my mum, when I was a teenager: “you know, I’ve got nothing against the gays but I’d be devastated if your brother was one”
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my brother is threatening to turn up to his hair appointment in booty shorts and knee pads and she is cackling in delight and daring him to do it
my brother shaved his beard off and frankly it is going to take me a while to get used to it because we look UNCANNILY alike. it’s like looking through a mirror to an alternate universe where I have stubble and worse hair
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my mum, when I was a teenager: “you know, I’ve got nothing against the gays but I’d be devastated if your brother was one”
my mum now, to her openly pansexual son, whom she is deliberately introducing to our hairdresser: “if you start dating him I bet he’d do our hair for cheap! and he’s such a nice man!”
she’s come a long way
@astronomerritt My mum as well.
When I was a kid she refused to let me watch Mr Rogers because she thought he was gay. She is only concerned about such things now as she's afraid she'll say "the wrong thing" and hurt someone's feelings (usually wrt gender identity). She's never deliberately offensive, in any case.
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my mum, when I was a teenager: “you know, I’ve got nothing against the gays but I’d be devastated if your brother was one”
my mum now, to her openly pansexual son, whom she is deliberately introducing to our hairdresser: “if you start dating him I bet he’d do our hair for cheap! and he’s such a nice man!”
she’s come a long way
@astronomerritt I've heard so many beautiful stories like this.
A grad school friend from Pakistan was terrified of coming out to his dad, but he went back home and did it. It didn't go super well at first.
Eventually, they were a gay/straight alliance meeting in Pakistan, and a girl there talked about being disowned by her parents.
My friend's dad said, "I'll be your dad now."
Don't know about you, but I tear up thinking about it.
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@astronomerritt My mum as well.
When I was a kid she refused to let me watch Mr Rogers because she thought he was gay. She is only concerned about such things now as she's afraid she'll say "the wrong thing" and hurt someone's feelings (usually wrt gender identity). She's never deliberately offensive, in any case.
@roknrol Yeah, my mum worries about exactly the same thing. She does say offensive things sometimes but it’s only out of genuine ignorance that they’re offensive.
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my brother shaved his beard off and frankly it is going to take me a while to get used to it because we look UNCANNILY alike. it’s like looking through a mirror to an alternate universe where I have stubble and worse hair
nice to have a reminder that I only look my age due to the Tired Millennial Visage, when I slap some tinted moisturiser on to cover the uneven skin tone caused by decades of stress and dissociation total strangers apparently think I’m 25
to be fair they were slightly drunk strangers
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@astronomerritt I've heard so many beautiful stories like this.
A grad school friend from Pakistan was terrified of coming out to his dad, but he went back home and did it. It didn't go super well at first.
Eventually, they were a gay/straight alliance meeting in Pakistan, and a girl there talked about being disowned by her parents.
My friend's dad said, "I'll be your dad now."
Don't know about you, but I tear up thinking about it.
@OrionKidder That is a BEAUTIFUL story. Thank you for sharing it!
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nice to have a reminder that I only look my age due to the Tired Millennial Visage, when I slap some tinted moisturiser on to cover the uneven skin tone caused by decades of stress and dissociation total strangers apparently think I’m 25
to be fair they were slightly drunk strangers
(apparently “how am I supposed to know who Zara Larsson is, I’m nearly forty” was a shocking statement)
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(apparently “how am I supposed to know who Zara Larsson is, I’m nearly forty” was a shocking statement)
@astronomerritt I barely know who Zara Larsson is and I'm 27
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(apparently “how am I supposed to know who Zara Larsson is, I’m nearly forty” was a shocking statement)
anyway sorry for the spam, I had really bad signal in the pub so I was saving all those toots up
it was a fun night even if my brother’s uncannily smooth face will haunt my dreams! my dad had a moment of uncharacteristic sentimentality and said “I don’t need any of you to buy me things for my birthday, it’s just nice to have you all here”
which we promptly ruined by all four of us yelling variations of “we weren’t gonna fucking buy you anything anyway”
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@astronomerritt I barely know who Zara Larsson is and I'm 27
@freya tbf I vaguely know that she is a singer who exists but I couldn’t recognise her by sight or sound
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@astronomerritt I barely know who Zara Larsson is and I'm 27
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@bachimusprime @astronomerritt ahahahaha
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(apparently “how am I supposed to know who Zara Larsson is, I’m nearly forty” was a shocking statement)
@astronomerritt Oh, I know her! And I’m over forty!
Today I listened to Apple Music‘s „Top 100 Germany“ because I wanted to see what the kids are up today…
And there she was. Aaaand…. honestly all I can tell you about her is that on this playlist she came right after Michael Jackson – Billie Jean. And she did sing. Something.
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my mum, when I was a teenager: “you know, I’ve got nothing against the gays but I’d be devastated if your brother was one”
my mum now, to her openly pansexual son, whom she is deliberately introducing to our hairdresser: “if you start dating him I bet he’d do our hair for cheap! and he’s such a nice man!”
she’s come a long way
I just have these in me hed now re your mom
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