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Agree. I'm fairly certain a lot of the posts are self-deprecating - eg. "my wife's boyfriend", "i'm a r**d", "someone smarter than me", "i'm a gay bear". My wife doesn't have a boyfriend (hopefully), but I'd say that in a post there.

This isn't necessarily inflammatory. It is - like it or not - WSB's culture. It is not meant to be taken literally.

It is a frothy place, full of herd mentality. That is part of the clique. Going against that does incur the same tone of language against you. But it's not for who you are personally. It's the same language they use to describe the "in group", but it _seems_ worse to the out group.

Is the intent to mock people? No. Does it mean anything negative? No, 99% of it is literally re. the financials. Are there bad people in every group? Yes.

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Can you explain why someone being gay is deprecating?

It's not, and for the record I said "gay bear", not just "gay". For that matter, if pressed I would identify as pansexual. The intent is that it's not meant to be degrading.

Please don't go looking for people to be bad guys - maybe instead assume good intent. You don't have to nit everything people say to find something to prove them wrong. You didn't focus on anything I was communicating - you tried to pick an argument with the smallest aspect of the thread.

I’m not nitpicking anything. Your argument was that it’s all just a joke, that calling yourself gay was self-deprecating. “I’m gay, I’m a retard, laugh at me.”

And now you contradict yourself saying it’s not meant to be degrading because it’s all just a joke.

You’re proving the toxic culture that those kinds of communities ferment.

The 'insult' gay has nothing to do with homosexuality anymore, and I don't know any gay bears either. Realising that puts things in a different light.

"gay bears" is a play on words. Bear is a term in the gay community, just like bull is a term in the hotwife community (my wife's bf jokes apply here). Jokes happen both ways in WSB, straight or gay!

It's self deprecating to go against the market and be a bear in the biggest bull run of the decade. It's foolish to do so. I and many others being bearish have lost money. This is the entire point behind GME.

Like I said, it's all about the financials - not about you as a person.

That's like saying that southerners flying confederate flags is "just their culture, not meant to be taken literally". That dog don't hunt.

Same thing, intent matter.

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