• DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
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    Most of the time I’m just glad that my brain is like: ‘that person is hot’ regardless of gender and I don’t ever have to worry about how me liking another person is perceived by some weirdos

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    Yeah this is fun to dunk on and all but it’s weird and slightly annoying to act like this is a common thing with straight men. It isn’t. Majority of men seeing those women would talk about how hot they are.

    Idk why but Twitter is a cesspool with every Heterosexual stereotype out there and magnified to make it seem like it’s more common than it is.

    If this were some dumb shit about how cooking and liking the arts meant you were gay then yes it would be more realistic. I hear that shit all the time.

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      I just read through the thread and tried to mentally filter for people saying it’s a common thing. Didn’t find anything particularly overt in that way. Don’t think anyone was making claims as to how common it is either way, but I guess I could have missed it.

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    Yep, this straight man even knows who that is in the picture.

    Emily Rolfe has one of the most beautiful physiques on the planet.

    Form is function.

  • These dudes are always the weirdest closet cases… I feel like they like femboys because they have secondary traits that society has deemed “feminine” and need a way to explain how they aren’t LGBTQ+ by suggesting the opposite is somehow true. Just accept everyone is on the spectrum to some degree and carry on.

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          They are often extremely muscular statues with god like bodies. The Romans and the Greeks themselves were believed to have painted them in all kinds of colors but along the way they came to represent whiteness as the most pure and perfect form. It’s basically the literal version of whitewashing history.

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            There’s also some worship of (an idealized form of) ancient Rome and Greece here. They see their particular theme park version as a peak example of a society unmarred by the millieu of things they consider dege[…]ate.

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      Fetishizing ancient Greece and Rome as the birthplace of Western Civilization whose ideals our immoral society’s have degraded from.

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      They think they would have been a knight or philosopher or some warrior if they went back in time. Odds are they would be a peasant being ground into the dirt by nobles and still kissing their asses. It’s because they love imagining a different reality where they wouldn’t be the wimpy ass spineless cowards they are now.

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    Scary hate-crime consequences aside, it is sociologically/psychologically fascinating to see cis straight men being forced to reckon with what the fuck even their sexual preferences are, what they actually entail, what the acceptable boundaries are in their mind, etc. etc.

    Being mired in cultural and social norms that were decided for you before you even gained self awareness seems exhausting and tragic.

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    Ancient Masculinity

    Cool. Lets talk about hygiene in ancient times. Before makeup, shampoo, toothpaste and modern concepts of “femininity” existed.

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      Ancient Greeks and Romans (as this guy clearly idealizes, considering the pfp) were dandy as fuck, tbh. Gay (or bi) as fuck, too. They liked their masculinity, and they fetishized it arguably a whole lot more than femininity, with predictable (sexual) results.

      The “ancient times” this guy so loves, never existed outside his mind- or perhaps they did, but not with the “ancient Romans/Greeks/most ancient ‘civilized’ folk.” The notions of “masculinity” he subscribes to, in fact, would probably have seen this guy derided (accurately in this case) as a “barbarian…”

      This guy’s notions of masculinity are not only inspired by, if not wholly formed from the “barbarian” asscrack of Eurasia (western and northwestern Europe, though I’d call the genuine barbarism of the west a more recent thing, a product of 500 years of unparalleled barbaric behavior, perhaps much more considering the Crusades, both northern and southern) as the ancient civilizations saw it- but they’re inspired by the rot that festered in that asscrack following Christianization, the collapse of the Roman Empire at the hands of “barbarians,” and the gradual abandonment of much of the actual merits of that time (hygiene and sanitation, for instance).

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      I’ve thought about this before. I don’t think my sexual urges would have overcome the absolute ass stank produced before we discovered soap, regular bathing, and brushing teeth. I do seem to have a stronger sense of smell than most and find most people pretty gross already.

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        same… but then again if you never knew any different then maybe you’d be MORE attracted to stank than the average person? I’ve wondered that myself because i really can’t handle BO

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          Agreed, that’s what’s made me question it. Is it social conditioning? Idk, but I get unreasonably angry at people who are funky in inappropriate contexts. I still find it very unpleasant (including my own) in situations that are understandable/appropriate, but the anger isn’t there.

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            yeah im the same way

            today when my partner and i checked into a hotel the front desk guy smelled of BO stronger than I’ve ever smelled in my life and it immediately put me in a bad mood because it’s so offensive

            my partner commented as soon as we were outside that she couldn’t believe the pungent BO on that guy and she knew I was dying the whole time he was telling about our room and the breakfast etc

            i don’t get mad when someone steps off a plane and stinks because what can you do? but at work when your job is to interact with people is a different story

            again I’m far more sensitive to it than most others and i do my best to ignore it but today was a whole different level