• Lux (it/they)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    Homophobia

    I was raised in a right wing, rural area, and i didn’t meet a gay person til higschool. When he said he was gay, i assumed he was joking.

    Im trans now lol

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      Grew up semi-rural south and same thing but my parents took me to see The Birdhouse for some reason (I was 14) and I was like “OH!”

      Not gay myself, but thankfully I did not grow up to be the bigoted person my parents wanted me to be.

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      it was semi-common in the early 2000s in cities, but not anymore after 2010.

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        if my grandma were to be believed my dad’s babysitter when he was 4 years old infected him with homosexuality then he passed it onto his children because one (me) is trans and the other is bisexual

        She’s not very harmful about it but is just really damn confused lol

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          So if I get this right, your dad turned homosexual from his babysitter… Then proceeded to have two, presumably biologic, kids?

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            Nah the dad was too strong to be brainwashed by the babysitter’s sexual deviance. But those poor baby sperm overhead everything and became infected with the gay.

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            presumably biologic kids

            Yeah, my dad fell for the “get a woman to protect you from same sex attraction” propaganda. Over the years he changed his mind and learned that it’s not something to be ashamed of, but he was in a relationship with kids now.

            when I came out and my mom was very verbally abusive he kinda had the realization that the relationship wasn’t benefiting the children either. Also my mom was very very controlling over who he could talk to/make friends with.

            He is currently in the process of a divorce after 22 years and is coming to terms with how he let fear control his life for that long.

            It’s kinda sad.

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        These must be the so called trans reading bed time stories turning kids gay i keep hearing so much about. /s

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        There’s a reason cities are more liberal. Turns out being surrounded by different cultures, races, sexualities, and beliefs shows you that maybe they’re not so different. In a town of 15k middle American white folks, it’s hard to see another culture equally, let alone at all.

        Same thing with college. There’s no such thing as a liberal or democratic college. It’s just that people are simply surrounded by other people. You learn all of those weird rules and things you were taught don’t actually hold up, and that everyone is kind of the same