• optional@sh.itjust.works
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      13 hours ago

      You don’t have candles on your birthday cake just because you’re grown up? What a sad life.

      No homo, but I love to blow a big candle on my b-day.

  • w3dd1e@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    Aside from the homophobia, they still get birthday cakes with candles that say their age when they are 24?

  • HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Just going to say that looks way more gay than the number 24…

    The more you try to avoid looking gay, the more gay you look. It’s funny coming from a place as gay as Brazil.

    • melfie@lemmy.zip
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      1 day ago

      If you’re not gay, you must prove it by wearing a birthday tiara and listening to nothing but Judy Garland the whole day.

  • Bazell@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    Can someone share some lore what is the connection between being gay and 24 in Brazil?

    • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
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      2 days ago

      I shared it ITT, but basically:

      There’s that stereotype of gay people being flamboyant, and often hopping in excitement. That created a bunch of associations between hopping animals and gay people; e.g. “gazela” (gazelle), “bicha saltitante” (jumping/hopping beast*), but specially “veado” (deer). Often spelled as “viado”.

      And there’s a gambling lottery called “jogo do bicho” (critters’ game, or animals’ game). Illegal but extremely popular, to the point some knowledge of the game is part of the popular culture. It associates 25 animals with numbers, and #24 is “veado” / deer.

      So: if 24 is veado, and veado is gay, then 24 is gay. Plop it into a macho culture, much like in the rest of Latin America, and you’ll see people avoiding the number. Even for their birthdays. Remember Latin America has a macho culture, and that leads to weird paranoias.

      Nowadays it’s mostly a joke; but frankly I don’t like it, it still treats gay people negatively, as if “gay” was “to be avoided”. Roughly in the same level as “we did $thing but no homo!” in English, you know?

    • Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works
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      2 days ago

      There’s an illegal gambling game that has been extremely popular for decades called the animal game (jogo do bicho), in which each number represents an animal. 24 is the deer (veado). There’s also a derogatory word for gay men, viado. The two words sound the same. So 24 is “the deer’s number” but it sounds like “the fag’s number”.

      Viado comes from desviado, which means someone who was driven off the proper path. It’s just a matter of homophony (and homophobia).

        • webp@mander.xyz
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          1 day ago

          This suggests widespread homophobia if enough of them could combine their brainpower to form these few thoughts

          • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
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            11 hours ago

            This suggests widespread homophobia if enough of them could combine their brainpower to form these few thoughts

            Yup, that’s accurate. Welcome to Latin America and its macho culture. People don’t even get why those jokes are bad. Then when the LGBTQ+ community correctly points out that “a piada mata mais do que a bala” (the joke kills more often than the bullet), the default popular reaction is to claim “waaah they’re overreacting” (spoilers: they aren’t).

    • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
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      1 day ago

      Yeah sounds pretty gay (derogatory) to care that much about being seen as gay (celebratory)

  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    I dunno. That one looks a little phallic, could still be a little gay. Why not do 22+2 just to be completely safe? This isn’t something you want to mess around with.