I’m gay.
My dad is not pleased with this fact. Completely homophobic.
Half the time his homophobia doesn’t even make sense.
>Fishing show on TV in the living room
>Watching it with mom and dad
>Mom: "I don’t have the patience for that kind of stuff
>Me: “It doesn’t feel like too long when you’re out there”
>Dad: “Time flies when you’re a removed.”
>Go to my room
It’s getting ridiculous. He goes out of his way to respond to everything I do by calling me a removed.
Story about my southern grandparents, but grandad in particular.
So my grandparents born in the 19 teens in rural Alabama. They said the n-word with a hard r until the day they died. But grandma had a friend named Loraine. Loraine’s husband worked at the same steel mill as grandpa. They also had a kid same age and school as my uncle named Wayne.
Wayne always came to holidays at our house. He was flamboyant to say the least, but a super nice guy. When Wayne wasn’t around I’d hear grandma talk about him occasionally. She’d say things like “being gay isn’t a choice, because you could tell Wayne was different when he was too little to know what gay was”.
Fast forward and grandpa dies. After the service the family is standing around with grandma. Wayne walks up and tells grandma. “I wish grandpa had been my dad. My dad hated me for being gay, but grandpa always treated me like all the other kids”.
Wayne sent my grandma flowers every excuse he got till the day she died.
I’ve always felt like if those 2 old school bigots could figure out that gay isn’t a choice. Why can’t the rest of the world?
Well fortunately for your grandparents it wasn’t yet time for ones bigotry and ignorance to be worn like a badge of honor as is tradition today so they weren’t vilified for trying to think of Wayne as a human.
Anon’s father is gay.
I dunno about anyone else, but this greentext has always been one of my favorites. It perfectly describes my family’s childish, belligerent dialogue on homosexuality, so I feel for anon. Hopefully he managed to get out.
Fake and gay.
Fake, Anon is Homo
Gay, Anon is Gay.
am i do this rite guys?
If anyone brings tendiesbot to lemmy I will commit acts.
Posts like this make me glad I’m already at the stage in my life where I can afford living separately from my family so I just don’t give a shit about what they think
Exactly why I never came out to my parents. I think they knew, since my stepfather would semi regularly tell me that if I came out as gay he would kick me out of the house.
Jokes on him, he’s dead now and I’m still bisexual.
See, this is actually one of the rare times when violence is the answer.
One good kick to the nuts, and a “you ever fuck with me again, you’ll sing soprano”, and it’s going to back the guy down. It doesn’t have to even be super aggro, just casually roll up and do it, then say it calmly, and walk away.
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No, but in very narrow circumstances, controlled violence to back down continued abuse does work wonders.
People will only bully and abuse people they think they can get away with it towards. I’m those cases, controlled violence is an effective tool because it draws a firm boundary and expresses the consequences for crossing it.
Someone behaving like the “dad” in the story posted is only doing it because they think they can get away with it. That kind of person is very likely to back the fuck off when the son backs them the fuck off. Remember, they’re already using the threat of violence in the posted scenario. The only realistic response to a threat of violence, when outside assistance via legal recourse isn’t available, is shutting them the fuck down hard and fast.
