Idaho bar celebrates "Heterosexual Awesomeness Month" with free beer for straight men
Idaho bar celebrates "Heterosexual Awesomeness Month" with free beer for straight men - LGBTQ Nation
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16157729
Idaho bar celebrates "Heterosexual Awesomeness Month" with free beer for straight men
So two gays could just come in and say they are friends and get two free beers?
But straight women couldn't get it for free
I guess it's more: "we only want men"
I guess it's more: "we only want men"
That sounds a bit gay NGL.
"NGL" in Idaho = "Not Gay LOL"?
I used to work in the trades. I was surrounded by straight-acting men. There's nothing more gay than a group of straight-acting men.
Unfortunately it's the creepy, repressed kind of gay that would make a tolerate person's skin crawl.
I feel awful for their wives and children.
I stumbled over a community at lemmynsfw.com called "rough trade" or something similar. Those tradesmen were so straight they weren't afraid to let their buddy rest his cock in their mouth.
Did you tell all the men you were working with this is how you felt about them, or was it more of an undercover hate thing?
Take that women! Men are more desirable now!
This would be hilarious if it was a gay bar. Maybe the kind with the people walking around in assless chaps.
Do they know that there are also straight women, or have they just not been shown any interest from them?
Real manly men only think about other manly men.
But only in a completely hetero way wink wink nudge nudge
They begrudgingly accept they exist, but they're working on at least removing all their rights.
Free beer (men only) sounds pretty gay
they have no interest in women.
wink.
That's like free beer for your dog or kitchen stove. Here in Idaho, we try not to anthropomorphize our property.
Damn
Women are weak and girly. You think a strong masculine hot dude likes girly things? Yeah right, that's so gay bro.
If those women aren’t showing these chads the attention they deserve for being absolute kings among the peasants, then the women must be gay. It’s the only logical answer. /s
Bars have consistently had 'women nights' at bars where they get all night discounts and free admission. I don't see how this is any different
It's clearly a bicep.
Events the conservative carpetbagger is hawking include “Truth seeker” nights, “Conspiracy Theory Trivia” with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle as a prize, “Open Carry Coffee” mornings with holstered handguns, and “Worship Nights” along with Bible study groups and a “Christian Singles Mingle” mixer.
A “Nefarious Vaccine Agenda” event and an upcoming “NASA Lies and Flat Earth” presentation fill out the bar’s way-out bill of fare.
Hate to disappoint, sir, but this was one bar my queer ass was never going to end up in anyway.
with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle as a prize
Geeeeeee, I wonder why gun crimes are so rampant in 'Murica compared to ~anywhere else in the world. I really have no idea! I hope someone figures this out eventually!
Do these people not realize they're caricatures? That people are laughing at them?
How can someone have so little self awareness
I dont know, free beer and a flat earth exposé could be pretty entertaining.
Not gonna lie, while all that shit is insane, they're being pretty clever with their promotions. The best you'd get from most bars is a karaoke night or discount prime rib night.
Damn straight.
Damn, sounds like that place has hit a critical mass of fact-averse regressive stupidity!
SURELY some of the flavors of fascist and libertarian wackos must feel deeply embarrassed to be associated with the others. Unless of course they're no longer capable of the tiny amount of self awareness embarrassment requires..
"I hate you. So long as we push in the same direction, for now, we can get along. If needed we can deal with this at a later date."
How do you prove your sexuality to others?
You have to stare at the bar tender's gaping arsehole for 30 seconds without getting an erection. It's the only way to be sure.
Next month: pink eye awareness month!
Edit: Court ordered pink eye awareness month
The bartender sucks your dick and if you don't cum then you get a free beer.
Hell yeah I knew my performance anxiety would come in handy someday
This seems onion-y to me. I hope y'all agree.
100%
Technically a gay couple is twice as manly as a hetero couple.
Not really related to the story, I just like that fact.
Oh, look... a sausage fest. As an actual straight male - no fucking thank you.
Yea, let's not fuck up the ratio at the bar any more than it already is thanks
This seems to track for Idaho. Super large Mormon and white supremacies population there
just a bunch straight christuan men touching their guns and reading the bible
Straight men in a bar getting increasingly plastered, doing country music karaoke about how their bitch wives left them, pontificating on the superiority of Western Civilization and historical Greek culture, staring into each others eyes lovingly while slapping one another's nuts and shouting "No homo", and then heading off to the bath house together to sober up.
how do they verify if you're a straight man or not? What's to stop me from just getting a free beer?
They've got a gaydar... doesn't work very well though
sounds like their gaydar needs some percussive maintenance then.
How do you manage to ask such the right questions?
Oh you thought red lobster fucked up? Hold my beer
What did Red Lobster do?
Sell their land to a shell company (pun intended) which leased the land back to the main company at inflated rates as part of a convoluted financial scheme to embezzle money, and then blame the endless shrimp.
Endless skrimpz
Sure does sound like a bunch of participation trophy holders and snowflakes in there. You know, the exact shit they bitch about.
Aww is little Billy Rae Bob Timmy John upset that he isn't getting enough attention? Poor poor Billy Rae Bob Timmy John, just jack that pristine Identity Accessory pickup truck up another 4' and roll more coal, you'll get all the attention I promise!
I don't care about the "cause" but I'm game for free beer.
That’s cool I guess
I'm actually really happy for them that they've never been persecuted for their sexual orientation!
They have in their imaginations.
This article is lies. Its not a Boise bar, its in Eagle.
Boise is better than this. There are pride flags on the buildings on one street that has all the good bars.
It’s a trap!
Honestly, I'd love to have more healthy representation of straights.
We never went anywhere, we are the majority, and most of us here in Gen X and Gen Z have nothing against LGBTQ+ people.
Yet when we see any hetero activism, it's mostly about screwing LGBTQ+ people over, not showing the beauty and variety of hetero relationships, which is not only the traditional nuclear family.
This skews many people's perception of what hetero relationships are and/or allowed to be. There is so much in there, all sorts of dynamics, all sorts of approaches, a beautiful spectre of whatever it can be.
And this is something to be celebrated - along with the beauty and awesomeness of LGBTQ+, not as an opposition.
As a straight man, I feel like I've been represented plenty and still am in media. What exactly are you looking for that you aren't seeing? There are thousands of years of representation, still continuing to this day. Don't get me wrong, free beer is awesome but not sure why anyone feels unrepresented as a straight person.
The answer is the old chestnut,
"When you are accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression."
People like those you're responding to often see the world as a zero-sum game. If LGBTQ+ people carve out -- or in this case, demand -- representation for themselves, they believe that representation must take away "representation points" or whatever from some other group.
Frankly, Pride is the one time of year it's okay to tell these people to shut the fuck up and sit down.
Same. We hetero people are still by far the majority. I don't think it would be possible for me to feel unrepresented, unless I walked into a gay orgy.
Straight pride is just anti-LGBTQ under a different name.
What is represented is a traditional family. This is not the only way things can happen in a heterosexual relationship.
There are amazing couples with changed or reversed gender roles, plenty of happy child free couples, there are heterosexual people entering polyamorous relationships with bi-s/pan-s, there are heterosexual couples with trans people, etc. etc.
All of those are under- or misrepresented, and all of them are very much heterosexual. We need to praise this variety, to show that heterosexual relationships can be unique and different from what we normally see.
As a straight man, I would actually prefer less representation in music. More song topic variety thank you earth.
While I don't disagree with what you said in theory, what's stopping you from having these conversations? Is there a fear of losing your friends if you talk about these issues? What about your job, house, family, or even your life? These are real fears for a lot of queer people, still to this day, even in places like the UK and USA.
There's plenty of media out there that discusses non nuclear relationships for straight people. It's not always mainstream, but it exists. There's still very little for queer people that doesn't have to also tell the story of the bigotry and fear we face on the regular.
Please have your discussions, but rather than not having anything against us, have our backs when our rights and our lives are in jeopardy.
That's what I meant - I do support LGBTQ+ people, that's a no-brainer, and I welcome LGBTQ+ rights and strictly oppose conservative bills trying to take us back into the stone age.
As per conversations - yes, conversations on many kinds of heterosexual relationships are still complicated, and there is a very high chance to be misunderstood, shunned, shamed or attacked, mostly by the very same conservative crowd that makes life harder for LGBTQ+ people.
Aside from that, culture still imposes certain roles in heterosexual relationships, which leads to many young people thinking there's something wrong with them for thinking different, which causes a lot of struggle in itself.
I do not mean it as a competition on who is in more trouble. I just say there's not enough talk about what various struggles heterosexual people might face as well, without trying to take focus away from LGBTQ+ issues.
I'd love to have more healthy representation of straights.
Yeah because as a group, us straight people are REALLY underrepresented! 🙄
There might be a lot of unhealthy representation of the worst straight people, but by pure amount there's MUCH more healthy representation of straight people than everyone else because there's just so many times more of ALL kinds of representation!
We never went anywhere, we are the majority
And are extremely privileged.
most of us here in Gen X and Gen Z have nothing against LGBTQ+ people.
What's up with the millennial erasure? If anything, our ratio of allies to bigots is better than that of Gen X
Yet when we see any hetero activism, it's mostly about screwing LGBTQ+ people over
Because we don't need any hetero activism. We're already extremely privileged compared to everyone else. The ones that think hetero activism is necessary are mostly homophobes with a victim complex who think that "the gays are taking over" or some such bullshit.
not showing the beauty and variety of hetero relationships
Again, just watch the vast majority of depictions of relationships. The representation is not just there, it's overabundant to the point of exclusion and othering of LGBTQ+ people. That's the norm.
This skews many people's perception of what hetero relationships are and/or allowed to be
Bullshit. There's tons of representation of every type of hetero relationship in the world. It's not all either married people with 2.4 children and a golden retriever or LGBTQ+ people.
There is so much in there, all sorts of dynamics, all sorts of approaches, a beautiful spectre of whatever it can be.
All of which is receiving much more representation than LGBTQ+ people are, without bigoted LGBTQ+ people complaining every time.
And this is something to be celebrated - along with the beauty and awesomeness of LGBTQ+, not as an opposition.
Again, it is. Constantly. It's effectively Straight Pride month 11 months of the year everywhere. Us straight people are NOT being deprived.
I'm talking exactly about increasing the share of healthy hetero representation - as opposed to unhealthy hetero representation and not to LGBTQ+ representation.
Again, this is not a competition, and I do not mean to eat out anything from the LGBTQ+ representation. Supporting one doesn't mean not supporting the other.
It might be the time to make the world better for everyone - while still aware that some people have it worse.
I have to agree. There are proportionally fewer representations of healthy "straight" relationships. Basically identifying as straight restricts you to a narrow spectrum of toxic or abusive relationships.
Most people who actually like eachother don't put much emphasis on identifying as straight. They just like the person they are with.
I propose a new category: non-straight hetero. You are attracted to the opposite sex, but not in a straight way.
The word "straight" is pretty blurry to begin with.
Does it refer to the highly traditional hetero relationships? Is it trans-exclusive? Can the female-led relationship be straight? Is polygamy straight? I feel like the answer will depend on the person.
The word is often used and abused by the conservatives, which may alter its perception. The word "heterosexual", on its hand, is pretty strictly defined.
As such, the meaning of "non-straight heterosexual" also alters depending on context, which adds to the confusion. It's a bit of a mess.
Personally, I refer to myself as "straight" simply for the sake of brevity, even though I am a trans-inclusive heterosexual male into FLR, which many wouldn't define as "straight".
Wow. This is... wow. OK, look... I like the sentiment, the idea that healthy relationships in general should be depicted more often, but can you name the last ten shows or movies you watched that feature healthy depictions of LGBTQ+ relationships? I can, because those depictions are so rare they stand out. I can't name the last ten shows or movies I watched with straight relationships in them, because that's literally all of them. Yes, including the ones that also depicted LGBTQ+ relationships.
There needs to be more healthy representation of relationships. But specifically straight ones? Nah... We're saturated with those enough already.
They should make up 7% - 10% of all such representations, right? I think I have seen that many, but I mostly watch nerdy youtube stuff, where the presenter’s sexuality is either not mentioned or several instances of them undergoing a gender transition, which is noticeable.
That's a good take; I'm just not always competent enough to see similar flaws in depictions of LGBTQ+ relationships, but I can absolutely imagine it is true.
Let's put it this way: all relationship depictions, straight or gay, should stop pushing a certain model or expectation.
I just know and see it firsthand from the side of straights, which is why I focus on it so much, but I'm open to discussions on how it is on the LGBTQ+ camp.
Healthy representation matters a lot to shape societies we all want to live in.
They don't need to be represented, that's the point. That's why white pride events are automatically racist. Heterosexual is the default and already exists in every single culture and is extremely celebrated. What do you think every single love/romance media is about? This is so dumb lol.
You might wanna read something again before claiming that.
The text contains an answer - because heterosexual relationships, like any other ones, are very different from each other, and we should represent more than a traditional nuclear family.
Though, judging by your nickname, it's a low-effort troll commentary anyway, so I'll cut it at that.
has Nathan for You been renewed and this is the first I'm hearing about it?
I guess it's your business, if you want your bar to lose money, that's your choice.
I smell a Honeypot
This would be great if it was a gay bar doing it. A hetero day, welcome your brothers, lol.
A straight day at a straight guy bar is straight nonsense though.
Bring a gay homie to this place and treat it like a two for one promotion.
Note: You are probably going to have to be willing to throw down/draw for your gay homie. Edit: Reading more it's probably just best to not patronize this place at all.
I'd imagine a bar that would come up with a rule like that would already have a predominantly straight male demographic. That's a lot of free beer...
These ads ran on national TV back in the day and no heterosexuals were harmed.
This totally sounds like a plot for an It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia episode where Mac tries to prove his heterosexuality