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[–] Miaou@jlai.lu 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sounds like my experience in the USA end of the 2010s but OK. Got called gay for not doing a fist bump, amongst other crazy homophobic behaviour. Glad that happened though, I didn't waste time thinking about staying there

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[–] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Was a mid 2000s hipster wearing skinny jeans and bright colors. Non hipster girls thought I was gay. Honestly frat bros were generally more pleasant and if they thought I was gay never said anything and just handed me a beer.

[–] starchylemming@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

and, how is your husband ?

/jk

somehow not being gay while not being gay was important while the real gays got accepted more. maybe it was a side effect of higher acceptance. kids of that time had to visibly distance themselves from stereotypical gay behaviour to appear more conformist?

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I've always perceived metrosexual as a modern urban male look, sort of a Euro-inspired upgrade from yuppie.

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[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 32 points 3 days ago

Before we had been introduced, my wife’s BFF told her I might be gay because I like opera.

[–] ninjabard@lemmy.world 27 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I have a degree in musical theatre and am a member of a music oriented fraternity. The fraternity was called "the gay" fraternity by the typical frat bro organizations within the last decade. Its not just relegated to the early part of the 2000s.

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 days ago

I bet you guys had far better parties

[–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The gay theatre kid has been a stereotype forever, but they literally had to invent a word to describe guys who showered and wore something that wasn't a T-shirt because that was enough for even women to think you were gay. The homophobia was so bad back then that you could possibly lose your job if people thought you were gay because you used hair gel and dressed well.

The 90s and 2000s were something else.

[–] ninjabard@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

I remember how angrily people would defend themselves not being gay.

[–] droporain@lemmynsfw.com 25 points 3 days ago (6 children)

People who think 2000s was homophobic would not have survived high school in the 80s lol. No like literally they would kill you.

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[–] 4grams@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Just watched SLC Punk last night, as a 90’s kid, was a real nostalgia gut punch. One of the characters, Eddie, took me back to my 90’s teenage growing up when they threw metrosexual at me.. I always took it as a compliment, never helped me with the ladies though.

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