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[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Supposedly they're different conversations, where each man is addressing a woman.

Took me quite a while, even with all the comments. To me they're just gay dudes and the one labelled "alpha" has a thing for ~~transvestites~~ crossdressers? (sorry if wrong word, not native speaker)

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

I'm writing this reply not as a correction, but as advice from a native english speaker. The word "transvestite" has fallen out of use due to connotations (bigotry). I would use cross-dressing here, instead of transvestite. It's a word that USA-english speakers mostly avoiding using because there are less ambiguous ones (use transwoman/transman for trans people, use cross-dressing for cis people preforming a role/fetish).

Your choice of word was not incorrect, it has just fallen out of fashion.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Thank you for the perspective, amended my post. Didn't remove it completely to allow others the same insight.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

had to tell my English teacher the same thing last Friday. She reads a lot of historical books, so it makes sense that there'd be some confusion lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Thank you! I could only see it as the alpha wanted the beta to dress like a chick so they could bone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

ohhh wow I never would've gotten that by myself lmao