• ChihuahuaOfDoom
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    Someone’s feewings got hurt. I would probably go grab a free beer though.

    • @[email protected]
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      Grab a beer, kiss a dude and then shout “this fucking bar made me gay!”

      Then leave a bunch of positive online reviews and make videos about how this bar makes people gay and you’ve never been happier.

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        96 months ago

        You need to wear tear-away clothes with the (pardon the phrase) gayest possible outfit on underneath. It needs to be a show! Make it loud and fabulous! 🏳️‍🌈

        • @[email protected]
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          96 months ago

          Seriously though, this sounds like a terrible idea in a bar full of homophobes and free beer.

          • @[email protected]
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            26 months ago

            None of these posers are old enough to drink.

            Homophobia sucks, but the level of cringe in these comments is off the chsrts

        • bean
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          All it takes it one sip and BAM! FABULOSO.

    • @[email protected]
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      346 months ago

      “Hi, I am a very straight man who… loves looking at red meat and eating… hooters. AT Hooters, where the straight men are. I would like my free beer now, dollface.”

    • @[email protected]
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      246 months ago

      Yep, grab the free beer so they have to absorb a loss, avoid the place like the plague the rest of the year.

      • enkers
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        I see an elephant. What does that mean, Dr. Rorschach?

        • Flying Squid
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          “The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout “Save us!”… and I’ll whisper “no.””

          Oh wait, sorry, wrong Rorschach.

          • @[email protected]
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            The comic is obviously an all time great work of literature, but the way Jackie Earl Haley delivers that line in the trailer made me think the film would be world changing

          • enkers
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            And I cannot lie

            You other brothers can’t deny

  • Flying Squid
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    Two men come in: “Hi, I’m straight, give me my free beer and one for my buddy here who’s also straight.”

    Bartender: “Here are your free beers.”

    Man: “Thank you, and now here is our beer celebration”

    The two men proceed to make out.

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      I’m tempted to go in there as a trans woman & try to convince them to give me free beer because they think I’m a dude. Given that I like women, by their logic, that just makes me a straight guy dressed like a woman, ergo… FREE BEER!!!

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        Please never imply temptation to go to Idaho again. I live in the deep south and even I’m afraid of that hellhole

      • TheRealKuni
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        36 months ago

        I would just generally avoid Idaho if I were in your no doubt chic shoes.

  • SeaJ
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    426 months ago

    And how exactly do they determine if someone is straight? Do they have them jack off to a woman before they enter?

      • @[email protected]
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        96 months ago

        I think some cities/states have determined Ladies Nights to be illegal… after lawsuits from the exact same types of dudes who think a heterosexual awareness month are a good idea.

        • @[email protected]
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          It does depend on state law. Iirc in California only private clubs can discriminate on gender.

          But discrimination based on race (or faith, or a few other things) is prohibited nationwide at the federal level.

      • HonkyTonkWoman
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        I’m right there with ya pal. Everyone thought I was gay growing up, but I liked boobs enough, I had a pair installed.

        You should try it, they’re great!

    • @[email protected]
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      As a straight, I don’t get the “men only” part.

      I’d be down with a “free beer for straights” night as long as the crowd doesn’t get all homophobic (I’m in San Francisco so even the straights are allies). But no women?

      That does sound pretty gay.

  • VodkaSolution
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    186 months ago

    I hope the campaign goes so well that literally thousands of straight men go there to have a free beer

  • @[email protected]
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    176 months ago

    "Finally, a place for us straight men. Do you have a jukebox, because somebody plans to put on Bob Srgar’s greatest hits.

  • @[email protected]
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    106 months ago

    I made the mistake of looking through some of the IG comments and I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.

    • BuckFigotstheThird
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      206 months ago

      I care because just like all lives matter, this is a dog whistle for discrimination and repression of minorities.

        • Encrypt-Keeper
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          176 months ago

          You don’t see how hosting a non-existent counter-event to the very real pride month is an inherent rejection of said pride month?

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            Not really? It’s such a tiny thing compared to pride month that’s it’s silly to focus on it tbh

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              So you think that it isn’t a dog whistle because… not enough people showed up and too many people are aware of it existing?

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                I think it’s a tiny, stupid, Itty bitty thing, and you are focusing way, way too much on it, yes.

                • Encrypt-Keeper
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                  96 months ago

                  I don’t think anyone asked you for your opinion on it. I do remember you asking how it was a dog whistle. Maybe you have a bigger horse in this race than you let on.

          • @[email protected]
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            Depends on your locale

            I live in San Francisco. If the Castro (gayest neighborhood in the world) did a “Straight Recognition Day” I think it would be fun.

            Iowa or Kansas or something? Not so much.

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              16 months ago

              It also depends on the context. Having that day not be inside pride month would do wonders as well. It would turn the event into an “Also” rather than “Instead of”

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            People celebrate hetro love as a whole. The vast majority of society approves of us pairing up. Pride is about the people who don’t get celebrated when they pair up.

            You wouldn’t go to a funeral and start complaining that there are other people in world that also had meaningful lives. You let them have their day.

            So when people make these straight pride stuff it’s basically saying having 11 out of 12 months a year wasn’t enough, we need to have the last bit.

            And yes I am straight. I just understand for the roughly 2% of the human race that isn’t they should be able to have normal lives.

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        26 months ago

        Is it though?

        All lives matter yes. But I need to see more about hetero day. I can get on board

    • @[email protected]
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      I think it was designed to make profit off of making people upset.

      But more specifically, you almost have to respect it. Target the same audience that still refuses to admit that James O’Keefe stole their money and watch the money roll in.

      Right wingers love shit like this and will invent a backlash just to donate even more money to the business owner.

    • Anise (they/she)
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      I have no problem with people feeling pride about their immutable characteristics. Scottish and proud? Excellent, go put on a kilt and throw one of those giant poles; looks fun! I have a problem when “pride” is used to organize people against a vulnerable minority. So sure, enjoy your super straight free beer with a bar full of other totally straight cis men and talk about… Idk sports or something. However, given the current political climate it seems to me like this is likely a way to gather people resentful of LGBT pride’s efforts to claim equal rights. So it isn’t a gathering of proud straight men, it is likely a gathering of bitter hateful men.

      LGBT pride exists to fight for equal rights and representation that cis-hetero people enjoy by default; it isn’t meant to gain an upper hand or displace cis-hetero people. Far-right extremists like to paint the movement’s goals as a way to erase white straight cis culture, but this is just reactionary propaganda to mobilize people against this minority group.

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    Apart from the fact that this counter celebration is cringey and time-deaf, that’s also a really long-winded and uncatchy name for it. Why didn’t they call it Straight Joy Month, or something more succinct.

  • @[email protected]
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    66 months ago

    “South California”

    Tell me you don’t know SoCal without telling me you don’t know SoCal

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      If I ever hear someone call us “South California” id probably be stuck between laughing at them and wanting to showing them Southern Californian niceness “well moreso Inland Imperial” and convert them from rear drive to front drive.