• Avicenna@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    what now gay men have to solve straight mens’ problems too as if they don’t have enough of their own caused by the very same group

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    I don’t know what I expected.

    People are lonely, everyone could do with a few good friends no matter their sexual orientation. Gay men are people and therefore have people problems, i don’t think they have it better or worse in this regard. I personally haven’t meet a gay man who has been that much different from other men, so i find this article very odd, or at least built on stereotypes (maybe just me?)

    I have a long rant about the loneliness epidemic in me but ill spare everyone. main thing is this isn’t as new thing, but that does lite to help and doesn’t add value to the conversation.

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    What the living fuck. My gay friends have always just been normal dudes that like to suck cock. Nothing special about them. They aren’t an enlightened emotionally available class of supermen. They like video games, weed, and sci-fi, that’s why we got along. Common interests, not some unacknowledged desire to broaden our horizons.

    This article is 90s gay.

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    Maybe, but honestly I think they should really just focus on befriending good people that they get along with. Any given straight man may find that in a gay man, but plenty of others will find close friendships in people regardless of gender or orientation.

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      Anyone befriending anyone is always highly subjective.

      It comes down to the personality of both sides. Most of the gay guys in my circle of friends throughout the years have been too high strung I think it’s just luck of the draw. The gay women in my orbits are more chill. I’m chill so we get a long better.

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    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.

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      They gays aren’t really big into Warhammer, now the furries, they have all that disposable IT money to spend on some respectable units.

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        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.

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          Now show furries in IT, it will have the most overlap with straight and then bi and trans will be the minority.

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        I am willing to deal with a cheesy lisp if you play a good game of Terraforming Mars or Gaia Project.

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      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.

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    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?

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    If they don’t have enough friends, maybe the problem is them/their personality?

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    How about a n NBC sitcom about a Republican racist asshole who moves to Seattle and makes a ton of friends only to find out they are all gay at the nude bike riding parade?

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      I remember dat phan did a bit like this:

      This neighborhood is so nice.

      Everyone is holding hands.

      O look a Walmart! wait? Gay-mart? wtf typo?
      W/e

      Hey that man stole my… curtains!?

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    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.

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      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.

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        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!

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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.

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    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?