• stebo
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      67 days ago

      isn’t the joke simply that they’re top and bottom? am I missing something deeper?

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        6 days ago

        Supposedly they’re different conversations, where each man is addressing a woman.

        Took me quite a while, even with all the comments. To me they’re just gay dudes and the one labelled “alpha” has a thing for transvestites crossdressers? (sorry if wrong word, not native speaker)

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          7 days ago

          I’m writing this reply not as a correction, but as advice from a native english speaker. The word “transvestite” has fallen out of use due to connotations (bigotry). I would use cross-dressing here, instead of transvestite. It’s a word that USA-english speakers mostly avoiding using because there are less ambiguous ones (use transwoman/transman for trans people, use cross-dressing for cis people preforming a role/fetish).

          Your choice of word was not incorrect, it has just fallen out of fashion.

          • @[email protected]
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            76 days ago

            Thank you for the perspective, amended my post. Didn’t remove it completely to allow others the same insight.

          • @[email protected]
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            36 days ago

            had to tell my English teacher the same thing last Friday. She reads a lot of historical books, so it makes sense that there’d be some confusion lol

        • @[email protected]
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          46 days ago

          Thank you! I could only see it as the alpha wanted the beta to dress like a chick so they could bone.

        • stebo
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          37 days ago

          ohhh wow I never would’ve gotten that by myself lmao

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        Is it a joke? I’m reading the original as defining terms, and the poster as laughing at the juxtaposition implying homosexual intent for a typically homophobic population. Or maybe ts just funny that someone defines an alpha male in terms of wanting a gay encounter with a cross dresser. Works either way

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          i actually thought it was a satire account and they intentionally implied that gay sex is part of being masculine