January 2012
- my "friend": Homosexual people are disgusting. They should understand that love can exist only between a man and a woman.
- me: Do you love your boyfriend?
- my "friend": Of course! I love him so much. You can't even imagine. I've never been so in love in my life. I want to marry him.
- me: So please imagine now that your boyfriend's penis disappears and suddenly he has a vagina. Nothing else changes in him, he's still the same person you know. What is your reaction?
- my "friend": That would be horrible. I don't want to even think about it. I couldn't imagine being with him.
- me: That means you don't love him. You love only his dick. That's sad.
~put the tv on mute.
~put my headphones in only to mouth the words to the songs I’m listening to.
~mentally swearing at the character I’m fighting
Yep I’m not insane :)
and you overhear her on the phone telling people her version of it.
Yesterday my mom posted a picture on Facebook of my 5 year old brother Sam wearing a pair of shoes he picked out for his first day of preschool.
She explained to him in the store that they were really made for girls. Sam then told her that he didn’t care and that “ninjas can wear pink shoes too.”
Sam went to preschool and got several compliments on his new shoes. Not one kid said anything negative toward him about it.
However, my mom received about 20 comments on the photo from various family members saying how “wrong” it is and how “things like this will affect him socially” and, put most eloquently by my great aunt, “that shit will turn him gay.”
My mom then deleted the photo and told Sam that he can wear whatever he wants to preschool, that it’s his decision. If he wants to wear pink shoes, he can wear pink shoes.
Sam then explained to her that he didn’t like them because they were pink, he liked them because they were “made out of zebras” and zebras are his favorite animal :)


