• Poplar?@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      There can be unhealthy, weird “culture” around straight relationships and jokes about how your wife sucks is an example of it.

      Asking “are the straights ok” is to express that you notice an example of that, obviously not an actual question about how were doing.

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          As I pointed out, “are the straights ok” has nothing to do with actual wellbeing. Its meant to express surprise the same way someone might reply to “I like pineapples on pizza” with “are you ok?”.

          Theres nothing to take offence over. Im straight myself. I probably did a bad job at explaining what the phrase takes aim at. See /r/AreTheStraightsOK on Reddit for examples of what it means.