Yurgh. That must suck big suckables through sucking things. :P
My mother (I think) has this bizarre ingrained belief that homosexuality is somehow some kind of weird contagious disease. She freaked out about my wanting to join a hotline for gay people at my university, telling me that in order to help "those people" (her favourite phrase for designating those she considers to be "Other") I would have to understand them, and in order to understand them I would have to be like them.
So by a process of osmosis, I would become gay, which of course would be a Bad Thing™.
*shakes head*
I think my father would be okay with it, at least intellectually. He's very left–leaning (my mother tends to be rabidly conservative even though she doesn't vote that way), works hard for the rights of the working–class and for feminist movements, and one of his younger brothers is gay (but otherwise extremely troubled for a number of reasons).
Much more noodling to be done on the subject.
Am sorry to hear your Parental Units aren't supportive. For me that's always the hardest blow. :(
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Date: 2003-03-06 09:40 pm (UTC)My mother (I think) has this bizarre ingrained belief that homosexuality is somehow some kind of weird contagious disease. She freaked out about my wanting to join a hotline for gay people at my university, telling me that in order to help "those people" (her favourite phrase for designating those she considers to be "Other") I would have to understand them, and in order to understand them I would have to be like them.
So by a process of osmosis, I would become gay, which of course would be a Bad Thing™.
*shakes head*
I think my father would be okay with it, at least intellectually. He's very left–leaning (my mother tends to be rabidly conservative even though she doesn't vote that way), works hard for the rights of the working–class and for feminist movements, and one of his younger brothers is gay (but otherwise extremely troubled for a number of reasons).
Much more noodling to be done on the subject.
Am sorry to hear your Parental Units aren't supportive. For me that's always the hardest blow. :(