• defunct_punk@lemmy.world
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        6 days ago

        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)

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        6 days ago

        Ah, ok, could be.
        I was first thinking of a rifle joke I didn’t get, but your possible explanation makes more sense.

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          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.

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      6 days ago

      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.