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...ok, so if you guys are saying that the comment is benign, how would you warn somebody of the same sex who you expected is making advances on you that you were a heterosexual (aka straight)
Why do you expect him to make advances? Has he given any indication that he is interested in you romantically? Just because he's gay and you're male doesn't mean he'll hit on you. You may be worrying unnecessarily.
...ok, so if you guys are saying that the comment is benign, how would you warn somebody of the same sex who you expected is making advances on you that you were a heterosexual (aka straight)
I have a frown that says it all. Then simply say I have to____________(whatever) and walk away.
the most awkward conversational moment at work, is when you're at the coffee room having the filler conversation that fills in the just the time you need to make the coffee, pour some in your cup, and be on your merry way to your work area. My co-worker (John) was having one of those conversations when the guy there says "straight!", slightly putting his face to the ground.
you know, the other guy said that like my co-worker was a homo-sexual hitting on him. When we asked him what the topic of the conversation was he said he was just ranting about the bad Keurig coffee machine that had not been replaced for like 6 months...nothing remotely personal to the other guy, or sexually oriented for that matter.
...so this begs the question, when somebody at work interrupts your benign conversation with the "straight" remark, how do you respond?
Not odd or naive at all, many humans use real words and proper vocabulary when speaking instead of the many forms of immature slang that runs rampant with some humans.
Actually using straight to mean heterosexual as in the OP would also be slang. Kind of hypocritical to complain about one slang usage and not another of the same word.
...ok, so if you guys are saying that the comment is benign, how would you warn somebody of the same sex who you expected is making advances on you that you were a heterosexual (aka straight)
Do women of your experience often tell you they are gay to get you to stop hitting in them? No, they likely say "no thank I am not interested" or "I am in a relationship" or a million other things rather than just announce their sexuality.
OK, I just had a revelation regarding this thread. The OP's co-worker likely did not mean "I'm straight" (IMHO).
If he had meant that, he would have said "no hom*" or "pause". Look it up on Wikipedia, old white people.
I am a 56-year-old married white male with sons aged 21 and 18. Just two days ago I learned what saying "no ho*o" and "pause" mean. Basically they mean "I'm straight, regardless of that thing I just said that may make it sound otherwise."
NBA player Roy Hibbert was fined $75,000 and forced to apologize to "anyone who was offended" for saying N-H in 2013.
Or maybe I'm so old and white that I don't know that "no h*mo" has been replaced by "straight". Who really knows?
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