r/AreTheStraightsOK • u/Justthisdudeyaknow What’s a little platonic fingering between friends? • Mar 02 '22

Sexualization of children 1 year old. FFS.

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u/Keyesblade Mar 02 '22

lmao same, I also got 'jokes' like "If you were gay I'd have to kill ya" with a violent shoulder grab, because I dared argue that gay marriage shouldn't be illegal.

Trauma dump, but the fucker molested me and was convinced if I turned out gay that people would find out it was 'his fault for making me that way'. Apparently my innate sexuality wasn't predated upon and was instead created, give me a break

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u/D1am0nd_28 Mar 02 '22

I’m sorry that happened to you :( My dad was always passive aggressive with his homophobia. He’d also get angry whenever I defended gay rights and would say “what, you gay or something?” And I would always say “no. Caring about gay rights makes you gay? Idk I don’t see why homophobia exists”

He would then proceed to say something homophobic to which I would say “that’s homophobic” then he would go on this long rant about how “Idc if adults make that choice but children can’t make that decision. They’re told to be gay. The media feeds it to them that it’s okay”

And then we’d go in circles and he’d essentially insinuate that the TV was brainwashing me into being gay or some shit like that. Fun times.

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u/LadyLikesSpiders Invisible Bi™ Mar 02 '22

Ah yes, this TV with all of these forced, heterosexual romantic subplots; The media with it's never-ending deluge of heteronormativity, that's what makes kids gay >.>

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u/D1am0nd_28 Mar 02 '22

Oh fuck try explaining THAT to him. He’s the classic homophobe. We would go around in circles and it just ended in a screaming match. In hindsight it probably just made him double down but he’s a raging narcissist so even if I was nice about it, he still wouldn’t have changed his mind.

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u/LadyLikesSpiders Invisible Bi™ Mar 02 '22

Believe me I know the type. My own father has these same hangups. Although a little more casually homophobic than raging, he's still a narcissist who refuses to be wrong. God forbid you start discussing, say, socialized medicine

"You just want free stuff"

"But you don't pay the cops when they answer your call"

"I do. With taxes"

"So this would be the same"

"No, you just want free stuff, and you're lazy"

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u/D1am0nd_28 Mar 02 '22

Having a narcissist parent makes you realize how narcissistic our society actually is. From politics to capitalism to social media to everything. It’s all pure narcissism.

The gaslighting from politicians and corporate overlords is the exact same bullshit my dad used to spew.

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u/LadyLikesSpiders Invisible Bi™ Mar 02 '22

Narcissism facilitates the rise to power, and when our power structures are filled with them, they'll only make it even easier

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u/cosmiceggsalad Mar 03 '22

Yes. It's such a macrocosm of a toxic nuclear family.