In the shower just now, randomly remembering something from years ago...
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In the shower just now, randomly remembering something from years ago...
Friend of my now deceased uncle, getting into his 60s and on and off battling medical issues, sitting on our couch, having a conversation about his family, burst into tears. This is one of those macho dudes who never wants to cry, but he had seen his daughter in town, and had the distraught moment where he wanted to say something to her, but she had a restraining order against him.
After his divorce with her mother, she'd come out as a lesbian, and he had thoroughly rejected her for it. He had from that moment forward devoted his entire relationship with her to trying to convert her back to a straight person, and it ended up costing him the relationship.
"The gays took my daughter from me."
So here he is, at the end of his life, and he hasn't had a decent conversation with his daughter since she was young, because #homophobia was more important to him.
(cntd)
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Raccoon at TechHub :mastodon:replied to Raccoon at TechHub :mastodon: last edited by
Queerphobes want to talk all day about how queer people report being sad or scared or feeling isolated all the time, but they never want to talk about the fact that the reason they give for this is almost universally that queerphobes are constantly and aggressively coming after us. What they especially don't talk about though is the fact that the parents they convince to reject their queer kids are even more miserable.
This is how #homophobia / #queerphobia / #transphobia, possibly more than other bigotries in general, do massive amounts of harm not only to the groups they are against, but to the people who are convinced to embrace them. They literally pushed away their own children, just so they could be queerphobes, throwing away what should be a cherished part of their lives.
And the anti-queer movement doesn't care. These people are just fodder for the greater cause.
Queerphobia is a parasite, of the most evolutionarily maladaptive variety: it makes them eat their own young.
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Josh Riversreplied to Raccoon at TechHub :mastodon: last edited by
@Raccoon I’m constantly amazed at how much human-to-human abuse is proclaimed to be for your/their own good.
The only unsolicited help we need from strangers is food, shelter, safety from physical injury, and generalized acceptance. The class of restraints we put on other individuals probably isn’t a much bigger set. Everybody is trying. Just be nice to them.