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[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 198 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You don't say? We used to just call that fuckin'!

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 100 points 1 month ago

What will the kids today think of next!

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 133 points 1 month ago

How I Eventually Met Your Mother.

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 97 points 1 month ago (7 children)

At first read, I thought the dad was confessing to cheating on OP's mum with dudes but now my question is...then what did the dad think it was?

"Bisexual" isn't really a new term. And for someone who has been fucking around, you think they would've run into the term sooner.

[–] Demdaru@lemmy.world 79 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Dude has no time for some useless words. He's shaggin, and everybody knows. xD

[–] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago

That dad fucks

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 64 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Some people are really detached from the culture they live in.

Or it could be made up. Who knows?

But I can definitely attest to some older folk not knowing what 'bisexual' means, especially in a rural or semirural area.

[–] IzzyScissor@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can confirm. I had an older coworker come out to me by saying that her husband "never judged her for having girlfriends in the past", but didn't know the language around it. She was treated so poorly by so many people that she didn't feel like a part of the gay community, moreso ashamed and judged. She couldn't talk to people about it, so when would she have learned those words?

Sometimes it takes someone younger being open about it for the older generation to even realize that there are words for it now.

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Which is also weird, because girlfriend can also mean a platonic female friendship.

Rather inconsistent use of language actually.

[–] Kanda@reddthat.com 2 points 1 month ago

How dare they

[–] liv@lemmy.nz 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I remember during the AIDS crisis health workers starteed to use the phrase "Men who have Sex with Men" in their education outreach partly because a significant number of these men did not self-identify as gay or bi.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

As someone who is deep into cruising culture, very many “straight” men sleep with dudes. They’d never be in a relationship with another guy, but they don’t care who sucks their dick.

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)
  1. It doesn't say he's cheating, he could mean in his entire life he had sex with others including men, but now with their mom he doesn't.
  2. If he's still having sex with others, it doesn't have to be cheating. They can have an open relationship or be ~~polygamous~~ polyamorous.
  3. It nowhere says he's still together with their mom.

You're making assumptions.

Edit: spelling mistake.

[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Just a comment, you've said "Polygamous" where the correct word is "Polyamorous". They are not the same. Polygamy is marriage of multiple partners, often in "sister-wives" situations and often related to patrocentric power expectations in certain smaller religious instituions and cults. Polyamory is a romantic orientation allowing for multiple romantic or sexual partners. While the type of polycule a polyamorous person engages in will vary from person to person, the harem of wives thing doesn't really happen in polyamorous circles.

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

You are completely correct, I think I made a spelling error and autocorrect changed it to this without me realizing. I'm polyamorous myself :)

[–] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Polygamy, polygyny, and polyamory are all separate things, basically

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

For doing such a close reading on the OP, you really skimped on my comment. Y'know, where I said "on first read" before amending with "but now", meaning I had one assumption but it shifted.

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yet you made the assumption, wrote it down, and moved focus on something else instead of saying it doesn't have to be cheating. There's still a statement where you say you think he confessed to cheating, which I think is an assumption which doesn't have to be true, as I explained.

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

I also don't think it has to be true. That's why I stopped thinking it and thought the other thing.

I'm gonna stop here, m8. You're feeling some type of way, you've taken your own reading of what I wrote, and I'm not interested.

[–] dontbelievethis@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Maybe the reason is that it's fiction?

[–] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 12 points 1 month ago

are you saying someone lied to us?

propostrotous

[–] nanoswarm9k@lemmus.org 1 points 1 month ago

username checks out

[–] lunarul@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

I can imagine him just living a hippie life, not putting labels on things, just shagging whomever he felt like.

[–] FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It definitely wasn’t mainstream here in the Netherlands up until the mid 1990’s from my perspective. Any guy who did things with another guy was ‘gay’, irrespective of anything that they might engage in with women.

I imagine if that guy grew up in say, the 70’s UK, they genuinely might not have been aware that ‘bisexual’ was a thing you could be.

[–] bytesonbike@discuss.online 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It still is in a lot of cultures.

You can hook up with millions of women but you accidentally blow a guy and everyone labels you gay.

[–] MrAlternateTape@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Do they cal me John the Jane fucker? No. Do they call me John the Mary fucker? No. But you fuck one goat....

[–] oatscoop@midwest.social 16 points 1 month ago

cheating

We often forget some people do have lives before they "settle down" and get married.

[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 93 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Check out dad, whoring it up like a champ.

Well, maybe just slutting it up; no idea if he went pro

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 41 points 1 month ago

Same

"At least you don't have it from strangers".

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 month ago

Hell, you're lucky he switched from anal, time to time. 🤷🏼‍♂️

[–] tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago
[–] Reckless_Moose@ttrpg.network 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So what did he call it then? Half-Dandy, Semi-Sly, Republican?

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 14 points 1 month ago
[–] robocall@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago