There is a new trend on Tik Tok
that's going viral right now where
people are identifying as a new
sexual orientation known
as super straight no one asked
these people what kind of or
sexual orientation they had they
just decided they were going to
volunteer as super straight.
The movement which started on Tik
Tok has quickly become popularized
on 4chan because of course it is
and is now being used by far right
trolls as a way to mock and
invalidate trans people and
their identities.
Let's take a look at the clip that
started it all.
>> You guys, I made a new sexuality
now actually,
it's called super straight.
Okay?
Since straight people or
straight men as myself,
I get called transphobic because I
wouldn't date a trans woman, you're
like, would you date a trans woman?
I'm like no, why?
That's a female no, that's not
a real woman to me I want real I'm
no you're just transphobic so now,
I'm super straight.
I only date the opposite gender,
women that are born women.
So you can't say I'm trans-phobic
now, because that's just my
sexuality.
>> So like my position has been,
and always will be,
have sex with anyone you want to as
long as they consent to it.
It's weird that he's like these
weird defensive posture of like, so
you can't be mad at me that I don't
want to have sex with trans women.
It's like I was never mad at you
for that in the first place.
Do you feel like you need to come
up with this new term in order to
set yourself apart?
I mean know the right wing troll
death.
Protest too much me thinks.
>> Yeah, I don't know that we're
doing this story just for
how hilarious it is.
So this kind of serious component.
We'll talk about it in a second.
But when my eight year old daughter
walks into the room, and says I
didn't just eat the last cookie.
I got news for you first of all
that cookie is good.
Okay, second of all,
I have an excellent sense of who
might be the culprit.
So when you walk into a room and
declare I am super straight,
I probably got news for you.
And it ain't that you're
super straight.
[LAUGH] I'd like the need to
declare that.
Is so revoltary, right?
So I've never seen anyone spring
into a room saying I'm not gay
that didn't have something running
through their heads.
Okay and and so now that there's
a serious component is that look,
guys, I don't know if anybody I
mean, I don't know if any part of
this has a Tsushima okay, but who
asked you, right was I don't know.
And by the way, if this is a real
phenomenon that I'm against that
phenomenon to, people say you must
have sex with certain people I
didn't know that was a thing.
I didn't know that we were asking
for preemptive pledges.
Right?
So I don't agree with preemptive
pledges Jack, would you have sex
with a Bulgarian woman?
Likely, but I don't know.
[LAUGH] I've never met
a Bulgarian woman.
I don't know, right?
I didn't know that was
a thing, right?
But for them to when no one is
asking to jump out of the bushes be
like, don't try to get me to have
sex with that attractive trans
woman because I won't do it.
Okay, but nobody was trying.
I mean, I think you're probably
having a decent amount of trouble
with any kind of woman.
But there were a lot of people
offering and you're going to get
to choose and you say no, no, no I
know you I know everybody wants to
have sex with that attractive trans
woman, but I won't.
I won't do it.
Okay, if you say so.
>> Did we brainstorm other
names in the meantime for
this sexual orientation, I feel
like we could do better than super
straight like, it's super straight.
It seems like a superhero who.
And all the people that I know whom
I would describe as super straight.
Not one of them feels the need to
go out there and
be I am super straight.
It's like you're just who you are.
And if I guarantee I guarantee you
that this guy would be attracted.
To, just like if he likes
hetero women, and
sees a trans woman who looks,
in that guy's interpretation,
like a hetero woman, he would
in that moment be attracted to her.
And then he wouldn't be like that.
So I think that would disprove
the fact that this guy is actually
as he describes it super straight.
Because how would you know,
describing yourself as
this has nothing to do with your
physical level of attraction.
It has to do with your
political ideology.
So that disqualifies this from
being an actual sexual orientation,
because you would have to how would
you know, except in the moment you
were attracted to that person, but
then your political proclivities,
not your sexual instincts kicked
in, and we're like, no, no, no.
I can't do this that's not okay.
And people do that all the time.
That's the kind of dynamic that
factors in when people are talking
about sex before marriage.
They're attracted to someone but
their religion tells them they
can't do it, but trying to chalk
this up as some kind of like.
Sexual orientation slash I'm not
going to have sex with these people
get out of
jail free card is ridiculous.
>> Yeah, look,
there's some great logical points
there that Brad just made there.
So, in essence what they seem to be
saying is we are not going to have
sex with these women even though
we find them attractive.
>> Like super hot, super hot and
we're not.
>> Okay, great.
>> Even though they're the hottest
women we've ever seen.
We're not going to
do it because we're super straight.
>> Okay, but let's acknowledge what
you just said.
[LAUGH] I'm like super, I tried
to that but I'm not going to do it.
I'm not going to do it for
other reasons, okay?
All right I mean look, by the way,
again, nobody
is putting a gun to your head.
And nobody is even asking let alone
putting a gun on you.
And if Liberals ever get to a point
where they are demanding
that people have sex with certain
kinds of other people.
Then I'm going to be on your side.
I'm going to say no.
Because I actually believe in
the hashtag of freedom.
So don't worry we don't even want
to sleep with you,
let alone making you sleep with us.
Okay, so whoever us is.
So now look, I want to break it
down a little bit further.
Another good point that Brad made
is you don't see George Clooney and
Brad Pitt going out there and being
hey guys, I'm definitely straight.
Hey, in fact, you're very
progressive on these issues.
Why?
because they have enormous
confidence.
They don't have to prove it to
anyone, all right.
Nobody's asking like everybody
knows it.
They don't have to go around
pretending, I'm the straightest guy
you've ever met.
Okay, so it reminds me a little bit
of the guys buying Magnum condoms,
if you say so, okay?
[LAUGH] But the super straight
has a second problem.
It's SS, right?
So that's the initials.
Now if you say, hey Jake, my God,
you guys are stretching to find
a Nazi angle here.
What the hell, etc.
No, no, it's not us.
It's a post on 4chan.
So 4chan is the right
wing trolls, etc.
And they're saying that they
they love it because it's OSS and
they're pushing
it out because it's SS.
So for at least some of them,
I guarantee you it's the internet.
A lot of people don't know right?
And they might be calling
themselves super straight.
They have no idea what's going
on 4chat.
Right?
But some do know.
And they're trying to head you in
that direction and they love it.
Right? And and by the way,
this is something we've talked
about in the past and
there's a lot of data behind this,
an entry point for extreme right
wing ideology is massaging.
Because it's an easy way to get the
15 year old boys and sometimes boys
that are way older than that, but
I've never been sure like all those
it is something you can't get laid.
First [INAUDIBLE], it's definitely
not your fault, right?
Definitely not.
No, it's somebody else's fault.
Yeah.
Great. Give me someone to blame.
And the fortune folks are like,
yes, I'll give you someone to blame
and you go down the list, women,
Jews, blacks, Latinos, Muslims,
if it wasn't for the Muslims,
getting all the women.
>> Right. >> Is that
really a problem in America?
Okay? But they get them
to believe that because it's so
intoxicating to say.
That you don't have personal
responsibility.
That's the great irony of
the right wing.
They don't want personal
responsibility.
They want to be able to say,
I would have been all these things
that I would have gotten all
the girls if it wasn't for
those desperately progressives.
>> Yeah, there's a one little
extra wrinkle that I do want
to bring up as they have developed.
First of all it got banned.
That hashtag got banned, and
the guy who put this up got banned.
From Tik Tok but they
do have their own pride flag and
they tweeted what is super straight
this is a new sexuality.
That means you only attracted what
we just said.
Cisgender women or men, and
then their their flag is black and
orange, which it has been pointed
out is also the color scheme for
Grindr.
Which is the gay dating app.
So.
>> It's a little on the nose,
did I know it's also Halloween
which it is also the Grindr colors.
So that's all,
that's all I'm going to say.
Well, I mean, come on, guys.
>> I mean, you're going to
do something that's anti gay but
you can take the colors of Grindr.
I mean if you say so.
Okay, so I mean you guys are so
obvious you're so obvious and
by the way, there's nothing wrong
with that people are closeted and
they come out later and we're
going to we believe in redemption.
So brothers and sisters don't
worry you'll have redemption.
On the flip side when you get to
the other place when you're mature
to center whatever is going on in
your head and if you're
actually are straight, but you got
riled up into hate and stuff.
And you thought this will show him,
okay, we're open to redemption
there too but
not until you actually are not
hating on other people.
But look,
I'll give you two more things for
this because now again,
this is a serious point.
Look here I actually don't agree
with banning them and that's
a really interesting debate maybe
we'll have that on another show
that but I believe in countering
them with mocking speeches I'm
doing right here [LAUGH] You guys
speech I got speech brother.
Okay you got colors grinders got
colors.
Hey, look at that it's a match
anyway, so swipe left.
You got it.
Anyways, look, I give
you the example I often give that I
know it's a little strange for
Americans because
there's barely any Turks here and
so it's kind of feels weird.
Why are we talking about this tiny
little ethnicity?
Just because it's such a good
example here in Germany Turks
are an ethnic minority and
often oppressed and and
discriminated against.
If you have Turkish pride in
Germany that makes perfect sense.
In Turkey Turks are the majority
and have often
oppressed other minorities.
If you have Turkish pride in Turkey
it could create a problem because
that means I'm, the majority is
rising up against the minority.
You see context matters.
So when you say, hey, I'm just
proud to be super straight.
No, wait a minute.
Straight people in this
country have not been an oppressed
minority.
If you think that's the case,
then you don't know any history,
you don't know any context, and you
don't know the current date either.
Are people, super straight men
being beat to death in the streets?
No.
Are trans women?
Yes.
So, I know that
you're desperate to be a victim,
but there are actual victims
of actual violence in this country.
And they're not in your category.
I know your solicitous of being in
that category, but you don't really
know what you're asking for.
You just want the victim hood
without the pain.
So this is
your silly way of doing it.
Understand that straight white men
in this country have never
been the oppressed minority and
framing it like they are.
Makes you sound super silly.
Sorry that that's also SS.