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Gay men, what would you like to explain about the "gay best friend" stereotype to staight people? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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To be clear, im queer and im in a relationship with a gay cis man.

Some days ago we were watching a sketch on YouTube about the gay best friend stereotype, where the joke was basically "I can be misogynistic and can walk into female dressing rooms because im gay". I was trying to gather my thoughts to write a piece about it, personally I have no problem being the "gay friend" to my female friends, but there are a lot of stupid and harmful misconceptions about it. I would like to hear some of your opinions about it.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Afab are in clear and present danger around amab.

This is not accurate.

Leaving aside the fact you were talking about gender in the first half of your post, and then switched over to assigned sex as if they were the same thing, a more accurate statement would have been "AFAB folk, and gender diverse AMAB folk are most at risk from cishet men"

Your statement here positions some of the main targets of aggression as being the aggressors