I (7+ years closeted to parents) made a comment about California’s first hurricane in 80+ years, and she responded with something like,

Maybe it will wash out all the gays and wicked people

🙄😮‍💨

Really?! I didn’t even know how to respond to that.

Also, somehow or another I guess it’s gotta come out.

  •  Telorand   ( @Telorand@kbin.social ) 
    7•1 year ago

    Also, somehow or another I guess it’s gotta come out.

    Probably only recommended if you’re financially independent and live elsewhere. If things go poorly, you need a way to be able to leave. And if you have those first two, it’s probably best to do it slowly/gradually.

    But for your first question, “That’s horrible. Why would you wish that on other people?” is often a great go-to to make people introspect. They might not do it in that moment, but your kids calling your thoughts and desires horrible has a way of sticking with you. (Source: am a parent)

    And if you don’t live with your parents, you could even throw in, “What if I lived in California? Would you still wish for the hurricane?”

    •  BruceTwarzen   ( @BruceTwarzen@kbin.social ) 
      3•1 year ago

      I used to work a job for 2 weeks a year where i had to supervise 65 20 to 39 year olds. I hated it, mainly because getting thrown into 65 random men is never fun to me. Listening to a bunch of bigots and very often very racist people is the worst. I never told much about me, but often out of bordom, i made it seem that i’m gay. No one gace me shit for it, but they often made even more sure that i don’t hear their funny jokes. Every now and then i would ask a random guy what even his fucking problem with gay people is. And bo joke, everyone had basically the same story: i don’t mind gay people, as long as they don’t hit on me, followed by how they once got hit on by a gay dude and almost killed him with their mighty fists.
      These are some often right win very overweight and not attractive people at all. I used to hang out in gay bars a lot, and people are generally very nice in there and i often got drinks by some guys, but i got never just hit on in some random bar by a random gay guy.

      Tl;dr almost every bigot i talked to has a story how a gay guy hit on them which made them very very angry.

      •  LifeInMultipleChoice   ( @LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.ml ) English
        2•1 year ago

        Sometimes people are just hateful. A Christian I worked with was always very forward and speaking of god at least once a day. I lived in Panama City Beach in 2018 when Hurricane Michael came through. The storm turned to the East at the last minute and PCB they had been told to evacuate (many evacuated into Panama City being it wasn’t told to evacuated which is to the East). Base of the story, PC got hit harder than PCB. Several times I heard that coworker saying he hoped another hurricane came and hit PCB (where he lived as well) because he didn’t believe the people there had learned “gods lesson.”

        He didn’t care how many people lost their homes and jobs.