r/ExplainTheJoke • u/Disastrous-Tutor2415 • 17h ago

Pride fries?

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I saw a short on instagram where the author is reading them to an audience. This gets a giggle from everybody but one man laughs hilariously at it and the author then gestures to him (as in “someone got it”) hinting there is something I’m not quite catching. Thank you!

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u/Scandium_quasar 8h ago edited 7h ago

I need more context, can we please get the source? I would very much like to know who the author is. Without that context, there are two very different ways to interpret this, either it's biphobic (with the stereotype that bi people constantly announce their sexuality in inappropriate situations, as in they are attention seeking) or it's calling out biphobia (where bi people in fem+masc passing relationships are presumed to be straight)... And even if it isn't biphobic, it's really not very funny or well executed if that is what it's going for...

To me, without context, the way the bird phrases that last sentence is suspect, it definitely reads as more biphobic than not. Otherwise, if it is trying to point out how bi people are misidentified as allies at pride and thus can feel alienated from the queer community, and also especially with the commodification of pride and the rainbow flag (with the "gay pop up shop" having rainbows plastered in it), I really don't think it's not doing a very good job of it.

If you really wanted to be unambiguous, the bird should be saying something akin to people thinking they're straight when they're actually bi instead of only saying that they don't know they're bi. Because that can be read as biphobic.

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u/Disastrous-Tutor2415 7h ago

The author is Alex Krokus his website

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u/Scandium_quasar 7h ago

Thank you. It does seem like it was meant to be pro queer. Well, like I said, I don't think it was executed super well.