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      Even more, women think it’s gay to have genuine comraderie/man group bonding, not necessarily physical, if you have genuine trust in your buddies they’ll call you gay, and if you somehow show moral support to one another then women better not knowing this

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    Playing tennis.

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

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

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

    They got mad, but dropped it.

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

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

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

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    Once I was at a hotel bar with colleagues and we were hanging out in some lounge area. The waitress asked if we wanted drinks, so I ordered a margarita.

    Then they made fun of me for it. Like, what the hell does it matter what drink I have.

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      When I was younger I’ve definitely made fun of friends who order “girly” drinks, and have in turn been made fun of when I do it. It’s pretty standard among males in my generation (X) and older. Usually happens when everyone else in your group is ordering “manly” drinks like beer or hard liquor.

      It doesn’t even have to be something like a cosmopolitan, it could be a gin & tonic, or rum and coke. If they’re all drinking bourbon on the rocks and you order something even slightly less strong, you’re going to hear about it.

      Then there’s the times where the first guy orders a beer, then the next guy has to trump him with a run and coke, then the next guy gets a whiskey on the rocks, so then it gets one upped with a whiskey neat. Next thing you know we’re smoking crack in the alley. Just kidding about that last one, but you get the idea. We thought we were being macho, but we were idiots in our early 20s, so shrug

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

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

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

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    okay, i’m gay, but this is still relevant.

    my dad (who i haven’t come out to yet) thinks colourful underwear is gay, and those are his remarks to seeing that i’ve packed both red and blue undies while we were on vacation last year.

    like bro they’re just colours.

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

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

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

      Bizarre times

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    Wore a maroon coloured hoodie

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

    I clearly looked confused, so he says “where’s your piece?”

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

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

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    Use ranch dressing. I was informed that was for gays and city folk only. I really had no response to that nugget of wisdom.

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    Wearing a chain.

    Chain necklace? Gay

    Chain bracelet? Gay

    Chain wallet? Also Gay

    Chain mail. Well now you’re a dork. And also Gay

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    I got called gay for wearing a kilt in america. What’s funny is I had my girlfriend as well as a female friend with benifits with me at the time. I didn’t even bother responding.

    I’ve heard plenty of guys say that doing any kind of ass play, even with a female is gay.

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    I was just walking to work one day, when I got heckled in the street by some random guy singing at me:

    “Earthworm Jim, you’re so much fun to play. Earthworm Jim, you’re tall, you’re thin, you’re gay!”

    I’ve never been more seen.