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.
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and, how is your husband ?
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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?
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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I've always perceived metrosexual as a modern urban male look, sort of a Euro-inspired upgrade from yuppie.
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Before we had been introduced, my wife’s BFF told her I might be gay because I like opera.
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.
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.
I remember how angrily people would defend themselves not being gay.
I bet you guys had far better parties
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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The 2000's were bad, but check out our friends Bill and Ted in '89 :( (Shitty epithet to follow)
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It feels so out of character that they'd call each other that, because I think that's really the only part of that movie that didn't age well. The rest of the time they're a great example of guys having a healthy friendship.
You can kind of read it as a condemnation of the current anti-gay atmosphere going into the 90's--it's so out of character that their first act after saying it is to become all smiles and joy again.
However, it more comes off as "even these loving guys who use the saying 'be excellent to each other' hate queers."
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.