• ByteJunk@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    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)

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      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.

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        6 days ago

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

      • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works
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        6 days 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

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