Condescending explanation of something about the LGBTQ+ community and/or experience by a cishet person to a member of the community.
Cishet: You can't be gay, I have a gay friend and you're nothing like them. Gay people are *insert stereotype*
Non-cishet: Please stop straightsplaining my own sexuality.
1. When a LGB person is in a friendship with a straight person, but makes it clear up front that their relationship cannot mature beyond a designated limit, simply because they are straight.
2. A safe emotional distance LGB people can keep from their straight friends.
3. A term LGB people use to advert to their relationship with Allies.
"I feel like Matthew isn't being really open with me, maybe it's because I'm straight?"
"Dude, you totally got straightzoned!"
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"Selena, why don't you trust me, is it because I'm not gay?"
"I always have one in mind about straight people."
"So this means I'm in the straightzone."
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"I wanna come with you at the gay bar."
"I would rather you don't."
"Straightzoned again..."
A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.
For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!
Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flying everywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.
A plate of brown consists of foods that have little to no nutritional value, and are typically deep fried. A true plate of brown will also be accompanied by a dark soda.
When finance content creators rent out fancy cars and flexcash to seem richer than they really are in order to promote and sell their “get rich quick” courses.