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r/AreTheStraightsOK•
bleeding-paryl

Posts related to Homophobia on our subreddit now have a dedicated weekday: Wednesday

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The team has come to a decision when it comes to homophobic posts, since for the most part it drives people away and it's really unrelated to the subreddit as a whole. We've been listening and paying attention to the people of the sub for awhile now, and while we realize that people do like to post homophobic things here, for the most part they aren't wanted.

Initially this subreddit was about straight couples who clearly didn't want to be together, but it has devolved into a place that posts anti-feminist, homophobia, transphobia, etc. posts, which while lovely, is not what this place is for. From here on out, we will be removing those posts as soon as we see them when we see those posts outside of the dedicated day. We will also issue temp-bans at moderator discretion, but this will most likely be limited to people who consistently break this rule.

Related to the above, to make sure we are getting the majority of this content we will be adding new moderators to the team. If you think that you would like to be a moderator, please send us a modmail.

Thank you all!

-The mod team

Edit: To make this a bit clearer, we are talking the UTC timezone to make that fair to everyone.

Posted Feb 8, 2021, 4:45 PM UTC · edited

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EbolaEmilyTrans™•

Fuckin Wednesdays, man. Always bein’ homophobic.

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bleeding-parylOPFuck TERFs•

Honestly I wanted to call it homophobic hump day

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EbolaEmilyTrans™•

And you didn’t do this why?

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bleeding-parylOPFuck TERFs•

It's actually the unofficial name, we gotta at least pretend to be higher class on that kind of stuff.

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SakaSal•

What’s low class about calling it homophobic hump day? Cus of the hump?

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pm_me_your_molars•

*humpophobic day

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DeletusThouFetusSymptom of Moral Decay•

Yes bestie. Yes.

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creepybitmapHusband Dumb•

wednesdays became homophobic the day jenna marbles left the internet

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NinjafoxyPISS IN THE FROG'S MOUTH LIKE A MEN!!•

Is there a different sub for homophobic stuff its kinda why im here

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BrilliantlyLouise•

Agreed, though I like seeing some straights completely not understanding the point of relationships and being asses about it, it would be nice to have another sub reddit for this part too, sort of like AretheCisokay, which is another great one.

(Edited for clarity!)

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SeeYaBitch•

We are all here just for the homophobia. Like, wtf are they doing. Total take over by the usual gang.

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EclecticFanatic•

there's r/HomophobiaProject

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NinjafoxyPISS IN THE FROG'S MOUTH LIKE A MEN!!•

With 697 subs :/

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EclecticFanatic•

how do you think subreddits get more subs

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Thannieman•

But how can we be homophobic on Wednesdays? That's when we wear pink!

/s just in case

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tired_human1🍓 Strawberries Are Gay 🍓•

Dammit Gretchen.

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Routine_Lead_5140the heteros are upseteros•

It's okay, because the girls wear pink. The boys don't need to give up on their masculinity. They take pride in being real men who don't wear pink. This is why they chose Wednesday.

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MMM_eyeshot•

Well, today is Tuesday, and to get ready for Wednesday, today I’ll practice by wearing my UNICORN T-Shirt, from Walmart, I love the spring pastels anyway. It’s very none threatening, where do I get this type of confidence..... you may ask,... JESUS LOVES ME!! And by the way, JESUS IS SO A 🦄! Or a Narwhale, if this was water World, JESUS WOULD DEFINITELY BE A NARWHALE. The prettiest/most beautiful Narwhale... I think that’s Cuban Jesus, he’s also a really good flamingo dancer, my Jesus is probably a 🦄 , cause he’s, really good looking, and he gets the point. 😽😚😘😉

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Routine_Lead_5140the heteros are upseteros•

You're wrong! Jesus is a flamingo! Isn't that obvious? Tall, pink, elegant and fabulous - a beautiful omniscient flamingo! 🦩 AND GAY!

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MMM_eyeshot•

Yeah I’ve known quite a few very fun Jesus types that were happy with themselves in the light! -LOVE

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Kayleeb77•

I colonial war warfare, men's uniform shirts were red. Then once the faded the shirts were passed on to their sons. pink was was the boys color, and blue was the girls until a Macy's marketing campaign in the 20th century.

High Heels also orginally for Male Calvary Officers, to hook the stirrups of the saddle.

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creepybitmapHusband Dumb•

why are you gay?

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riffsixBiromantic™•

Or, better yet, we could have a second, related sub specifically about idiotic anti-lgbt people and this could be about boomer humor "hate my wife" sorta dig?

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manicpixiecuntIs she.. you know..•

Yeah I’d prefer this, I want to see the boomer humor stuff but not the homophobia :(

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SignificantAntelope2•

Same, the homophobia and transphobia just depress and upset me. I come here to laugh and be a little mad, not to feel awful about humanity as a whole.

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MessengerD•

Can it be called wifebad please?

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ReallyDumbMicrowaveonly difference is an enormous penis•

There's a partner bad tag in the sub if that helps :D

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DavisRangerStraight™•

You mean Wednesgay

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Intelligent_News7581•

Amazing

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anxya_vanillaLesbian™•

Wait, so we can only post bigoted things on Wednesdays? I'm confused.

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bleeding-parylOPFuck TERFs•

That is the goal yes.

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anxya_vanillaLesbian™•

Oh, thank you.

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TZf14is it gay to be straight?•

I love how this rule was never enforced

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RoadGrit•

I hope they never do. They probably realized that the homophobic stuff is 50% of there content lol

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HyperPyra•

probably more than 50%

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my-life-is-sponge•

So like, where am I supposed to see these stupid homophobes now ? I liked seeing the idiots complain

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bleeding-parylOPFuck TERFs•

Wednesdays lol

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RoadGrit•

Might have to make a new ATSO sub if they actually decide to enforce this

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my-life-is-sponge•

I’m actually gonna make one, I just need a good name care to help me out ?

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RoadGrit•

Sure! I'll get back to you tomorrow tho. Sleep is calling

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my-life-is-sponge•

Sure thing

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my-life-is-sponge•

You thought of a name yet ?

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LurkinOG•

This sounds like homophobia to me

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Hex_Ruin_Is_Op•

Excuse-me what?

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spinsterchachkieshEtErOpHoBiC•

It’s probably from trolls that are offended by this subreddit and want to get it shut down. They are “REEEE”ing whenever they get made fun of.

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MemeNRG•

Those are probably the same people who believe that LGBT issues aren't really a thing and think that the real issues are heterophobes

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Ihave10husbandySuPeRpHoBiC•

Finally

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RoadGrit•

The homophobic stuff was the reason I joined the sub, is there another sub for that?

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bleeding-parylOPFuck TERFs•

Wednesdays?

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RoadGrit•

Wouldn't it make more sense to make a new sub for the boomer humor and leave this one as it is since more then half of the content is homophobic stuff?

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thenordiner•

Is there a subreddit for that? Because this subreddit serves well for that purpose

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my-life-is-sponge•

But that’s all I come to this sub for, I love these posts

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bleeding-parylOPFuck TERFs•

They're still there... On Wednesdays!

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RoadGrit•

Why wasn't this put to a poll?

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bleeding-parylOPFuck TERFs•

When we put it to a poll a few months ago, we overwhelmingly got back that people didn't want homophobic stuff.

We tried that, no one listened, so we compromised

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RoadGrit•

Did that poll clarify what was meant by homophobic posts? Cause a lot of people may have misunderstood it

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bleeding-parylOPFuck TERFs•

Yes lol

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RoadGrit•

Then thats really disappointing

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RoadGrit•

Is there clarification for what is ok and whats not?

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RoadGrit•

Too many people would rather turn a blind eye to it i guess. Thats disappointing. Ill have to start a new ATSO sub then

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bleeding-parylOPFuck TERFs•

Ok? No one said you couldn't. This post is a month old.

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RoadGrit•

O...k? I never said you said I couldn't but go off I guess. Its just disappointing that people would rather turn a blind eye and pretend there's not an issue

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bleeding-parylOPFuck TERFs•

UTC time makes the most sense, let me clarify that in the OP

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alaskaisgayDestroying Society•

on wednesdays we are homophobic

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GenericBroker•

Hi All. Could someone kindly put me out of my misary. What is this group all about? I couldn't find a description of what this group stands for or it's purpose? The above post is also confusing in that it states, that this subreddit was for straight couples not wanting to be together? What does that have to do with any of the phobic posts and counter phobic posts?

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SignificantAntelope2•

It's about "i hate my wife" boomer humor where the assumption of the joke is that men and women can't get along and hate each other and that it's normal to have a long marriage where you can't stand your spouse. The kinds of people who make those jokes or assumptions tend to also assume absolutely everybody lives just like them and nobody has a healthy relationship between men and women. So you say to yourself "are straight people okay?"

Any adjacent toxic heterosexual attitudes (important: not saying heterosexuality IS toxic, toxic is a specifying descriptor word categorizing a type of attitude) will also be here.

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Zorbix365Ally™•

Making fun of homophobia, mostly

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AnimusNoctis•

Not originally but that's sort of what it's turned into. It was originally just making fun of those jokes/posts where the punchline is "marriage sucks"/"husbands and wives hate each other" and things like that.

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