• Old Sage Rick@lemmy.zipEnglish
      71·
      1 day ago

      M4M4BEAR = man for man for bear

      Bear in this context means a hairy man who is big

      While the X4X is common notation for roleplays and other sexual stuff with the first X being the seeker, seeking for(4) the second X, it can develop into a train like here where a man is looking for an other man and a bear(man)

      Edit: Typo

      • redballooon@lemmy.world
        1·
        8 hours ago

        Uh. Your brain must be wired in a specific way to read that like this and then think it was meant that way.

        • Old Sage Rick@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          8 hours ago

          Its read phonetically, so M (four/for) M and so on, the only thing you learn is what the specific gender symbols mean (i.e. M = man).

          But isn’t it like, how everyone reads? Hence why there are shortcuts like u for you, ur for your, and such?

      • humorlessrepost@lemmy.worldEnglish
        37·
        2 days ago

        Just semantically, I’d expect m4m4bear to be a man seeking a man who is seeking a big hairy man.

        Like Bob wants to find a big hairy man, but doesn’t want to go it alone, and so wants another man as a partner in the persuit.

        I just realized this is why my friends think I have the tism.

        • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
          18·
          2 days ago

          It could also mean that the seeker is a bear, and is looking for another man, but that man must be interested in bears, so they would be interested in him.

          Man seeking (Man who is seeking a bear)

        • Old Sage Rick@lemmy.zipEnglish
          7·
          2 days ago

          Semantically I would agree with you since usually the nomenclature is tonuse a + or & to denote that the seeker is looking for two or more people, however I have seen a 4 train often enough for it to be also a common way.

          Also cheers for the tism