this has been on my mind a lot. I follow some lesbian meme shitposting groups and there's tons of memes that are just like "This girl looked at me and I died and then she smiled at me and I came back to life" and I just cannot think of any cishet men's spaces that bring that have that level of absolutely dorky dysfunctional love for women. And, like, cishet men, their whole thing is supposed to be being in to women, and that just strikes me as really weird that there's not an equivalent. Like the closest I can think of is wife guy memes but that's just one wife, usually.

Do any spaces like that exist? Is it even possible given the way gender works in society?

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[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago

softboi performative harmlessness (usually a lie)

The ancestor of that was performative fake-gay posing, particularly among college cishet fratbros, specifically to try to get laid in an underhanded "I am your sassy lisping friend that gets to insult you but on the downlow I just want to score more BAAAAANG points and then abandon you" way.

Shit was everywhere in college life in the early 2000s.