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Probably more important to find people you vibe with and like doing the same things you do than to specifically seek out token characters from different demographics.
Also if you're excluding people from being your friend because they're gay, you don't deserve to have friends anyway.
If I could get over the crippling anxiety of meeting new people, I'd be happy to hang out with anyone regardless of who they like.
Damn, weren't gay men just teaching us empathy last week thanks to Obama?
I can't wait to see what hetero deficiency the media drops in your lap to fix for us next week.
Thank you so much, and I'm sorry?
I just made a gay friend from school and it’s honestly great. Were both gamers and he has a ton of cute girl friends that he has introduced me too lol
As a completely straight man myself I find the gays to give the best blowjobs.
Boy, do I have news for you...
You can absolutely be straight and have gay sex. A hole is a hole. I've known a few straight men who have done it and still don't seek out men or find them attractive. Conversely, I know gay men who have fucked women and don't actively seek out women to this day.
A circumstantial fuck is just that: you getting your rocks off when given the opportunity. We don't need to be questioning people's identities as if we know other people's minds like our own. That's not our place and we don't need to be prescriptivists.
No, no, he's saying the lesbians give the best BJs...
Honestly I just want friends. I don't care who you are, who you love, how you identify.
Why can't I find other people to sit around, drop acid, and argue about good music?
Hello friend.
No shit eh?
Gay couple? Do both like classic LAN games, some board games, etc and have an appreciation for sarcastic humor? Cool, it's a 2-for-1 friend special! Why not?
I don't care who you like to fuck. Can you play Warhammer?
They gays aren't really big into Warhammer, now the furries, they have all that disposable IT money to spend on some respectable units.
Fake. The furry and LGBTQ+ overlap is huge. I was originally gonna say "almost a circle", but that would imply that almost all gay people are furries. So instead, here's my 5-min Joplin 100% scientifically proven graph.
Now show furries in IT, it will have the most overlap with straight and then bi and trans will be the minority.
I don't know anything about warhammer, but I agree to your first sentence. I really don't care how people spend their free time or how they look under their clothing. And I really wished all the people would think this way.
So what I'm hearing is you can't play Warhammer. We'll start you on Kill Team.
Straight men need to wash their assholes more and stop claiming cleaning their butts is gay. Might make more friends that way.
The only man irl I've met who didn't wash his ass because he thought it was gay ... I found out was raped as a child.
The joke isn't funny anymore. The number of men I've met who were raped as children by other men, is a lot higher than I think people realize. It's traumatizing and there isn't support.
I've read one too many r/AITAH where the guy is like this and the woman is like, "he streaks the couch and bed sheets. Should I leave him?"
they should try pissing sitting more too
I've done a lot of pissing pre and post op.
Pissing while seated on a toilet sucks if you have a penis.
Penis-havers really should have more access to urinals in residential settings imo, that body configuration is just not built to pee sitting down.
Honestly... overrated unless you are at home and looking to kill time or take a moment to yourself.
I'll take a sauna/bath/sitnpiss on the occasion but the quickie is just easier in most cases and definitely outside the home where you're dealing with public restrooms.
Keeping something in your ass, like shit, sounds pretty gay to me
Bro, the demographics don't matter. Just make friends with the people that you mutually enjoy the company of. If they're not a horrible person, then you should be friends. Expanding the demographics you're willing to accept as friends can only really expand how many people you have as friends. Unless some of your friends have some sort of hatred for some of your other friends.
A partner of mine had many fay male friends. She relayed a story once about one of her gay male friends hanging out with a straight person he was trying to be friends with. She showed me the texts he'd sent her on their hangout and they contained things loke: "what the fuck do straight people like?" and "what the hell are we supposed to talk about?" and "we are just kind of sitting here silently and I feel awkward".
I don't have a point with this anecdote but I always laugh when I think about it.
Good questions. Uhhhhh, some common interests include video games (gay people too), there's sports sometimes. Cars I guess. That's the vague shit at least. I feel like most straight guys have to like at least one of those things. Most have other interests that are more niche. Honestly, fair enough question lol, hope he found a couple out!
As a straight, married man, sounds good to me.
Living in San Francisco, if I met someone with no lgbtq+ friends I would probably steer clear of them.
Isn’t a decent chunk of San Francisco part of one massive polycule by now, anyway?
The success of the Greater Portland Polycule cannot be understated
Aw jeez I wasn't invited
Instructions unclear, initiated affair with gay coworker.
Seems like an absolute win
It's been a solid team building experience.
Wife isn't super thrilled, though.
As a straight man, I love Fabolous friends.
Are those damn fabulous bastards gonna help rebuild this broken car-centric society?
Straight men will do anything to avoid having non-surface-level connections with other straight men.
Call me a snowflake, but fuck it, it's not helpful to generalize men this way. From Gen X through Z and kids today men and women are getting the education to speak to each other more open and with clinical "awareness". It takes generational education and you have a political climate activity screeching at them to be hyper masculine or whatever you want to call it.
Statements like this are not helpful and breed resentment.
/End Soapbox
In my neck of the woods, that is changing rapidly. Even the strongest "manly men" are beginning to break down their own barriers and starting to express themselves, and it's transcending age groups. The older they are the more resistant they are, but it's spreading quite quickly.
That's good to hear.
I had quite a few gay friends growing up. Was neither here nor there for me. They were my friends.