• stebo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      isn’t the joke simply that they’re top and bottom? am I missing something deeper?

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        Supposedly they’re different conversations, where each man is addressing a woman.

        Took me quite a while, even with all the comments. To me they’re just gay dudes and the one labelled “alpha” has a thing for transvestites crossdressers? (sorry if wrong word, not native speaker)

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          I’m writing this reply not as a correction, but as advice from a native english speaker. The word “transvestite” has fallen out of use due to connotations (bigotry). I would use cross-dressing here, instead of transvestite. It’s a word that USA-english speakers mostly avoiding using because there are less ambiguous ones (use transwoman/transman for trans people, use cross-dressing for cis people preforming a role/fetish).

          Your choice of word was not incorrect, it has just fallen out of fashion.

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            Thank you for the perspective, amended my post. Didn’t remove it completely to allow others the same insight.

          • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works
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            had to tell my English teacher the same thing last Friday. She reads a lot of historical books, so it makes sense that there’d be some confusion lol

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          Thank you! I could only see it as the alpha wanted the beta to dress like a chick so they could bone.

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        Is it a joke? I’m reading the original as defining terms, and the poster as laughing at the juxtaposition implying homosexual intent for a typically homophobic population. Or maybe ts just funny that someone defines an alpha male in terms of wanting a gay encounter with a cross dresser. Works either way

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          i actually thought it was a satire account and they intentionally implied that gay sex is part of being masculine