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Explanation? I don't get it...
Not sure i get it either, but im guessing M4BEAR is a gay male looking for a hairy gay man.
Close, but not quite.
"M4M" itself is gay slang meaning "man looking for man." You're right about "bear."
So the license plate can really be interpreted as "Man looking for man (specifically, a bear" or, more juicy, "male looking to arrange a gay threesome with at least one bear" (hmu if this is you)
Im down, but we still need a bear.
Basically it's this https://lemmy.world/post/42299303
I looked at that post for like 2 or 3 minutes earlier and didn't see it until you linked it. Im not as depraved as I thought I guess.
Craigslist used to be absolutely wild, this would be tame on a Tuesday.
All that being said, I don't see the problem. I think most people who read M4M would also see MAMA, just like OP did.
Just got to love how people downvote this when clearly both groups would not get it wrong.
Male For Male For Bear
Ah, ok, could be.
I was first thinking of a rifle joke I didn't get, but your possible explanation makes more sense.
M4M = Male for male or Man for man, M4Bear = Man/male for bear. So it's a double gay advert
Does a double gay make it straight again, like a double negative?
According to Justin Timberlake, Andy Samberg, and Lady Gaga, it's not gay when it's in a three-way. Just ignore the context from the video and the line that comes after, and you're good.
They are right, its bi not gay. Gay would be all men silly.
Or a threesome
Not could be, is. Any classified ad type of partner searching uses the M4W format (man for woman in that case). Not as common now as it was before tinder and the like, but people used to post what they were looking for in a partner in places like Craigslist, and even newspapers although I believe those spelled out man for woman.
It sounds like a advert of homosexual men looking for a specific type of other homosexual men to meet up with.
"Bear" can be slang for a muscular, but heavy-set guy with lots of body hair in those circles.
So W4W4BEAR would have interesting ambiguities...
It’s hard to find those videos
OMG there's a bear in the convenience store!
Male for male for bear (hairy man)
I would guess gay threesome