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I'm usually pretty gutter brained, but this one took me a second.
Honestly I think unless someone is gay thee generals public are going to just read it as MAMABEAR.
TIL I'm gay
I'm not gay, but who hasn't had the occasional gay thoughts ya know? Haha
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True. Pretty used to considering all gender and sexuality as spectra, where labels can feel arbitrary. But if someone thinks of it as gay, I accept the compliment.
I could see myself reading it either way depending on the layout. At least in my state, license plates have a space between the first 3 letters and the last four, so "M4M" would look a lot more like "M4F" and "F4M", which also seem commonly used, so its not like the notation is unique to gay people. And "bear" and "twink" are both pretty commonly understood.