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A white guy with a beard would not be called that in a small town.
They’re more likely to be mistaken as a fellow racist.
I got called that when I flipped off a guy in a lifted truck who almost rammed into my car on purpose in a parking lot
I'm a white guy with a beard
Probably projection.
Dude is wearing a nice coat and a scarf. Don't you know if you are not wearing a trucker hat and a coat from the army surplus store that you are a fag.
can confirm, any guy wearing a scarf in the sticks is probably (considered by others to be) a fag
I was in WV visiting family for Thanksgiving. I wasn't wearing incredibly nice clothing, but it wasn't just a hoodie or whatever other junk is cheap. I really felt out of place (which I was). I was getting a hotdog at a place that only opens for two days every year now, that was a staple a famous, and the next nicest clothes was probably some old guy wearing a jacket either from a surplus store or from Vietnam or something.
The good news is no one cared. I wasn't called anything and no one seemed to be bothered. I am a straight white man though.
True, if your Carhartt looks unweathered you’ll get glances
As someone who wears a surplus Czech army field jacket, I take umbridge with thine implications. Surplus is just thrift with a bias towards khaki, camo, and questionable food products. Also you can get some pretty solid storage boxes via surplus vendors, I keep my bungies and jumpers in a waterproof 30mm ammo case in the bed of my truck
It would have to be someone who knows him, or something about his style, accessories, or behavior, that emboldened a stranger to assume he was gay. The comic gives no hint at any of this being evident.
Or maybe that guy calls everyone a faggot because he’s always confrontational.
I assumed he's exhibiting casual homophobia rather than actually knowing Adam's sexual orientation.
In some places, it's basically supplanted the word "asshole" for a lot of people.
My boss is from a small town and, for religious reasons, doesn't swear and is deeply uncomfortable with it.
But we asked one day if there's a swear he does use he said
"I hate to admit it, but faggot rolls off my tongue too easily."
Its the closest he's ever come to swearing.
A guy who called everybody that would get his ass beat pretty quick in a small town.
Depends on how trim and tidy it is.
Not very
I don't know if you noticed, but beards made a comeback during the pan.
I always wanted to grow a beard, and the confinement was the ideal situation to see if it suited me. Never shaved since then, and I think I never will. Beards are great.
I’ve had a beard since 2011 so I may not have noticed
People really think the south/rural areas have people being giant racist homophobes to strangers... No they save that for people they know or think will agree with them
Here's where you're wrong
Their litmus test for "people they think will agree with them" is just: be a white man.
I am a burly white dude. Tall, big beard, I look like I walked out of the mountains.... Unprompted, some white people will casually say some unhinged rascist shit to me. And have, many times.
One time there was a shooting nearby, a white maintenence worker told me about it, and then without missing a beat goes "it was two black guys shooting at eachother, so much for brotherly love, right?"
Another time, in a gas station up in the sticks, Im buying a can of monster. Some white stranger, unprompted, taps me on the shoulder starts telling me about how the logo is a Jewish letters for the sign of the devil.....
So, no, you dont have to be someone these people know.... you just have to a white man. They assume any white man (especially masculine presenting) is one of them.
Yep this has been 100% my experience too. How do you deal with them?
depends on how much you want to fuck with em, in the case of jewphobia i like to give em a l'chaim.
"oh shit, the jews really are everywhere"
I tend to look like a hippie that was forced to dress up for church and people definitely just assume I'll agree with their racist bullshit because I'm white.
Haha, I would disagree with that. I've had "fuck you, fag" yelled at me many times in rural areas.
Yep, a few feet of the Purdue campus and suddenly started getting called a removed by random drivers
Why is this one removed but the others are not
I had a very similar experience on campus a couple years back, Indiana is not the place to be.
i'm pretty sure i give off "hey, whatever your views whoever you are i'll accept and validate you" vibes in person then, because jesus the titties on a walrus on a jetski christ the things some people have confided in me.