cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16157729
Idaho bar celebrates “Heterosexual Awesomeness Month” with free beer for straight men
I’d imagine a bar that would come up with a rule like that would already have a predominantly straight male demographic. That’s a lot of free beer…
how do they verify if you’re a straight man or not? What’s to stop me from just getting a free beer?
They jerk you off at the entrance. If you look like you’re not enjoying it, you’re in. It’s watertight 👌
But what if they like, do it suspiciously well. Like they really know how to handle a strangers dong? Like …they may have done this many times 🤔
You have to get in early, before they get all the practice from all the previous visitors.
They’ve got a gaydar… doesn’t work very well though
sounds like their gaydar needs some percussive maintenance then.
I guess it’s your business, if you want your bar to lose money, that’s your choice.
So two gays could just come in and say they are friends and get two free beers?
But straight women couldn’t get it for free
I guess it’s more: “we only want men”
I used to work in the trades. I was surrounded by straight-acting men. There’s nothing more gay than a group of straight-acting men.
Unfortunately it’s the creepy, repressed kind of gay that would make a tolerate person’s skin crawl.
I feel awful for their wives and children.
I guess it’s more: “we only want men”
That sounds a bit gay NGL.
This totally sounds like a plot for an It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia episode where Mac tries to prove his heterosexuality
This would be great if it was a gay bar doing it. A hetero day, welcome your brothers, lol.
A straight day at a straight guy bar is straight nonsense though.
Honestly, I’d love to have more healthy representation of straights.
We never went anywhere, we are the majority, and most of us here in Gen X and Gen Z have nothing against LGBTQ+ people.
Yet when we see any hetero activism, it’s mostly about screwing LGBTQ+ people over, not showing the beauty and variety of hetero relationships, which is not only the traditional nuclear family.
This skews many people’s perception of what hetero relationships are and/or allowed to be. There is so much in there, all sorts of dynamics, all sorts of approaches, a beautiful spectre of whatever it can be.
And this is something to be celebrated - along with the beauty and awesomeness of LGBTQ+, not as an opposition.
I have to agree. There are proportionally fewer representations of healthy “straight” relationships. Basically identifying as straight restricts you to a narrow spectrum of toxic or abusive relationships.
Most people who actually like eachother don’t put much emphasis on identifying as straight. They just like the person they are with.
I propose a new category: non-straight hetero. You are attracted to the opposite sex, but not in a straight way.
I’d love to have more healthy representation of straights.
Yeah because as a group, us straight people are REALLY underrepresented! 🙄
There might be a lot of unhealthy representation of the worst straight people, but by pure amount there’s MUCH more healthy representation of straight people than everyone else because there’s just so many times more of ALL kinds of representation!
We never went anywhere, we are the majority
And are extremely privileged.
most of us here in Gen X and Gen Z have nothing against LGBTQ+ people.
What’s up with the millennial erasure? If anything, our ratio of allies to bigots is better than that of Gen X
Yet when we see any hetero activism, it’s mostly about screwing LGBTQ+ people over
Because we don’t need any hetero activism. We’re already extremely privileged compared to everyone else. The ones that think hetero activism is necessary are mostly homophobes with a victim complex who think that “the gays are taking over” or some such bullshit.
not showing the beauty and variety of hetero relationships
Again, just watch the vast majority of depictions of relationships. The representation is not just there, it’s overabundant to the point of exclusion and othering of LGBTQ+ people. That’s the norm.
This skews many people’s perception of what hetero relationships are and/or allowed to be
Bullshit. There’s tons of representation of every type of hetero relationship in the world. It’s not all either married people with 2.4 children and a golden retriever or LGBTQ+ people.
There is so much in there, all sorts of dynamics, all sorts of approaches, a beautiful spectre of whatever it can be.
All of which is receiving much more representation than LGBTQ+ people are, without bigoted LGBTQ+ people complaining every time.
And this is something to be celebrated - along with the beauty and awesomeness of LGBTQ+, not as an opposition.
Again, it is. Constantly. It’s effectively Straight Pride month 11 months of the year everywhere. Us straight people are NOT being deprived.
Wow. This is… wow. OK, look… I like the sentiment, the idea that healthy relationships in general should be depicted more often, but can you name the last ten shows or movies you watched that feature healthy depictions of LGBTQ+ relationships? I can, because those depictions are so rare they stand out. I can’t name the last ten shows or movies I watched with straight relationships in them, because that’s literally all of them. Yes, including the ones that also depicted LGBTQ+ relationships.
There needs to be more healthy representation of relationships. But specifically straight ones? Nah… We’re saturated with those enough already.
They should make up 7% - 10% of all such representations, right? I think I have seen that many, but I mostly watch nerdy youtube stuff, where the presenter’s sexuality is either not mentioned or several instances of them undergoing a gender transition, which is noticeable.
As a straight man, I feel like I’ve been represented plenty and still am in media. What exactly are you looking for that you aren’t seeing? There are thousands of years of representation, still continuing to this day. Don’t get me wrong, free beer is awesome but not sure why anyone feels unrepresented as a straight person.
What is represented is a traditional family. This is not the only way things can happen in a heterosexual relationship.
There are amazing couples with changed or reversed gender roles, plenty of happy child free couples, there are heterosexual people entering polyamorous relationships with bi-s/pan-s, there are heterosexual couples with trans people, etc. etc.
All of those are under- or misrepresented, and all of them are very much heterosexual. We need to praise this variety, to show that heterosexual relationships can be unique and different from what we normally see.
You seem to be under the impression that straight couples in media are only ever married with 2.5 kids with a working father and stay at home mom but that really doesn’t seem like it’s been the case for a while.
While polyamory is probably still underrepresented, I’m not sure about your other examples. Also polyamory often includes at least one LGBTQ+ relationship so I’m not sure it makes your point. And a trans person in a heterosexual relationship falls at least half into LGBTQ+ by definition.
Most rom coms aren’t about married couples with kids. Most sit coms show relationships where both partners work. The old trope of the dad who knows nothing about his kids is pretty dead at this point. Divorced and widowed couples show up a lot, too.
I don’t think you’re wrong that all kinds of relationships and gender expressions should be represented, but comparing it to the overall lack of LGBTQ+ rep out there… Well, one of these things is not like the other.
Also, my sister works and her husband is a stay at home dad. When people hear this they say “oh” and move on. When I mention my nephew is trans… Well the reaction is different. Very different. As stupid as it sounds, media representation plays a huge role in exposing people to things they don’t get the chance to see often in their own lives (especially if you’re from a small town). It’s good for people to see trans characters they like and relate to before they find out about my nephew. I actually use it as a gauge to decide if I should tell people at all.
So long as straight is the assumption (or default), we are gonna need these kinds of spaces.
The answer is the old chestnut,
“When you are accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.”
People like those you’re responding to often see the world as a zero-sum game. If LGBTQ+ people carve out – or in this case, demand – representation for themselves, they believe that representation must take away “representation points” or whatever from some other group.
Frankly, Pride is the one time of year it’s okay to tell these people to shut the fuck up and sit down.
Uh, no. I think I’ve been super clear in my support for LGBTQ+ community and their representation.
I meant that many kinds of heterosexual couples are barely covered by modern culture, and it’s important to show that hetero couples can be very different and still amazing.
Because what I see on hetero couples on the media is just one, very traditional, kind of relationship. That’s not how all heterosexual relationships look, and it’s important to show that so that people would be more free to be themselves and build their futures in freedom. Freedom to be the kind of heterosexuals they want to be, if they are hetero to begin with.
just a bunch straight christuan men touching their guns and reading the bible
Straight men in a bar getting increasingly plastered, doing country music karaoke about how their bitch wives left them, pontificating on the superiority of Western Civilization and historical Greek culture, staring into each others eyes lovingly while slapping one another’s nuts and shouting “No homo”, and then heading off to the bath house together to sober up.
I smell a Honeypot
For what though…what gay person is going to go there? This is like the literal opposite of a honeypot. It’s not like they are trying to trick gay people into coming with 1 free beer
To attract the type of people who actively avoid gay people, they tend to also own quite a few guns
So the claim is that it’s a honeypot to attract straight people who actively avoid gay people. This now places the presumption that it’s gay people doing this to do something nefarious to straight people which I highly doubt.
I still think honeypot is the wrong term here.
This would be hilarious if it was a gay bar. Maybe the kind with the people walking around in assless chaps.
All chaps are assless
You mean the clothing or do you just know a ton of British guys with very flat asses?
I think it’s a big bang theory reference
Or maybe just correcting a common pleonasm? Even if it’s been mentioned on the most popular “Let’s mock nerdy smart people” show doesn’t mean that it owns that information 🤷
Oh you thought red lobster fucked up? Hold my beer
What did Red Lobster do?
Sell their land to a shell company (pun intended) which leased the land back to the main company at inflated rates as part of a convoluted financial scheme to embezzle money, and then blame the endless shrimp.
That’s cool I guess
I’m actually really happy for them that they’ve never been persecuted for their sexual orientation!
They have in their imaginations.
Events the conservative carpetbagger is hawking include “Truth seeker” nights, “Conspiracy Theory Trivia” with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle as a prize, “Open Carry Coffee” mornings with holstered handguns, and “Worship Nights” along with Bible study groups and a “Christian Singles Mingle” mixer.
A “Nefarious Vaccine Agenda” event and an upcoming “NASA Lies and Flat Earth” presentation fill out the bar’s way-out bill of fare.
Hate to disappoint, sir, but this was one bar my queer ass was never going to end up in anyway.
Damn, sounds like that place has hit a critical mass of fact-averse regressive stupidity!
SURELY some of the flavors of fascist and libertarian wackos must feel deeply embarrassed to be associated with the others. Unless of course they’re no longer capable of the tiny amount of self awareness embarrassment requires…
Do these people not realize they’re caricatures? That people are laughing at them?
How can someone have so little self awareness
My god you’re so sensitive
Yes, to the smell of bullshit and the sound of factoids.
Things people usually just ignore
Remind me what the point of a post-and-comment style forum is if the only appropriate reaction to the content is stoic silence?
Sometimes people say positive or neutral or interesting things. “I hate that” is just one of an almost endless variety of ways one can participate.
Technically a gay couple is twice as manly as a hetero couple.
Not really related to the story, I just like that fact.
How do you prove your sexuality to others?
You have to make out with the bartender for 5 minutes and then they check to see whether you’ve gotten a boner or not.
But if I don’t get one, how do they know if I’m hetero or just asexual?
Asexual people don’t exist in MAGALand, silly!
It’s a male bartender
You have to stare at the bar tender’s gaping arsehole for 30 seconds without getting an erection. It’s the only way to be sure.
Next month: pink eye awareness month!
Edit: Court ordered pink eye awareness month
The bartender sucks your dick and if you don’t cum then you get a free beer.
