I don't know if this is a place to rant, but I have nowhere else to rant about this so if you don't want negativity today just skip this.
Yesterday a friend of my boss was visiting and talking to me. It started out innocuous where she talked about her son being too thin (BMI 19 from the measurements she gave me, which is indeed thin, but not sickly so) and smoking a lot. And then it started with her insinuating that the reason he didn't eat much was to "keep things clean, he's gay after all". I tried to tell her that that's a misconception, myth and stereoype, but I'm not sure she believed me.
Then she went on about how she's "against it all", because after all "they don't grow old happy". And then she talked about Westerwelle and some musician. (It's now occuring to me that maybe she was insinuating Westerwelle got leukemia from being gay.) I tried to tell her that very public gay celebrities tend to get dozens of death threats every single day, on top of the hundreds of regular insults and that you can find plenty of happy old gay men when you look at g-list celebrities. (I didn't have the guts to tell her that her being an ignorant bigot probably isn't making her son happy.)
There is so much bullshit inside people that I rarely hear, because they only speak it out loud when talking to or about lgbt+ or poly people. I wish there were a way to erase complete nonsense from people's brains.
Yesterday a friend of my boss was visiting and talking to me. It started out innocuous where she talked about her son being too thin (BMI 19 from the measurements she gave me, which is indeed thin, but not sickly so) and smoking a lot. And then it started with her insinuating that the reason he didn't eat much was to "keep things clean, he's gay after all". I tried to tell her that that's a misconception, myth and stereoype, but I'm not sure she believed me.
Then she went on about how she's "against it all", because after all "they don't grow old happy". And then she talked about Westerwelle and some musician. (It's now occuring to me that maybe she was insinuating Westerwelle got leukemia from being gay.) I tried to tell her that very public gay celebrities tend to get dozens of death threats every single day, on top of the hundreds of regular insults and that you can find plenty of happy old gay men when you look at g-list celebrities. (I didn't have the guts to tell her that her being an ignorant bigot probably isn't making her son happy.)
There is so much bullshit inside people that I rarely hear, because they only speak it out loud when talking to or about lgbt+ or poly people. I wish there were a way to erase complete nonsense from people's brains.
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