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How to Do It is Slate’s sex advice column.- Tania Minna Art Market Table #12 ☠️ ️ June 2, 2019 Have a question? Send it to Stoya and Rich here. My partner and I have been together for six happy years. Here is my (female) problem: He and our gaming friends (all male) have this habit of making gay jokes constantly. They think it is hysterical to just tack some fellatio-related quip onto every. I am part of a text chain with these guys, and it is relentless-I rely on my husband to tell me when we have plans with them because I have to mute it unless I want to be inundated. These jokes aren’t hateful, per se, but they’re just constantly referencing gay, male-on-male sex, and to me, there often seems to be no discernible punchline. I see and speak to these men (and they are indeed men-we’re well out of our 20s) often and consider games with them to be a huge and rewarding component of my social life. I am the only person in the group who is not a hetero man, and I feel that if I try to say “Enough, already!,” I stand to slightly alienate myself, though they’d respect my preference. I must say that I have never seen even a hint of outright bigotry from any of them.
My partner is super kind to my close gay buddy and his partner and doesn’t act uncomfortable in the slightest when they are affectionate around us. He has embraced them with no issue whatsoever and considers them some of our best friends.
In my experience, the friends have also been completely normal around them, and two other group members also have great relationships with gay family members. In fact, one guy expressed a purely religious judgment about homosexuality once (to someone outside the group), and everyone else has discussed how gross it was.
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So what is my question? Well … is this a thing? Do hetero guys really talk like this, or are they just anomalous pervs? Is there any chance they stick to the gay stuff because they don’t want to be gross about sex with women with me around? Do I need to “stand up” to this humor, even though it seems to be free from hate? I’m not even uncomfortable with it exactly, I’m just concerned I might be dropping the ball as a citizen of the LGBTQ world. So I understand your discomfort, but I also think that this is bigger than you.Ĭould this just be a way for them to engage with something that makes them uncomfortable? #THST FRIEND THATS GAY MEME FREE# You have every right to request that language whose derogatory nature is fairly obvious not be used around you. It’s reasonable for you not to tolerate that. But I don’t think that scolding is going to change someone who’s been socialized to communicate in this way, let alone a group of such men. Given the number of responses that Pascoe and Orenstein fielded from boys and young men who say they would never call a gay person a fag and thus are fully aware of the potential bigotry they wield, I’m not convinced that exposure to actual gay men would even make much of a difference (as your anecdotal evidence also indicates). I think your hypotheses, particularly the one about them using humor to get close to something with which they are uncomfortable, are sound and I appreciate the empathy implied in your formulation of them. I also think your partner and friends are acting like kids, and unfortunately, our culture doesn’t offer a formal education to facilitate enlightenment in this particular facet of life.
Probably the best thing you can do is keep that chat muted and perhaps strike up a conversation about this the next time you’re all together-one that is more curious in tone than accusatory, for it seems to me that a lot of toxic straight-male behavior is not quite conscious. They often know not what they do, but perhaps an intelligent conversation could help set them on the course to understanding it.