People really think the south/rural areas have people being giant racist homophobes to strangers… No they save that for people they know or think will agree with them
i’m pretty sure i give off “hey, whatever your views whoever you are i’ll accept and validate you” vibes in person then, because jesus the titties on a walrus on a jetski christ the things some people have confided in me.
Their litmus test for “people they think will agree with them” is just: be a white man.
I am a burly white dude. Tall, big beard, I look like I walked out of the mountains… Unprompted, some white people will casually say some unhinged rascist shit to me. And have, many times.
One time there was a shooting nearby, a white maintenence worker told me about it, and then without missing a beat goes “it was two black guys shooting at eachother, so much for brotherly love, right?”
Another time, in a gas station up in the sticks, Im buying a can of monster. Some white stranger, unprompted, taps me on the shoulder starts telling me about how the logo is a Jewish letters for the sign of the devil…
So, no, you dont have to be someone these people know… you just have to a white man. They assume any white man (especially masculine presenting) is one of them.
I tend to look like a hippie that was forced to dress up for church and people definitely just assume I’ll agree with their racist bullshit because I’m white.
Dude is wearing a nice coat and a scarf. Don’t you know if you are not wearing a trucker hat and a coat from the army surplus store that you are a fag.
I was in WV visiting family for Thanksgiving. I wasn’t wearing incredibly nice clothing, but it wasn’t just a hoodie or whatever other junk is cheap. I really felt out of place (which I was). I was getting a hotdog at a place that only opens for two days every year now, that was a staple a famous, and the next nicest clothes was probably some old guy wearing a jacket either from a surplus store or from Vietnam or something.
The good news is no one cared. I wasn’t called anything and no one seemed to be bothered. I am a straight white man though.
As someone who wears a surplus Czech army field jacket, I take umbridge with thine implications. Surplus is just thrift with a bias towards khaki, camo, and questionable food products. Also you can get some pretty solid storage boxes via surplus vendors, I keep my bungies and jumpers in a waterproof 30mm ammo case in the bed of my truck
It would have to be someone who knows him, or something about his style, accessories, or behavior, that emboldened a stranger to assume he was gay. The comic gives no hint at any of this being evident.
Or maybe that guy calls everyone a faggot because he’s always confrontational.
A white guy with a beard would not be called that in a small town.
They’re more likely to be mistaken as a fellow racist.
I got called that when I flipped off a guy in a lifted truck who almost rammed into my car on purpose in a parking lot
I’m a white guy with a beard
People really think the south/rural areas have people being giant racist homophobes to strangers… No they save that for people they know or think will agree with them
Haha, I would disagree with that. I’ve had “fuck you, fag” yelled at me many times in rural areas.
Yep, a few feet of the Purdue campus and suddenly started getting called a removed by random drivers
i’m pretty sure i give off “hey, whatever your views whoever you are i’ll accept and validate you” vibes in person then, because jesus the titties on a walrus on a jetski christ the things some people have confided in me.
Here’s where you’re wrong
Their litmus test for “people they think will agree with them” is just: be a white man.
I am a burly white dude. Tall, big beard, I look like I walked out of the mountains… Unprompted, some white people will casually say some unhinged rascist shit to me. And have, many times.
One time there was a shooting nearby, a white maintenence worker told me about it, and then without missing a beat goes “it was two black guys shooting at eachother, so much for brotherly love, right?”
Another time, in a gas station up in the sticks, Im buying a can of monster. Some white stranger, unprompted, taps me on the shoulder starts telling me about how the logo is a Jewish letters for the sign of the devil…
So, no, you dont have to be someone these people know… you just have to a white man. They assume any white man (especially masculine presenting) is one of them.
I tend to look like a hippie that was forced to dress up for church and people definitely just assume I’ll agree with their racist bullshit because I’m white.
Yep this has been 100% my experience too. How do you deal with them?
depends on how much you want to fuck with em, in the case of jewphobia i like to give em a l’chaim.
“oh shit, the jews really are everywhere”
Dude is wearing a nice coat and a scarf. Don’t you know if you are not wearing a trucker hat and a coat from the army surplus store that you are a fag.
I was in WV visiting family for Thanksgiving. I wasn’t wearing incredibly nice clothing, but it wasn’t just a hoodie or whatever other junk is cheap. I really felt out of place (which I was). I was getting a hotdog at a place that only opens for two days every year now, that was a staple a famous, and the next nicest clothes was probably some old guy wearing a jacket either from a surplus store or from Vietnam or something.
The good news is no one cared. I wasn’t called anything and no one seemed to be bothered. I am a straight white man though.
As someone who wears a surplus Czech army field jacket, I take umbridge with thine implications. Surplus is just thrift with a bias towards khaki, camo, and questionable food products. Also you can get some pretty solid storage boxes via surplus vendors, I keep my bungies and jumpers in a waterproof 30mm ammo case in the bed of my truck
can confirm, any guy wearing a scarf in the sticks is probably (considered by others to be) a fag
True, if your Carhartt looks unweathered you’ll get glances
Depends on how trim and tidy it is.
I don’t know if you noticed, but beards made a comeback during the pan.
I’ve had a beard since 2011 so I may not have noticed
It would have to be someone who knows him, or something about his style, accessories, or behavior, that emboldened a stranger to assume he was gay. The comic gives no hint at any of this being evident.
Or maybe that guy calls everyone a faggot because he’s always confrontational.
In some places, it’s basically supplanted the word “asshole” for a lot of people.
My boss is from a small town and, for religious reasons, doesn’t swear and is deeply uncomfortable with it.
But we asked one day if there’s a swear he does use he said
“I hate to admit it, but faggot rolls off my tongue too easily.”
Its the closest he’s ever come to swearing.
I assumed he’s exhibiting casual homophobia rather than actually knowing Adam’s sexual orientation.
A guy who called everybody that would get his ass beat pretty quick in a small town.