Men Consider Manly or Girly

They think beer is real manly, and it was... beer started with the Vikings as a stamina elixir made from a variety of herbs. It was found to rile them up and so in later years only hops (estrogenic and causes‘bitch tits’) were decided to be used. On the other hand they think recycling etc is girly/gay.

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by Anonymousreply 353July 6, 2020 3:57 AM

calling each other dude. bro, bra.....is the shit!

by Anonymousreply 1October 30, 2019 10:05 PM

my straight brother thinks ankle socks are gay....he also won't go out in public with his best male friend unless one of their girlfriends is with them so people don't think they're gay!

by Anonymousreply 2October 30, 2019 10:06 PM

Recycling, electric cars, anything that helps the environment, really.

by Anonymousreply 3October 30, 2019 10:08 PM

They’re horrible conversationalists because they’re afraid to talk about anything but sports and boobs.

by Anonymousreply 4October 30, 2019 10:08 PM

Salad! I was at a bbq once and a woman asked this straight guy if he wanted some salad, he scoffed at her' pfft, salad's for women'.

Straight men gotta have that half kilo of overcooked char grilled meat cause 'you're a fuckin man!'

by Anonymousreply 5October 30, 2019 10:08 PM

R5 LOL at some point in his life, an uncle or someone was like: “only FAGS eat salad!”

by Anonymousreply 6October 30, 2019 10:10 PM

Men's Pocky. Because dark chocolate is for men.

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by Anonymousreply 7October 30, 2019 10:10 PM

You're not a man unless you drive a truck (utility), drink beer, eat red meat three times a day, have a dog...preferably an aggressive one..oh, and it's ok to shove your missus round a bit...she should be in the kitchen anyway!

by Anonymousreply 8October 30, 2019 10:11 PM

add to r8 own a gun! You're not a man unless you own a gun!

by Anonymousreply 9October 30, 2019 10:13 PM

Chapstick specifically for Men is fucking hilarious, as if regular chapstick was for “fucking Queers”.

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by Anonymousreply 10October 30, 2019 10:14 PM

art is for fags, fashions is for fags, anything remotely educational, cultural, classy, academic, is for fags

by Anonymousreply 11October 30, 2019 10:14 PM

I thought beer was invented in ancient Mesopotamia.

by Anonymousreply 12October 30, 2019 10:15 PM

grooming is for fags, you're not a man unless you're unshaven and messy, Conditioner, moisturiser, what are they?

by Anonymousreply 13October 30, 2019 10:17 PM

omg books are for fuckin fags! Unless you're outside doing something physical to exercise your manliness, your a fag! Except videogames, videogames are manly and not immature, not even when you're 45, so fuckin manly.

by Anonymousreply 14October 30, 2019 10:19 PM

you're not your, but I don't care, cause correct spellin and gramma is for fags

by Anonymousreply 15October 30, 2019 10:20 PM

theatre is for fags! real men go watch football and baseball.

by Anonymousreply 16October 30, 2019 10:22 PM

My bro in law is always a good example of anything Deplorable.

He once discovered that his house had a fire pit. He took to gathering spare wood and creating huge bonfires in the pit. I pointed out that there was a leafy limb above the pit that might catch fire. He scoffed. Later I learned that he set the backyard on fire.

So, I think having any concept of consequences, risk vs. reward, is not considered manly for some toxic reason.

by Anonymousreply 17October 30, 2019 10:23 PM

r 17 bit tough man gotta build fire

by Anonymousreply 18October 30, 2019 10:24 PM

r18 make that big not bit, stick can't fuckin spell properly cause I;m a fuckin man!

by Anonymousreply 19October 30, 2019 10:25 PM

still# fuck I need my glasses lol

by Anonymousreply 20October 30, 2019 10:26 PM

R20 no you don’t, bro. Only fags need glasses, real men can see perfect. Or I mean real fucking good, Perfect is kind of a fag word.

by Anonymousreply 21October 30, 2019 10:28 PM

Was watching this youtube video....don't ask me why...this insecure fundie pastor was talking about some shit he had posted on twitter. He said he tweeted something, then stops to say 'tweeting sounds so unmanly,' and his fundie fraus congregation laughed. So, apparently tweeting its unmanly. Who's gonna tell trump?

by Anonymousreply 22October 30, 2019 10:28 PM

r21 ahahahahahaaha so true, glasses are for fags and nerds and aspies

by Anonymousreply 23October 30, 2019 10:29 PM

Apparently bringing your own bags to the grocery store is unmanly. So you fuckin hold all your shit you buy in your arms but you don't look like a dickhead bro, Perhaps they think it's like having a handbag.

by Anonymousreply 24October 30, 2019 10:33 PM

Makeup is for chics and fags. But spray on tan and teeth bleaching is so fuckin manly! Shaving your legs is manly, but only for sports or gym otherwise it's faggy

by Anonymousreply 25October 30, 2019 10:34 PM

“Beer started with the Vikings” - Christ people are so fucking stupid.

Beer predates the Pyramids R1.

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by Anonymousreply 26October 30, 2019 10:35 PM

BBQ outside is fuckin manly, cooking inside is for women.

by Anonymousreply 27October 30, 2019 10:37 PM

R12, it was, it was.

by Anonymousreply 28October 30, 2019 10:37 PM

Southern Straight men are so easy to brainwash, just make them think something is gay and that by doing whatever it is they would lose pussy access. Ultimately though women are the gatekeepers, it’s why you’ll find “environmentally-friendly feminist” guys in Brooklyn because the women want men like that there.

by Anonymousreply 29October 30, 2019 10:37 PM

R26 is a fag who reads books.

by Anonymousreply 30October 30, 2019 10:38 PM

Axe body spray is manly and so are skid marks and dingleberries.

by Anonymousreply 31October 30, 2019 10:43 PM

When I think of a straight man getting insecure about his sexuality or even in a mild situation where maybe he’s asked by the wife to go to a Julia Roberts movie or something, I always imagine it like if Rip Torn was pissed screaming “I ain’t no fucking Queer!”

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by Anonymousreply 32October 30, 2019 10:53 PM

It's manly to eat everything covered in hot sauce. It doesn't matter that you can't taste the food under the hot sauce, only matters that it's so hot it burns your mouth.

by Anonymousreply 33October 30, 2019 11:03 PM

According to a guy at work washing your ass is "some queer shit". I pity his poor wife.

by Anonymousreply 34October 30, 2019 11:04 PM

This thread is so cute.

by Anonymousreply 35October 30, 2019 11:11 PM

My male friends will not eat salad, go to female-led or themed movies, use certain words like “gorgeous,” or read nonfiction because they think it’s “girly.” Some of them are bi, so it’s not just straight dudes.

by Anonymousreply 36October 30, 2019 11:13 PM

Guys don’t cross their legs

by Anonymousreply 37October 30, 2019 11:14 PM

Last year my BIL freaked out because my nephew took a cupcake with yellow frosting instead of chocolate frosting. Apparently yellow frosting is only for girls.

by Anonymousreply 38October 30, 2019 11:18 PM

Dining out at upscale restaurants.

by Anonymousreply 39October 30, 2019 11:20 PM

R38 your nephew sounds like a fudge-packing fag, your BIL too cupcakes is for Queers.

by Anonymousreply 40October 30, 2019 11:24 PM

R2

I had a friend at university who would not have dinner with another male in case others assumed they were a couple.

by Anonymousreply 41October 30, 2019 11:25 PM

Reading the instructions before setting up any moderately complicated electronic equipment or assembling and piece of furniture. My very masculine, hobbyist-welder partner is horrible for this. He also used to hate to ask for directions, trusting his own sense of direction. Now we can both trust the GPS.

Sending thank-you notes or any handwritten letter of any sort is beyond the ability of my nephews. I gave them the stationary and nice pens years ago when their parents agreed they needed to be schooled in adult manners and sent them to Cotillion class. The thank-you notes came shortly after the gift of the pens and never another until they married and their wives started sending them out.

by Anonymousreply 42October 30, 2019 11:37 PM

R36 I remember a guy in college who went on a drunken rant about how he didn’t like any female singer’s music, just their looks.

Another in rich frat boy in college was jokingly told “maybe your gay haha” and exploded about how “there wasn’t a gay bone in my body”

by Anonymousreply 43October 30, 2019 11:39 PM

R42 sounds like Uncle Bottom wasn’t deserving a thank you note for his hole.

by Anonymousreply 44October 30, 2019 11:40 PM

A lot of dudes will not wear a heavy coat because they think it’s Manly to be coatless

by Anonymousreply 45October 30, 2019 11:48 PM

No man should wear a scarf or gloves

by Anonymousreply 46October 30, 2019 11:48 PM

Brass Charivari chair

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by Anonymousreply 47October 30, 2019 11:49 PM

Yeah, guys will not publicly admit to listening to music by females

by Anonymousreply 48October 30, 2019 11:50 PM

Yeah, guys will not publicly admit to listening to music by females

by Anonymousreply 49October 30, 2019 11:50 PM

The French scarf

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by Anonymousreply 50October 30, 2019 11:51 PM

La Grenouille

by Anonymousreply 51October 30, 2019 11:55 PM

Gstaad

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by Anonymousreply 52October 30, 2019 11:57 PM

Très faggy, R50.

by Anonymousreply 53October 30, 2019 11:57 PM

Men go to Verbier not Gstaad. Men do not wear statement scarves. Men buy LC2 chairs by Le Corbusier, although Italian men will appreciate a modern Charivari. Men go to Cellini not La Grenouille.

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by Anonymousreply 54October 31, 2019 12:03 AM

[quote]theatre is for fags! real men go watch football and baseball.

Don't forget wrestling! What could be manlier than watching sweaty muscular men in form-fitting briefs or tights grappling and straining against each other?

by Anonymousreply 55October 31, 2019 12:04 AM

Straight guys don't use the word "lavish".

Anything strawberry or cherry-flavoured is unmanly.

by Anonymousreply 56October 31, 2019 12:19 AM

Cats are for fags.

by Anonymousreply 57October 31, 2019 12:20 AM

Why did OP portray this as things only straight guys consider girly or manly? Straight and bi guys today have the same rules with the emphasis on masculinity in dating. Masc4Masc is an entire movement about dating within these strict gender conventions.

by Anonymousreply 58October 31, 2019 12:27 AM

Yeah, guys don’t like cats

by Anonymousreply 59October 31, 2019 12:27 AM

Talking on the phone leisurely

by Anonymousreply 60October 31, 2019 12:28 AM

I know a guy who only dates guys who are blue dollar and didn’t go to college. He’s says educated and white collar dudes are too “soft” and unmanly. He doesn’t like guys who read books for fun

by Anonymousreply 61October 31, 2019 12:30 AM

R58 yeah, OP excluded the Bi’z!! Cancel him

Shut up, dumbass cunt. We have plenty of masc4masc threads here.

by Anonymousreply 62October 31, 2019 12:33 AM

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by Anonymousreply 63October 31, 2019 1:04 AM

Boasting about how much alcohol you can drink is very manly. Crying is only for pussies.

by Anonymousreply 64October 31, 2019 1:23 AM

-Public Transportation -Electric Cars -Broadway Theatre -Diva Worship

by Anonymousreply 65October 31, 2019 1:56 AM

^ Girly

by Anonymousreply 66October 31, 2019 1:58 AM

Team Sports - Manly

Individual Sports -. Faggy

by Anonymousreply 67October 31, 2019 1:59 AM

Handsome straight dude brahs who graduated from Vassar.

by Anonymousreply 68October 31, 2019 1:59 AM

Cotillion class.?? wtf, is this 1850?

by Anonymousreply 69October 31, 2019 7:17 AM

R12 R28 History is girly. And you're wrong. Vikings = beer = real men

Got it? All for now. I'm going outside to howl at the moon.

by Anonymousreply 70October 31, 2019 7:27 AM

The salad thing is real. I had a friend from Mexico who was openly gay from a wealthy family. He told me one time at lunch that in Mexico only woman eat salads and was very shocked to see men doing that in the US even at lunch. He wasn't complaining, but it was something he was taught growing up. Before that I never thought of food as being masculine or famine but it kind of makes sense since the Spanish language and many others refer to objects as if they have a specific gender.

by Anonymousreply 71October 31, 2019 7:31 AM

That's because they are woman R63

by Anonymousreply 72October 31, 2019 7:33 AM

English used to have more gendered language but obviously nothing like a proper Romance language. Speaking of salads and lunch, "to lunch" is a gendered verb. Men do not lunch (verb). They eat/have (verb) lunch (noun).

by Anonymousreply 73October 31, 2019 7:43 AM

Gorgeous, Fabulous, Lavish, Marvelous, Superb, Fab, Girlfriend, Daddy Bear, Bitch, Mary, Twink, Duvet Cover = All gay

by Anonymousreply 74October 31, 2019 7:45 AM

The Data Lounge is girly, not manly

by Anonymousreply 75October 31, 2019 8:31 AM

The obsession with Judy Garland is girly, feminine and embarrassing

by Anonymousreply 76October 31, 2019 8:32 AM

Lots of nelly queens posting

by Anonymousreply 77October 31, 2019 10:28 AM

Using an umbrella, buying anything from Starbucks

Also I never heard of salad as unmanly, lots of straughtfitness bro type guys I work out with eat salad, usually with chicken or some other protien

by Anonymousreply 78October 31, 2019 11:02 AM

R78 good one, using an umbrella for flyover straights is unfathomable, they might as well fuck a guy. What a bunch of idiots.

by Anonymousreply 79October 31, 2019 11:06 AM

One of my favorite scenes in Death Wish II is Paul Kersey visiting his GF at the hospital she works at. They're in the cafeteria picking up food and as they sit down and talk his GF says, "I didn't know you liked quiche." Kersey says, "I thought it was pie". He takes a bite and says, "It's good!".

I love that because it was about the time that some douchebag wrote a book called Real Men Don't Eat Quiche. It was a poke in the eye to the author and his followers.

by Anonymousreply 80October 31, 2019 12:35 PM

Unless you're from a European or Asian background, het men think taking care of your mother is unmanly. Taking care of your father is ok, but apparently your mother can die in a ditch.

by Anonymousreply 81October 31, 2019 12:37 PM

There's a healthy foid place next to my gym and all the male gym guys eat there, their menu's have things on it like "Protein bulding salad" etc

They sell more salads than anything, so I don't think in the US anyway that salad is unmanly

by Anonymousreply 82October 31, 2019 1:01 PM

Earrings

Caftans

by Anonymousreply 83October 31, 2019 1:12 PM

[quote] Unless you're from a European or Asian background

In other words. . Most of the entire world

by Anonymousreply 84October 31, 2019 1:13 PM

Ballet is the way gays can recruit young men.

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by Anonymousreply 85October 31, 2019 1:13 PM

Men twirling flags and spinning rifles is really gay.

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by Anonymousreply 86October 31, 2019 1:14 PM

I know a dude who will NOT eat hot dogs. Phallic symbol and all.

by Anonymousreply 87October 31, 2019 1:33 PM

Rural and southern men are more likely to adhere to the manly Versus girly rules. I see lots of jock type bros eating salads in big Northeast cities, but in the Rural South, doing so openly might make you into a hate crime victim. Likewise, using an umbrella. Wearing a scarf is forbidden everywhere except The Northeast, unless elderly.

by Anonymousreply 88October 31, 2019 1:34 PM

Desserts with bananas in them, supposedly. Wedding planners have been known to veto these choices on the grounds that male guests don't touch them.

by Anonymousreply 89October 31, 2019 1:42 PM

I don’t like bananas

by Anonymousreply 90October 31, 2019 2:00 PM

Applying sunscreen properly = gay. Forget asking one of their buddies to apply some on his back.

by Anonymousreply 91October 31, 2019 2:12 PM

Manly fashion

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by Anonymousreply 92October 31, 2019 2:21 PM

A certain subset of straight men thinks watching foreign films is ‘gay.’ Personally, I think it’s the subtitles that get to them — all that reading, the words go by too fast!

by Anonymousreply 93October 31, 2019 2:45 PM

The view that reading is girly really is huge. Teachers report it starts early and inhibits boys from excelling in reading and English, by intentional avoidance

by Anonymousreply 94October 31, 2019 2:48 PM

Additionally, there is an American identity centered around anti-intellectualism that inhibits young people from wanting to appear too smart

by Anonymousreply 95October 31, 2019 2:49 PM

Hmmmm.... even as a kid I always liked banana ice cream. Here in Seattle, men will often enough wear a hat rather than use an umbrella.

Reading seems more class-related, where the "poorly educated" (as our prez would put it) women read lowbrow stuff like romance novels, or anything by Jodi Picoult, etc.

Do real men drink wine?

I admit I hate making grocery lists! Perhaps there's an allergen for that on the Y chromosome?

by Anonymousreply 96October 31, 2019 2:54 PM

R93 and R94, that is truly sad.

by Anonymousreply 97October 31, 2019 2:59 PM

owning a cat

by Anonymousreply 98October 31, 2019 3:09 PM

You know what this thread is showing? That it isn't gay men who are 'straight acting' - it is straight men themselves who are putting on an act pretty much all the time.

But only a faggy brainbox who has read (the fag) Foucault (the faggy fag).

by Anonymousreply 99October 31, 2019 3:39 PM

...would say that.

But pressing send before you've completed your post - is that faggy or straight acting?

by Anonymousreply 100October 31, 2019 3:40 PM

Millennials have masculinized drinking wine, although class is a factor, Beer consumption is flat or down amongst younger people

by Anonymousreply 101October 31, 2019 3:48 PM

[quote]my straight brother thinks ankle socks are gay....he also won't go out in public with his best male friend unless one of their girlfriends is with them so people don't think they're gay!

R2 If you want fuck with his head tell your brother that people will think the girlfriend is a faghag

by Anonymousreply 102October 31, 2019 3:53 PM

[quote]I gave them the stationary and nice pens years ago when their parents agreed they needed to be schooled in adult manners and sent them to Cotillion class.

What do they teach in "Cotillion class?" How to be nice to your slaves?

by Anonymousreply 103October 31, 2019 4:09 PM

Ankle socks And no shows are huge with gym bros

by Anonymousreply 104October 31, 2019 4:15 PM

Knee socks are manly....as long as they’re worn while killing motherfucking WODs with one’s bros at the box.

Yoga pants are manly....as long as they’re called compression tights and worn under baggy shorts while killing motherfucking WODs with one’s bros at the box.

by Anonymousreply 105October 31, 2019 4:38 PM

What are WOD's?

by Anonymousreply 106October 31, 2019 4:46 PM

Probably Workout of the Day.

by Anonymousreply 107October 31, 2019 4:52 PM

Workout Of (the) Day, in Crossfit

by Anonymousreply 108October 31, 2019 4:52 PM

Manly Standards vary based upon region, urbanity, age, education, ethnicity, and class.

by Anonymousreply 109October 31, 2019 5:23 PM

Blue collar dudes in the rural south And Midwest have the most rigid masculinity standards.

by Anonymousreply 110October 31, 2019 5:24 PM

I love R102 and he is a genius

by Anonymousreply 111October 31, 2019 6:43 PM

Over the years I've learned, according to my straight brother, these things are for fags:

Singing in public, like the school choir

Acting in a school play

Working in retail

Driving a compact car

Owning a cat

Watching old B&W movies

Wearing tank tops

Eating foreign food unless it's Chinese take out

Playing with action figures like GI Joes

Playing softball

Olympic wrestling

Having a party without any girls present

BBQing small cuts of beef, chicken or pork chops

Wearing cologne

Wearing bright colours except for safety vests

Wearing new work boots to work

The list is endless and exhuasting

by Anonymousreply 112October 31, 2019 6:57 PM

Guys who dont say “bro” or “dude” are “suspect,” my class says.

by Anonymousreply 113October 31, 2019 8:30 PM

I think that's him about foreign food. I've run across masc guys who are fine with it.

by Anonymousreply 114October 31, 2019 8:33 PM

True about the endless list of shit that some straight guys think of as "gay" or at the very least "unmasculine." I imagine it must be exhausting to have so many prohibitions in life.

by Anonymousreply 115October 31, 2019 8:34 PM

Again, why is this referred to as only a straight guy fixation? Many gay and bi dudes have the same views

by Anonymousreply 116October 31, 2019 8:39 PM

R116 much more extreme and pervasive for straight men. Feel free to discuss Gay/Bi men here or go to a Masc4Masc thread...

by Anonymousreply 117October 31, 2019 8:50 PM

Turn signals are for fags! I drive how I want!

by Anonymousreply 118October 31, 2019 9:00 PM

R116

I've always found ankle socks on men to be incredibly effeminate, reminding me of the "peds" my mom wore when I was a kid.

by Anonymousreply 119October 31, 2019 9:12 PM

White wine is for women and fags. Sweet white wine is really for fags

by Anonymousreply 120October 31, 2019 9:12 PM

Condoms are stupid. Birth control is a woman's responsibility. Just let me worry about the fucking and she can worry about what happens after.

by Anonymousreply 121October 31, 2019 9:15 PM

Old masculine Swiss, German and Austrian codgers drink white wine all afternoon.

by Anonymousreply 122October 31, 2019 9:16 PM

Also I'm a college prof and ALL the bros wear invisible socks. Its very pleasant because they are still wearing flood water jeans, cut that way or rolled, and young men have virile hair all the way down to their ankles.

by Anonymousreply 123October 31, 2019 9:19 PM

A lot of this has to do with class and intelligence. Most intelligent straight men from upper middle-class and upper classes wouldn't have a problem with most of these things. It's mostly only dumb, ill-educated, lower class types who have these ridiculous fixations on masculinity. The young and immature from the middle and upper classes might have these attitudes too but would most likely outgrow it with maturity and education. Straight men from rural areas probably have these attitudes regardless of class however.

by Anonymousreply 124October 31, 2019 9:19 PM

the short suit trouser with dress shoes and no socks looks fuckin ridiculous and faggy andI loathe it but even straight bro hipsters seem to all be into it.

by Anonymousreply 125October 31, 2019 9:22 PM

R124 yeah maybe on the UES in Manhattan. You’ve obviously never met some super rich frat boys from Texas.

by Anonymousreply 126October 31, 2019 9:25 PM

Having a dessert with a meal.

by Anonymousreply 127October 31, 2019 9:26 PM

r126 obviously never read my last sentence

by Anonymousreply 128October 31, 2019 9:31 PM

I don't think working in retail is "gay", maybe cashiering orcworkibg in clothes/softlines but who do you think unloads those trucks in the backroom warehouses of those big retailers and operate forklifts and other equipment?

Mostly all straight blue collar men

by Anonymousreply 129October 31, 2019 9:31 PM

Not many straight men are into yoga. But yoga is tough, and they couldn't do it anyway.

by Anonymousreply 130October 31, 2019 9:32 PM

I once heard a douchebro say this after a co-worker told everyone his wife was pregnant, "Having a baby is totally fucking gay!"

by Anonymousreply 131October 31, 2019 9:34 PM

There's a tv show in Britain called Top Gear. A bunch of middle aged dude bro wankers talking about and driving cars fast. One of the presenters got ripped a few years ago for saying he never eats ice cream cones because 'it's kinda gay,' What an insecure cunt!

by Anonymousreply 132October 31, 2019 9:35 PM

R131 a lot of straight guys use "gay" as in corny or stupid not actually meaning gay gay

Two buddies I work with always says,"That's so gay" or "You're so gay" to one another over sports and shit, they say it meaning "You're retarded"

by Anonymousreply 133October 31, 2019 9:37 PM

Barbers are cool manly bros. Male hairdressers are fags!

by Anonymousreply 134October 31, 2019 9:38 PM

Being present at your children's birth used to be solely a woman's domain. No man would ever be caught dead in a maternity ward with midwives. Vaginas are only for sexual pleasure, no man wanted to see it mutilated and giving birth. Neither of my grandfathers were present for any of their children's births, It wasn't the done thing

by Anonymousreply 135October 31, 2019 9:42 PM

r126 I wouldn't call rich frat boys from Texas or their families upper class, they're just cashed- up lower middle class. The word class would denote that.

by Anonymousreply 136October 31, 2019 9:45 PM

I associate port wine with cigars.

Thought I'd mention the time that I overheard a group of them discussing hunting. When it came to how to cook the venison, they were swapping recipes like a bunch of old biddies at a quilting bee!

by Anonymousreply 137October 31, 2019 9:47 PM

This reminds me of the douchebros who go on grindr identifying as straight but looking for dick. Men who have sex with men they're called, but they're not gay, bro

by Anonymousreply 138October 31, 2019 9:52 PM

Small cars and sedans are for women and fags! A man drives a pickup/SUV/4WD

by Anonymousreply 139October 31, 2019 10:03 PM

I have found that the "straight men" most concerned with denoting what is manly or girly, tend to be looking for cock on the down low. I live in the South and plenty of guys eat salad, use umbrellas, and wear scarves, etc... just like everywhere else, because MOST men are secure in their masculinity. The ones who are insecure are jokes to other men, regardless of sexuality.

That being said the umbrella one comes from the military. In most situations they are forbidden from using them while in uniform, except when in Class A and B uniforms. Since, in recent times, most military members spend the vast majority of their time in the service in fatigues even when not deployed they help to spread the feeling that umbrellas are un-masculine.

by Anonymousreply 140October 31, 2019 10:05 PM

On the upside, went to my 20 year school reunion.. All the straight guys looked terrible. Fat, bald/balding, aged skin from the sun, wrinkles, yellow-teethed and sloppily dressed. Gay men look after themselves, everyone said I looked great. Albeit no one can help being bald, although I take medication to keep mine after my twin brother lost his.

by Anonymousreply 141October 31, 2019 10:08 PM

R36, maybe they don't go female-led or -themed movies because they prefer to look at men and enjoy movies with strong male characters more.

This is one thing I don't understand about gay male culture. I like men. I'm attracted to men, and I also am one. Movies and TV shows that are dominated by women are of limited interest to me - not no interest at all, but limited. Why are they so popular in gay culture? The old ones, from mid-century and earlier, I understand. They're fun because of the clothes and hair and music, etc. And I sort of get diva worship, although I don't share it. But just ordinary TV shows that are dominated by female characters? Why would someone who is a man and is attracted to men be interested in that?

by Anonymousreply 142October 31, 2019 10:27 PM

[quote]they say it meaning "You're retarded"

You're so fucking gay R133!

by Anonymousreply 143October 31, 2019 10:31 PM

A straight man wrote into a health magazine asking if he should stop kissing and hugging his18 month old son because he was concerned it might make him gay! The doctor told him there was more danger for the child's emotional development if he WASN'T intimate and bonding with him. She explained to the dumb cunt that there was no way intimacy and bonding could cause homosexuality. Fuck she must have laughed.

by Anonymousreply 144October 31, 2019 10:33 PM

When I was 12 years old I learned from my brother that small chocolate bars, like Snickers or Mars bars, were for fucking homos. Regular guys buy a Mr. Big or Oh Henry. Oddly enough he hasn't changed his opinion after all these years.

by Anonymousreply 145October 31, 2019 10:35 PM

Getting naked in the locker room is now gay. Jesus Christ.

by Anonymousreply 146October 31, 2019 10:35 PM

R142, I don’t understand why a subset of gay men are so into feminine things and emulate women. It’s baffling to me how they study, criticize, mimic, idolize, and hang around women. I’m a guy. I’m attracted to males, but more importantly I identify with men. I usually don’t listen to female music because it’s written from a female perspective that I can’t understand. I’m not into divas because they are so unlike me as a man. I’m not teething effeminate men, but it is just bizarre to me.

by Anonymousreply 147October 31, 2019 10:38 PM

To me it is more bizarre for straight men to prefer male singers, as I associate singing with intimacy. Also most music is just written from the human perspective, not a male or female specific one.

by Anonymousreply 148October 31, 2019 10:44 PM

So I have a twin brother. Yes he is gay. He isn't out. He's married to a woman with a (IVF) baby on the way. He thinks no one knows he is gay. I found gay porn on his computer years ago and a friend of mine found him on grindr and screenshot his profile and sent it to me. My brother has been so fuckin cruel to me about my sexuality, He's a cunt and a hypocrite. I don't know why I don't out him. He pretends to be a douchebro. He's always saying gay slurs under his breath and thinks he's funny. Someone is always 'as gay as AIDS' etc. He goes on with a lot of the shit people have posted on here in an attempt to avert attention away from his own sexuality. So these is merit in the saying ; the bigger the homophobe the bigger the closet case.

by Anonymousreply 149October 31, 2019 10:46 PM

^ Holy Shit!

by Anonymousreply 150October 31, 2019 10:49 PM

r150 it puts me in a very difficult position and I wish I didn't know

by Anonymousreply 151October 31, 2019 10:50 PM

As several of you have already noted, this is 100% a social class issue, not a gay/straight issue. What most of you are describing as "gay" are things that all upper middle class men, gay, straight or undecided have in common. (At least the ones under 50 in the Blue Zone.)

And the one poster whose brother is constantly calling out random things he thinks are "gay" -- you don't need to be Freud to figure out what the thought process behind that is.

Many of these are very funny though. Ankle socks? Desserts with bananas? Starbucks.

Perhaps the Deplorables look at the upper middle class men in their city and assume the upscale burbs have been occupied by homosexuals and thus vote for Trump?

I learn so much from DL

by Anonymousreply 152October 31, 2019 10:56 PM

R143 i would never call someobe gay as in retarded but straight people use it all the time without meaning "gay"

Example

"Dude your 49ers suck, you should become a Cowboys fan like me, we got the NFC East this year"

Other guy, "Oh shut up,you're so gay, Ill never be a Cowboys fan"

by Anonymousreply 153October 31, 2019 10:56 PM

"You shoulda seen them Darlene! A whole back of ho-mo-secks-you-ulls wearing shirts that said Citibank 10K on 'em... with them short socks like you gals wear! They was all folding their little umbrellies up when they went into that there Starbucks place and came out with them fancy cold coffees!! I never seed so many of 'em in my life. One even had him a pink shirt on. I bet he was the leader."

by Anonymousreply 154October 31, 2019 10:59 PM

A lot is a class thing. The lower class being jealous of the cultured/wealthy/educated upper classes. 'They wear nice clothes and go to fancy restaurants therefore they must be gay!' You envy someone so you tear them down to make yourself feel better, You don't understand someone, you tear them down. The British and Australians call it tall poppy syndrome.

by Anonymousreply 155October 31, 2019 11:04 PM

Interesting R140?

I thought it came from 8th grade when you were first hitting adolescence and not wearing a winter coat or hat or carrying an umbrella in the rain was the height of cool because it was all about rebelling from your parents and showing that you were your own person, no matter how cold or wet you might be.

Most of us seemed to get over that before college.

by Anonymousreply 156October 31, 2019 11:05 PM

r156 It was rebellion but it was also to show you were a big tough man, you could withstand the cold and wet and it made you robust and strong.

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by Anonymousreply 157October 31, 2019 11:08 PM

The lower classes think the cultured are homosexuals. Simple. It's always been this way.

by Anonymousreply 158October 31, 2019 11:10 PM

What is manly and what is girly are just social constructs. These men who carry on like this (by no means all straight men) are innately insecure. They're immature, uncultured, overly status conscious to the point of paranoia, and I fail to see how they can be very intelligent or that well educated.

by Anonymousreply 159October 31, 2019 11:20 PM

Going through this now. Someone should compile these because so many of the ideas reflected here are a phenomenal snapshot of the massive class differences we now have in America and why both sides find each other unrecognizable.

Here are just a few that blow me away because they're not even a remote thought in my America, with the UMC response in italics afterwards

[quote] The view that reading is girly really is huge. Teachers report it starts early and inhibits boys from excelling in reading and English, by intentional avoidance

[quote] omg books are for fuckin fags! Unless you're outside doing something physical to exercise your manliness, your a fag!

[quote] Recycling, electric cars, anything that helps the environment, really.

[quote] Salad! I was at a bbq once and a woman asked this straight guy if he wanted some salad, he scoffed at her' pfft, salad's for women'.

[quote] My male friends will not eat salad, go to female-led or themed movies...read nonfiction because they think it’s “girly.”

[quote] grooming is for fags, you're not a man unless you're unshaven and messy,

How do you impress your date or your client if you look like you've spent the last week writing code?

[quote] Dining out at upscale restaurants.

[quote] guys will not publicly admit to listening to music by females

[quote] A certain subset of straight men thinks watching foreign films is ‘gay.’

I'm sure my fellow travelers on DL can find more.

by Anonymousreply 160October 31, 2019 11:25 PM

Millennial Friend, it's purely a class thing. Unfortunately lower class attitudes have become predominate in popular culture, therefore it's popular to have these views. I really don't come across these types of people but I am aware of them.

by Anonymousreply 161October 31, 2019 11:32 PM

A lot of Trumpism is fueled by disdain And resentment towards things perceiveD as feminine or soft in our culture. The culture wars are in essence a war between those who want a uber masculine culture versus those who desire a more feminine culture. That’s why the war on toxic masculinity elicits such a visceral backlash.

by Anonymousreply 162October 31, 2019 11:33 PM

The no coats in winter thing has become very popular. In fact, it’s become common for dudes to wear shorts when it’s freezing cold and snowing just to show how tough and manly they are.

by Anonymousreply 163November 1, 2019 12:10 AM

[quote] In fact, it’s become common for dudes to wear shorts when it’s freezing cold and snowing just to show how tough and manly they are.

And then they celebrate their 25th birthday and realize how dumb wearing shorts in winter was.

by Anonymousreply 164November 1, 2019 1:32 AM

Huh?

by Anonymousreply 165November 1, 2019 1:38 AM

[quote]I've always found ankle socks on men to be incredibly effeminate, reminding me of the "peds" my mom wore when I was a kid.

I don't know about effeminate, but they're ugly as hell. I'd have to resort to 70s Disco-wear to name an item of clothing more effective at dispelling an otherwise hot guy's appeal.

by Anonymousreply 166November 1, 2019 6:10 AM

i think ankle socks look sexy

by Anonymousreply 167November 1, 2019 7:04 AM

I’m so glad I don’t know these people. How tiresome and juvenile. It’s so performative: they’re slaves to sitcom stereotypes.

At my gym, almost half the attendees of yoga classes are straight men (Equinox in Century City).

Everyone eats salad. Barbecue is for peasants. All the wealthy people I secretly envy are vegan or almost vegan.

by Anonymousreply 168November 1, 2019 7:35 AM

The guys in OP’s pic are supposed to be straight bros? With that kind of physical intimacy?

by Anonymousreply 169November 1, 2019 7:36 AM

I love the snobs on here, 'I've never known anyone like this. You're all plebs!'

by Anonymousreply 170November 1, 2019 7:57 AM

Someone sounds like a flyover.

by Anonymousreply 171November 1, 2019 8:11 AM

Gay boys are worse than bros for under dressing in winter

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by Anonymousreply 172November 1, 2019 8:23 AM

Gaybros are a thing ya know

by Anonymousreply 173November 1, 2019 11:53 AM

I gained weight a few years back and got a prominent gut. Was told by a few straights I looked manlier with the extra pounds.

by Anonymousreply 174November 1, 2019 12:00 PM

Mitt Romney is gay.

by Anonymousreply 175November 1, 2019 12:16 PM

A lot of it is classist and regional resentment. Hatred for intellectuals and people who live in cities has given us Trump

by Anonymousreply 176November 1, 2019 12:25 PM

Isn't it weird that so many str8 men shave their pubes and legs trying to look like women

by Anonymousreply 177November 1, 2019 12:46 PM

Some of y’all must be posting from 1989 because ankle socks are wildly popular with dudebros today. See Instagram.

by Anonymousreply 178November 1, 2019 12:49 PM

It is very manly to drive fast enough to frighten your passenger, and never EVER let anyone cut in front of you (even on a multi-lane road). The act of letting someone cut in front of you will turn you gay on the spot.

Apparently gay men are constitutionally unable to drive fast.

These tenets hold true across all classes and all levels of education.

by Anonymousreply 179November 1, 2019 1:09 PM

Dieting / admitting to dieting.

by Anonymousreply 180November 1, 2019 1:15 PM

Dudes never call it dieting. We call it “eating clean” or “cutting.” Females call it dieting.

by Anonymousreply 181November 1, 2019 1:17 PM

Dudes don’t drink Diet soda, except for Coke Zero, which is made for males

by Anonymousreply 182November 1, 2019 1:19 PM

So many of them obviously do care about their weight but will never admit it.

by Anonymousreply 183November 1, 2019 1:40 PM

Dudes care about their weight by lifting weight, taking supplements, and eating clean to get ripped. It’s how we do it

by Anonymousreply 184November 1, 2019 1:46 PM

[quote] Dudes never call it dieting. We call it “eating clean” or “cutting.” Females call it dieting.

Plenty of women are learning the lingo R181

FWIW, I find that the people of both sexes who talk about dieting all the time are the ones who never actually lose any weight.

And this thread all goes back to my comment on the political threads, which is that Trump's campaign slogan would truthfully be "What? You Think You're Better Than Me?"

If you think about it, his appeal on The Apprentice was seeing all of "those people who think they're better than us" get fired and put in their place. Trump was wish fulfillment for Deps.

by Anonymousreply 185November 1, 2019 4:10 PM

I can’t stand that term eating clean. I used to work with someone who was always talking about that and would eat chicken nuggets. They must have been scrubbed clean at the slaughter house?

by Anonymousreply 186November 1, 2019 4:26 PM

Yep Trump won by tapping into American resentment toward “cultural elites” and cosmopolitans.

by Anonymousreply 187November 1, 2019 4:30 PM

My Dad loved books, poetry (he even wrote some himself), classical music (he played the violin), cats, in fact all animals, and taking my mother to movies of her choice. He was as masculine as Ernest Hemingway, without the tendency for suicide.

I've noticed that farting in public is sometimes a manly thing.

by Anonymousreply 188November 1, 2019 5:01 PM

Yes, farting in public seems to be a thing. And so is either hoarding one’s snot and snorting it up loudly for hours on end (get a goddamn Kleenex, will ya?) or doing what in my country is referred to as the ‘hockey blow.’ You can use your imaginations to figure that one out.

by Anonymousreply 189November 1, 2019 8:30 PM

Wearing baseball caps everywhere is huge, Including to the office, to funerals, and to weddings.

by Anonymousreply 190November 1, 2019 8:39 PM

Cargo shorts are the ugliest garment ever designed and only straight men still wear them.

by Anonymousreply 191November 1, 2019 8:53 PM

Not in Middle America. Lots of gay dudes wear them here

by Anonymousreply 192November 1, 2019 8:56 PM

R16 yes, football (or soccer for the Kismets) is for Lads only. Proper LADS.

The little shorts and thin tight-fitting shirts? The stripping to celebrate? All that touching, kissing, massaging each other's shoulders when in play? Just boys being boys and getting all that testosterone & energy out while bonding. Same for the fans who obsessively follow good-looking players and snog each other in pubs when their side wins/cry on each other when they lose - nothing gay about it, just a bit of homosociality.

Listen to adorable Oxbridge posho Joe Thomas tell you a very hetero anecdote (c.5:00) of the opponent he once had who squeezed his balls mid-match and called him "pretty" before asking him where his boyfriend was, purely to intimidate him and put him off his game of course.

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by Anonymousreply 193November 1, 2019 9:32 PM

From what I see on the street dressing like children in baseball caps, team jerseys, shorts and sandals.

by Anonymousreply 194November 1, 2019 11:19 PM

None of these images of culture, literacy and good manners = gay would have gained traction if they weren't propagated by the media.

Old movies and TV shows often had gentlemanly, cultivated men who were also heterosexual. (They only portrayed heterosexuals, so it was a given.) That was abandoned a long time ago, and we see the results.

by Anonymousreply 195November 2, 2019 12:03 AM

Beer was created by women...for a certain part of history, only women were allowed to brew it. The modern idea of beer as "manly" is absolutely hilarious.

by Anonymousreply 196November 2, 2019 12:12 AM

R195 CORRECT

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by Anonymousreply 197November 2, 2019 12:15 AM

Is that Jane Hathaway with the arm around the guy in the foreground of the picture?

by Anonymousreply 198November 2, 2019 12:20 AM

It’s the era of being the perpetual dudebro. Even professionals wanna be the cool bro

by Anonymousreply 199November 2, 2019 1:33 AM

R112 wrote:

[quote]Wearing tank tops

Really? I thought muscular young blue collar guys liked to wear wifebeaters.

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by Anonymousreply 200November 2, 2019 2:07 AM

Or do you mean the low cut tank tops that show more than 3/4 of your chest?

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by Anonymousreply 201November 2, 2019 2:09 AM

Tank tops are considered cool

by Anonymousreply 202November 2, 2019 2:11 AM

Though straight guys might find this photo questionable.

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by Anonymousreply 203November 2, 2019 2:13 AM

Crossing your legs like this.

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by Anonymousreply 204November 2, 2019 2:21 AM

This is the correct way to do it. It looks perfectly natural and normal and comfortable. It doesn't look at all like the guy is trying way too hard to be masculine.

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by Anonymousreply 205November 2, 2019 2:24 AM

Chris Pine shows us several things douchebro straight guys find "queer" : Legs crossed, too-tight pants, no socks with dress shoes and sculpted hair full of product.

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by Anonymousreply 206November 2, 2019 2:29 AM

Owning a cat instead of a dog.

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by Anonymousreply 207November 2, 2019 2:31 AM

Which is funny because I'm pretty sure Threesupermen on chaturbate is straight and likes cats.

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by Anonymousreply 208November 2, 2019 2:35 AM

Same with the two Russian guys, Phill_Jones.

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by Anonymousreply 209November 2, 2019 2:39 AM

[quote]i would never call someobe gay as in retarded

Does this qualify as unintentional irony?

by Anonymousreply 210November 2, 2019 2:40 AM

Going out for brunch is considered gay.

by Anonymousreply 211November 2, 2019 2:50 AM

Using a straw to sip a drink.

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by Anonymousreply 212November 2, 2019 3:08 AM

Dudes judge dudes for drinking girly drinks

by Anonymousreply 213November 2, 2019 3:18 AM

My str8 brother says espadrilles are gay.

by Anonymousreply 214November 2, 2019 3:35 AM

What is that?

by Anonymousreply 215November 2, 2019 3:37 AM

Singing songs popularized by female artists

by Anonymousreply 216November 2, 2019 3:37 AM

r216 probably best to read the thread before you post

by Anonymousreply 217November 2, 2019 3:50 AM

[quote]a lot of straight guys use "gay" as in corny or stupid not actually meaning gay gay. Two buddies I work with always says,"That's so gay" or "You're so gay" to one another over sports and shit, they say it meaning "You're retarded"

Yeah, its called homophobia and it's a slur. That was very common 20 years ago when my nieces and nephew used it, lots of kids were using that as the default insult at the time. Thankfully their parents corrected them and explained to them what they were doing even though in their mind they didn't mean it that way. But that was 20 fucking years ago, how old are your two buddies?

by Anonymousreply 218November 2, 2019 8:34 AM

[quote]Using a straw to sip a drink.

Straws are ok, but according to some straight Fraus I saw in TV once any man who drinks from the bendy kind is gay.

by Anonymousreply 219November 2, 2019 8:35 AM

R218 early 20s

by Anonymousreply 220November 2, 2019 8:39 AM

I cross my legs like that all the time R205. I cant even do it the other way, it hurts my hips for some reason. Ironically I was accused for being a poser by another gay man just because that's the way I sit. Apparently gay men have more of an issue with that than straight men do.

by Anonymousreply 221November 2, 2019 8:40 AM

[quote] None of these images of culture, literacy and good manners = gay would have gained traction if they weren't propagated by the media. Old movies and TV shows often had gentlemanly, cultivated men who were also heterosexual.

And they were call Fancy Pants. Wink, Wink = Gay

by Anonymousreply 222November 2, 2019 8:42 AM

Tim on 90 day...is thought of as a girly man but I don"t think so.

by Anonymousreply 223November 2, 2019 8:45 AM

Apparently at one time knitting was done by men, at least amongst the "working classes," especially fishermen or farmers. Women would spin the yarn, etc., but the men actually knit the sweaters or caps. Actually, a cousin of mine did all the knitting for his family and he was quite good at it.

by Anonymousreply 224November 2, 2019 9:03 AM

Farting and burping is big with men, we bond over it as well as any type of bathroom humor

Women talk about their "feelings", men talk about their farts

by Anonymousreply 225November 2, 2019 9:10 AM

Farting and burping is big with men, we bond over it as well as any type of bathroom humor

Women talk about their "feelings", men talk about their farts

by Anonymousreply 226November 2, 2019 9:10 AM

Men who cook in the home are seen as gay. Which is weird when you think about it because 99% of the best chefs in the world are men.

Ditto for men who bake. Yet same rule applies, most pastry chefs are men.

by Anonymousreply 227November 2, 2019 9:24 AM

Ironically the two guys in the pic OP posted are both quite pretty and feminine looking

by Anonymousreply 228November 2, 2019 10:38 AM

R218. A lot of teenage boys still use the word that's so gay even now. The hardcore ones still use the word faggot or fag. I hear them yapping to each other about some kid acting mad gay.

by Anonymousreply 229November 2, 2019 11:10 AM

Using gay as a slur was popular in the 80s when I was a kid. It's been around forever and I don't see that changing. Then you had South Park some years back doing an episode saying fag was ok too.

Don't you just love hets?

by Anonymousreply 230November 2, 2019 11:16 AM

“Gay” as an insult still is widely used. “No homo” still is popular too.

by Anonymousreply 231November 2, 2019 12:04 PM

If nothing else, this thread has made me realize how hard all you Flyoverstani and blue collar gays have it.

There's very little that I do that makes me stand out from straight guys my age/in my social groups/that I work with.

Whereas with you all it seems that everything you do makes you seem different and "weird" and apart.

Even though we're doing the same thing.

In many ways it explains the fascination with social class on here.

by Anonymousreply 232November 2, 2019 12:12 PM

R232 not necessarily. A masculine gay guy in America doesn’t stand out unless he’s holding his boyfriend’s hand in Wal-Mart. Being a masculine male means you blend in with the mainstream everywhere.

by Anonymousreply 233November 2, 2019 12:24 PM

Lots of straight guys are just hiding.

by Anonymousreply 234November 2, 2019 12:48 PM

Rural gay men tend to be much more masculine than urban ones

by Anonymousreply 235November 2, 2019 12:49 PM

YourMillennialFriend's ancestors were dirt poor shtetl dwellers, but he likes to act like he's so above it all.

by Anonymousreply 236November 2, 2019 2:16 PM

[quote]I cross my legs like that all the time R205. I cant even do it the other way, it hurts my hips for some reason. Ironically I was accused for being a poser by another gay man just because that's the way I sit. Apparently gay men have more of an issue with that than straight men do.

I would think it's more comfortable to not cross your legs at all than to do it the "masculine" way.

by Anonymousreply 237November 2, 2019 3:04 PM

Crossing legs is uncomfortable

by Anonymousreply 238November 2, 2019 3:05 PM

Brits are fags because they talk like fags.

by Anonymousreply 239November 2, 2019 3:08 PM

Drinking tea instead of coffee.

by Anonymousreply 240November 2, 2019 3:42 PM

Reading books like this.

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by Anonymousreply 241November 2, 2019 3:46 PM

or this

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by Anonymousreply 242November 2, 2019 3:47 PM

Using your full first name is gay, eg. Michael instead of Mike.

by Anonymousreply 243November 2, 2019 3:51 PM

That’s true R243. Almost every gay man I know does that, and they get all prissy if you mistakenly call them the shorter “Mike” once in a while.

by Anonymousreply 244November 2, 2019 3:58 PM

[quote] YourMillennialFriend's ancestors were dirt poor shtetl dwellers, but he likes to act like he's so above it all.

Only on one side (and they were German so probably more of a ghetto in 1840s Frankfurt than an actual shtetl.)

The other side were poor farmers from Wales who emigrated to Maryland in the 1870s.

Mortifying I know, given that the vast majority of DLers are descended from the millions of landed gentry (barons, earls and the like) who left England, Sweden and the Protestant parts of Germany to seek their fortunes in America.

SMH

by Anonymousreply 245November 2, 2019 4:05 PM

Except R233 that definition of "masculine" as reported by DLers seems increasingly narrow.

If I go to a business lunch in NY, SF or LA, it's like a competition among the straight 40 and 50 year old men to see who can order the healthiest ("cleanest") lunch, which frequently means some sort of salad involving kale.

I guess everyone adapts, but it must be pretty hard to have to always be thinking about whether things you are doing come off as "gay"

by Anonymousreply 246November 2, 2019 4:08 PM

Y’all know and hang out with some of the most stereotypical people I’ve ever heard of, gay and straight. Or are you just stuck in 1992?

by Anonymousreply 247November 2, 2019 4:31 PM

The latter R247

For many DLers, the years 1987 to 2019 seem to have never happened. Hence the fascination with movies, TV shows, celebrities, social mores and the like from 40 years ago. And the responses to travel threads that begin "when I was there in 1984...." as if things clearly had not changed in 35 years.

by Anonymousreply 248November 2, 2019 4:35 PM

I concur. Hence, that is why so many here are fixated on citing and referencing stuff from 1971, 1979, 1985, 1996, 2002 when discussing things that should only be about what is happening in 2019. Too many here are stuck in yesteryear and have outdated notions.

by Anonymousreply 249November 2, 2019 4:40 PM

Our superiors have arrived in the last 3 posts. All hail!

by Anonymousreply 250November 2, 2019 5:17 PM

[R248] my ancestors came from Wales to Maryland, too. They were called the Iddings which was anglicized to Eden. Some of them were Phillips, too. They made glass.

by Anonymousreply 251November 2, 2019 5:17 PM

R248 is naive. 99% of our lives are determined by history. You don't even realize how much everything you think depends on conditions that no longer pertain. You cannot wish away homophobia, Republicans, Christians, or military dictatorship by hooking up with a 20 year old who knows nothing of any of it. Indeed, if Trump had not been part of what was wrong with America in the 70s and 80s he wouldn't be anybody now.

by Anonymousreply 252November 2, 2019 5:34 PM

Uuuuum okay

by Anonymousreply 253November 2, 2019 5:37 PM

[quote]If I go to a business lunch in NY, SF or LA, it's like a competition among the straight 40 and 50 year old men to see who can order the healthiest ("cleanest") lunch, which frequently means some sort of salad involving kale.

Kale was garbage peasant food for centuries, but now it's the key to everlasting life amongst the moneyed classes. It's fascinating how things can change.

by Anonymousreply 254November 2, 2019 5:38 PM

White people have discovered collard greens

by Anonymousreply 255November 2, 2019 5:43 PM

LOL, very true R254

Isn't lobster sort of the same thing (not healthy but was something working class New Englanders ate and then somehow became super fancy.)

by Anonymousreply 256November 2, 2019 5:58 PM

I know I draw a straight line between the plot intricacies of Golden Girls and Madonna songs from the mid-80s and the rise of Trump.

How could anyone NOT see that?

by Anonymousreply 257November 2, 2019 5:59 PM

Taking care of their feet. I was at the wedding of my nephew recently and saw his dad, my older brother's, feet. I really felt sorry for my sister in law (who I can't stand) after seeing how horrible my brother's feet looked. It looked like a dog had been chewing on them.

I should have said something to him but I didn't.

by Anonymousreply 258November 2, 2019 6:04 PM

Lobsters were called "the cockroaches of the ocean" and it was something poor people ate. I don't know how it became a delicacy (or close to it, anyway) but yes, it was originally lower-class food.

by Anonymousreply 259November 2, 2019 6:10 PM

these stereotypes are still very much alive, not sure why some posters are trying to pretend that they're ancient history

by Anonymousreply 260November 2, 2019 6:11 PM

R205, R221, there is a cultural difference in the US. Southern men cross their legs together, closed; others cross them at right angles. This is also a euro vs american thing. It's girly or not depending on where you live. I wouldn't doubt that social pressure has caused southern us men to stop crossing their legs together though.

by Anonymousreply 261November 2, 2019 6:30 PM

I don’t do anything to my feet beyond cutting toenails. Not my fingernails. Naturally Not my priority in life.

by Anonymousreply 262November 2, 2019 6:56 PM

*Likewise my fingernails

by Anonymousreply 263November 2, 2019 6:56 PM

Intellectual and artsy men or essentially the only American men that feel comfortable to cross their legs girly style. Elderly Men Also do it

by Anonymousreply 264November 2, 2019 6:58 PM

r132

[quote]One of the presenters got ripped a few years ago for saying he never eats ice cream cones because 'it's kinda gay,'

Going against Big Ice Cream. Idiot.

r135

[quote]Being present at your children's birth used to be solely a woman's domain.

Well...so many faint or otherwise have be escorted out of the delivery room. Its like...

"You don't have to come in, honey... the nurse already told not to touch those...no! you can't check how dilated I am with your fingers, stay up here with me - hold my hand, don't go look...DON'T LOOK...that's just crowning, it's not Alien...honey, honey, honey...yes, of course, you can remove him.

by Anonymousreply 265November 2, 2019 8:10 PM

In a lot of fishing communities in Canada, the poor kids ate lobster sandwiches for lunch and the rich kids ate peanut butter sandwiches.

by Anonymousreply 266November 2, 2019 9:33 PM

Not any more, but using a French press to make coffee used to register on my gaydar.

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by Anonymousreply 267November 2, 2019 10:03 PM

Letting another guy put his cock in your mouth or ass.

by Anonymousreply 268November 2, 2019 10:24 PM

Letting a guy suck your cock - not gay.

by Anonymousreply 269November 2, 2019 10:25 PM

Flashing Gangish signs in photos

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by Anonymousreply 270November 2, 2019 10:31 PM

R268 manly or girly?

by Anonymousreply 271November 2, 2019 10:41 PM

Years ago I was visiting my brother and his neighbour was outside playing with his son.

My brother heard the guy say, "Great catch! Come give daddy a hug. I love you little guy. Daddy loves you."

My brother's reaction? "Listen to that fucking fag! 'Daddy loves you'. What a fag."

by Anonymousreply 272November 2, 2019 10:50 PM

Getting anaesthesia for stitches, somehow.

When I was a med student I had to take care of a big burly unpleasant guy who came in for a cut on his hand and wanted me to "just stitch him up, already!" and that no anaesthesia was needed because he wasn't a little girl.

Of course it started stinging when I was cleaning the wound and he wouldn't stand still. Of course I had to do a local anaesthesia to work in peace. And of course when I got the needle out the guy went all white in the face and said in a small voice "You.. you're going to give me an injection?"

Of course I enjoyed it.

by Anonymousreply 273November 2, 2019 11:49 PM

With all due respect R272, your brother, whose reflections on Things That Are Gay you've previously listed at R112 and R145 has some serious issues concerning your sexuality and his own.

While I am sure they are hurtful to hear, I would not take them to be anything other than the gay-panic-induced thoughts of your brother. Other straight guys don't think that way.

by Anonymousreply 274November 3, 2019 12:24 AM

R272 It is idiots like your brother that raise boys that become like the other idiots in this thread. The neighbor, however, is the kind of man that raises well adjusted men who are not insecure with their masculinity.

by Anonymousreply 275November 3, 2019 12:59 AM

True bro

by Anonymousreply 276November 3, 2019 1:03 AM

Which of the 8 Ivies are girly? When I was a kid, my father said Yale. Must be Brown, now.

by Anonymousreply 277November 3, 2019 1:07 AM

....

by Anonymousreply 278November 3, 2019 1:52 AM

R272, you should have replied "No, that's just a father who actually loves his children."

And a moment later pointed out to your brother that a man sobbing uncontrollably is gay.

by Anonymousreply 279November 3, 2019 2:06 AM

[quote]I would think it's more comfortable to not cross your legs at all than to do it the "masculine" way.

Nope, in fact, I am sitting like that right now before I even read your post. I am telling you for me, the ankle on the knee is more comfortable. Sort of like sitting on the ground cross leg is more comfortable than than straight out.

by Anonymousreply 280November 3, 2019 6:17 AM

Double gay, legs crossed like a woman and no socks fashion queen.

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by Anonymousreply 281November 3, 2019 6:46 AM

Anal is gay. Pegging is for manly men.

Just DO NOT tell your girlfriends, okay??

by Anonymousreply 282November 3, 2019 7:05 AM

Exactly. Lauer sexually harassed women as a cover. He's a big flaming closet queen.

by Anonymousreply 283November 3, 2019 7:06 AM

A man who was carrying a pink dog carrier has been brutally attacked in Belgrade, Serbia, after his attackers wrongly assumed he was gay.

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by Anonymousreply 284November 3, 2019 12:58 PM

R274 regarding the first list, I think my brother's obsession with not being publicly embarrassed was the case of that. He embarrassed himself on a daily basis but seemed to think it was others who made him look foolish.

In regards to the neighbour, there was a lot of envy in the guy having kids. My SIL convinced my brother to have a vasectomy so they never had kids and my brother resented that for years.

Basically any guy who had what he wanted but couldn't have was a fag, or queer, or a homo.

by Anonymousreply 285November 3, 2019 1:07 PM

Going to the cubicle to piss is gay.

by Anonymousreply 286November 3, 2019 1:22 PM

Going into the cubicle to piss is eldergay with prostate issues.

by Anonymousreply 287November 4, 2019 9:53 AM

A few days ago on the thread about a plastic bag ban at Wegman's, one of our own DLers opined that carrying one's own reusable shopping bags to a store was "unmanly."

by Anonymousreply 288November 4, 2019 11:12 AM
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by Anonymousreply 289November 4, 2019 10:10 PM

R289 That isn't necessarily about him seeing glasses as not manly or girly. I've known many men and women who just doesn't want people to see them wearing glasses.

by Anonymousreply 290November 5, 2019 12:31 AM

R290 that comes down to sexual attractiveness and so it’s about gender roles

by Anonymousreply 291November 5, 2019 12:42 AM

But, since both men AND woman feel it makes them unattractive, I think it is outside the boundaries of this discussion. The men aren't saying they don't want to wear them because it will make them appear girly, just that they think it will make them appear ugly.

by Anonymousreply 292November 5, 2019 12:56 AM

I concur

by Anonymousreply 293November 5, 2019 1:21 AM

R292 less manly. Perfect vision is virile

by Anonymousreply 294November 5, 2019 1:25 AM

R294, less manly but in a woman also less alluringly feminine. Wearing glasses is one of those things people who are vain about their looks try not to do, male or female.

by Anonymousreply 295November 5, 2019 5:24 AM

Wearing glasses mean you have a weakness, poor sight. Therefore less manly. FYI when the draft was in full force in the US, one of the ways you could be rejected was from really poor eyesight. Today you can join no problem for most but they still have limits regarding sight. So it's not an imagined thing when you cant join an army.

by Anonymousreply 296November 6, 2019 12:40 PM

This thread inspired me as I was shopping with a friend at Walmart yesterday. We saw a guy walk by with his arms loaded with stuff, no cart, no basket. My friend said to him, "You need to get a basket!" And he grunted, "No, I got it." When he walked away my friend said, "That's silly." I helped her understand. "Not using a hand basket is manly. But if he used a basket today, he'd be sucking cock by sundown."

by Anonymousreply 297November 6, 2019 4:40 PM

R287: As I sit at home recovering from surgery that removed my prostate to spare my life, I have to agree with you.

by Anonymousreply 298November 6, 2019 5:05 PM

People have WAY too many hangups.

by Anonymousreply 299November 6, 2019 11:34 PM

Never watch anything on Lifetime or Bravo, or your man card could be revoked

by Anonymousreply 300November 7, 2019 12:14 PM

Sucking a bro's cock is just being a good friend, but telling him you care about him is totally gay.

by Anonymousreply 301November 7, 2019 12:17 PM

I don't use a basket at Target because when I do I end up buying a bunch of extra shit I didn't plan on getting.

by Anonymousreply 302November 7, 2019 1:21 PM

How very Martha Graham of them, R86.

by Anonymousreply 303November 7, 2019 1:34 PM

I am obsessed with Chiropractic back cracking videos. There is a guy named Beau Hightower. Big dude with millennial beard. He was working on one of these powerlifter guys and was doing is arm/shoulder and he told the guy to hold on to his arm. Casually the guy said "should I hold your hand?" and he barked NO. Someone off camera asked if that was the wrong way to do it and he said "no I just don't want a guy holding my hand..: and hilarity ensued.

at that point I stopped watching - the guy is homophobic.

by Anonymousreply 304November 7, 2019 1:40 PM

This thread must have certain DL folk talking to themselves because I have several Mean Girls on ignore and there are lots of gaps in the comment numbers.

by Anonymousreply 305November 7, 2019 1:42 PM

Bean bag chairs

by Anonymousreply 306November 7, 2019 10:39 PM

R306 umm ever been in a frat boy gamer dorm?

by Anonymousreply 307November 7, 2019 10:41 PM

Apparently not

by Anonymousreply 308November 7, 2019 10:44 PM

Swallowing

by Anonymousreply 309November 7, 2019 10:55 PM

I used to watch Unsolved Mysteries on Lifetime years ago, R300.

by Anonymousreply 310November 7, 2019 10:57 PM

Murse, man purse.

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by Anonymousreply 311November 7, 2019 11:30 PM

My friends say walking Fast is girly. They say men should Walk with confidence and swag but never in a rush because it communicates fear or anxiety, which no male should exude. Men take their time and own their space.

by Anonymousreply 312November 8, 2019 12:41 AM

R312 true but studies show that men walk faster than women in general

Women talk faster, quicker, than men though

by Anonymousreply 313November 8, 2019 7:59 AM

Guys with swagger cant walk supper fast. And doing that means they are trying extra hard to portray manliness by the way they walk.

by Anonymousreply 314November 8, 2019 8:10 AM

Part of having swag is being too cool to be rushed.

by Anonymousreply 315November 8, 2019 11:54 AM

R315 a couple years back I watched a douchebro taking his time crossing a street while cars blasted their horns at him. All of a sudden a bike courier comes out of nowhere, knocked him on his ass and continued onward. Sometimes walking fast is necessary.

by Anonymousreply 316November 8, 2019 12:40 PM

Sometimes

by Anonymousreply 317November 8, 2019 1:20 PM

You can walk fast, almost robotic Terminator/Michael Myers like, and be incredibly masculine and even scary to people

Walk with your fists at your side, no flailing of the arms, and your shoulders back and pecs puffed out and guide your movements with your torso

It's very masculine and intimidating and it makes you look like your walking fast with a purpose and you're ready to fuck somebody up

by Anonymousreply 318November 8, 2019 1:23 PM

Swag? Isn't that prizes that radio stations give away to listeners?

by Anonymousreply 319November 8, 2019 1:29 PM

And make sure your arms are bent at an angle, NO flailing of the arms of arms straight while walking, with your fists clench and your chest out

It's very intimidating and masculine

People mention my masculine walk to me all the time

by Anonymousreply 320November 8, 2019 1:30 PM

R314: Supper always slows me down.

by Anonymousreply 321November 8, 2019 2:17 PM

Mincing down the street can appear girly to many.

by Anonymousreply 322November 8, 2019 5:09 PM

[quote]People mention my masculine walk to me all the time

R320 on the promenade.

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by Anonymousreply 323November 8, 2019 8:48 PM

Don't forget: Clear liquors are not masculine, or at least are less masculine than brown liquors (which in practice means whiskey). That's a big one.

by Anonymousreply 324November 9, 2019 12:17 AM

Gin isn't manly!?

by Anonymousreply 325November 9, 2019 12:19 AM

I disagree as vodka is seen as masc.

by Anonymousreply 326November 9, 2019 3:08 AM

R324 is correct. Just because some of you queens, love vodka doesn't mean it's masculine. Dark Whisky, Beer, etc are a mans drink. Clear, icy, fruity, sweet, colorful drinks are for woman. Woman who drink whisky do it because the are trying to look like one of the boys smoking a cigar.

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by Anonymousreply 327November 9, 2019 4:30 AM

R327 I think moonshine would be an exception, it is clear but seen as masculine.

by Anonymousreply 328November 9, 2019 10:30 PM

R329, sure, because it's rough and harsh in taste. It's not the color of vodka that makes it less "manly",* it's the near tasteless quality and the ease with which its alcohol flavor is disguised by mixers. Gin is similar, although it has a stronger flavor, of course.

It's all about how you drink it. A Russian guy knocking back icy straight vodka shots, one after the other, is many things, but he's not girly.

*Remember the title of the thread - this is not reality, it's perception by a certain insecure group of men. After all, James Bond famously drank vodka martinis (although, to be fair, this concept was introduced in 1954, when vodka was still somewhat exotic). Who could be more manly than James?

by Anonymousreply 329November 9, 2019 11:50 PM

What about Southern Comfort or rum? They are dark, but sweet? What would people think of my drinking preferences? I prefer cider to beer, I only drink whiskey in mixed drinks, but I love Southern Comfort, rum, and moonshine straight.

by Anonymousreply 330November 10, 2019 12:00 AM

James Bond was a pussy, ruining a martini with vodka.

by Anonymousreply 331November 10, 2019 1:19 AM

Slovenly housekeeping: straight.

Neatness: gay.

by Anonymousreply 332November 10, 2019 5:15 AM
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by Anonymousreply 333November 10, 2019 6:05 AM

r332 that one is pretty outdated. Lots of straight guys today are neat and care about their appearance.

Also, lots of straight guys today have no clue about how to fix things or use tools.

by Anonymousreply 334November 10, 2019 3:00 PM

Real men use a gas powered leaf blower and drive the neighbourhood crazy with the racket because raking leaves is for old women.

The noisier the power tools are, the more manly. We have a neighbor like that. Diesel giant truck, compressor roaring, nail gun banging.

by Anonymousreply 335November 10, 2019 11:08 PM

Don’t be so delicate r335

by Anonymousreply 336November 10, 2019 11:21 PM

He's a strapping young thing... You can have him then r336 if you don't mind living in an industrial zone. It used to be peaceful here.

by Anonymousreply 337November 11, 2019 12:02 AM

Straight men are fucking retarded.

by Anonymousreply 338December 3, 2019 1:46 AM

Tight pants are gay, baggy pants are straight.

by Anonymousreply 339December 3, 2019 9:39 AM

Wearing masks.

by Anonymousreply 340July 5, 2020 1:10 AM

[quote]James Bond famously drank vodka martinis

Is this true? He's famous for saying "Stirring bruises the gin."

by Anonymousreply 341July 5, 2020 1:14 AM

Things that only gay men used to do have been categorized as "manly" and "not manly" by straight guys who claim the manly things as their own and label the not manly things as gay.

by Anonymousreply 342July 5, 2020 2:15 AM

[quote] R17: My bro in law is always a good example of anything Deplorable...I think having any concept of consequences, risk vs. reward, is not considered manly for some toxic reason.

People seemed to like R17, when my bro-in-law set his backyard on fire, so here’s another bro-in-law story:

My family had small boats when I was growing up. We know a bit about them. Chiefly, boating can be incredibly dangerous. If you’ve ever been trapped between a boat and the dock when a boat rises on an incoming wave, you know what I mean. Or if you’re a child who is sunburnt, exhausted, dehydrated, and stuck on a boat on a day when a storm rolls in, the temperature drops 10°f, and you’re stuck an hour from docking, you know what I mean.

30 years after our boats were all sold, I suggested to my family that we try to find a boat rental for our Summer visits. We weren’t able to find a rental, but then I hear the next year that my sister and her deplorable husband have rented a motor boat for the season. I frankly find that a bit annoying, commandeering my idea like that, but, ok, whatev The problem is that I know my bro-in-law. He has toxic masculinity, and toxic stupidity. He will die first, and he will put everybody in my family at risk, rather than ask for help with something with which he obviously needs help.

I declined an offer to come down and visit with them on a boating outage. In mean, my sister doesn’t realize as I am very discreet about it, but I won’t even get into a car if this guy is driving, I’m sure not getting on a boat he captains. I literally said a prayer for my family as I feared them all being wiped-out in a single event. That family outing came and went by uneventfully; but later, my sister casually mentions this: they had later decided to motor from Old Saybrook, CT to Orient Point, Long. Island. To do that, you have to cross “The Race”:

[italic] This huge rip is legendary for its unforgiving bottom, ferocious currents and large waves...For many reasons, anchoring in the Race is foolish and may have catastrophic results...Seasoned skippers leave their motor idling so they can quickly power up-tide before drifting into the rip-line breakers. Even on a windless day, an 18-footer is the minimum size needed to challenge the rip and handle its cresting waves as well as the wakes of large vessels. [/italic]

My sister should know better. Anyway, they take the hour long trip and get to Long Island, and the weather changes. Now, they have to return the boat rental that afternoon. They don’t want the expense of an extended rental nor the cost of docking overnight on Long Island plus the hotel stay, so they decide to take a chance and motor home. TAKE A CHANCE? My sister tells me that they almost were swamped and were lucky to make it home. They put their own lives at risk plus the lives of those on the Coast a Guard rescue ship as well, from something I could see was inevitable from my home in Boston. I didn’t need to see a weather report to know this was going to happen. And I’ll bet he never bothered to put on a life vest through the whole thing.

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by Anonymousreply 343July 5, 2020 8:27 PM

Smoking Parliaments.

by Anonymousreply 344July 5, 2020 9:48 PM

R344 manly or girly? You have to state a category.

by Anonymousreply 345July 5, 2020 10:03 PM

Girly

by Anonymousreply 346July 5, 2020 10:06 PM

Any 100 ml cigarettes are girly.

by Anonymousreply 347July 6, 2020 12:47 AM

[bold] Yet Another One Where The Sort Of Gay Men Who Don't Actually Know Any Straight Men Make Sweeping Hilariously Inaccurate Generalizations About Them, Said Generalizations Frequently Tinged With Sexual Undertones

by Anonymousreply 348July 6, 2020 12:51 AM

Lots of these are true, if you actually know certain types of straight men. r348/YMF.

by Anonymousreply 349July 6, 2020 12:52 AM

My little nephew went through an artistic phase when he was in preschool. My Dad explained to my sister, “Some boys like sports. Some boys like art.” My Dad played briefly for the Brooklyn Dodgers and I am incredibly grateful for his maturity and open mindedness, despite his generation. His own Uncle was a gay guy, and despite that, my Dad was best man at his wedding to a woman in 1930. I would have liked to quiz my Dad about how that worked, if I had known about my uncle while my Dad was still alive.

My nephew grew up to “like sports”, lol.

by Anonymousreply 350July 6, 2020 1:09 AM

My bro-in-law has acne scars that suggest a rough adolescence. His own son has his skin-type in his adolescence, and I recall my sister asking her husband as to whether or not they should do anything about their son’s acne. My BIL said, “he’s fine”, and inside, I was horrified. I privately offered my sister to pay the costs to send their kid to a doctor. Which she did. The kid’s got acne scars today, but not as bad as they would have been. At least he can grow a beard to hide them.

by Anonymousreply 351July 6, 2020 1:16 AM

Social media. Most of the dumb deplorable straights I know don't even have social media. To them, things like Instagram and Facebook are something their wives use to share pictures of their crotchfruit spawn with their girlfriends. Those who do have social media mostly just share and retweet things from Barstool or FOX News.

by Anonymousreply 352July 6, 2020 3:40 AM

R352 yeah, when a straight man stops acting like Stifler from American Pie & starts posting non-ironically is when you know he’s really pussy-whipped.

by Anonymousreply 353July 6, 2020 3:57 AM
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