My advice is if it really stresses you out, you shouldn't go anymore.
However, I would also say that you could also change their minds if you do keep going. If they continue to believe that hateful crap, that may spread. I don't know, you know your family better than I do but I say keep going and try to change their minds. Even just by being there maybe. It's up to you.
Awww... I'm sorry for that Gato... question: are you out to your cousins? I'm asking because perspectives of homophobes usually change when someone close to them is an LGBT+ person. Not always, but usually. If you are, and they said those things to you, then they're grassholes.
Wow, that really sucks to hear, sorry you had to deal with such rubbish. Try not to let it get you down. Easier said than done I'm sure, but such gross hate is not worth getting upset over it. Focus on how awesome GayGAF is and revel in their being wrong.
Wow, that really sucks to hear, sorry you had to deal with such rubbish. Try not to let it get you down. Easier said than done I'm sure, but such gross hate is not worth getting upset over it. Focus on how awesome GayGAF is and revel in their being wrong.
Yeah, I need to focus on the good things more. Those comments came just so out of left field, so suddenly. And at a bad time too since it's Christmas and I'm always kinda moody on Christmas.
I'm on day six of a nine day stretch at work; gotta be up at 6 on Christmas morning to head out for a shift of baking. Next time y'all have bread at a restaurant, I hope you appreciate the work that went into it. ;0
I'm on day six of a nine day stretch at work; gotta be up at 6 on Christmas morning to head out for a shift of baking. Next time y'all have bread at a restaurant, I hope you appreciate the work that went into it. ;0
Not Christian. We go to church for grandma. I spent the whole time meditating instead of singing hymns. Basically just radiating loving-friendliness, which made it actually kind of fun in a godless sort of way. Like I got a weird added vibe from doing spiritual practice in a room with a bunch of other people even though we believe and do completely different things. The only time in my life that church was kind of fun.
This is probably the least helpful answer possible, but I've never been able to neatly adopt a racial identity - and while I know that sounds incredibly like an oblivious white asshole's justification for wearing a Dawkins-esque We Are All Africans shirt, in my case I legitimately seem to find it difficult. My family are mostly Greek Orthodox from Jerusalem who fall on both sides of the Israeli / Palestinian identification debate. There's not much of a stereotype or common experience to latch onto in that case - especially in Australia, it's largely subsumed into the more general Greek immigrant identity, but that doesn't fully encompass the entirety of our culture. I've generally not had to consider it all that much, but recently its incompatibility with the binary and largely US-centric conception of 'people of colour' has frustrated me a little - the Greek aspect is usually synonymous with 'white', which may not fully apply; while the entire Israeli and Palestinian cultural diaspora is simplified to be a purely Jewish or Muslim experience, something that doesn't apply in this case either. The massive importance placed upon skin colour in the American conception of social justice also makes it harder to assert any kind of identity within its parameters - either I'm a white lapsed Christian grasping at vaguely European straws to seem exotic; or a 'person of colour' consisting of some nebulous combination of Islam and Judaism with no distinct cultural identity.
Nice knowing you, I guess. It's probably too late now, but apparently putting rosemary and malabathrum under your tongue while you sleep dulls the pain of your soul shattering and being consumed.
I wouldn't have wanted to be alone all day, but I can definitely sympathise to a lesser extent. The judgment of family is pretty exhausting - thankfully most of it's over by now.
There's nothing there that Vagrant Story didn't do much better.
The world would have served its purpose if we ever got a proper remake which fully realised the promise of Yoshida's art - if they could make Ashley look decently cute on the PS1, SE's current level of visual accomplishment could create a masterpiece.
Merry Christmas (or happy family holiday) to all of the LGBTQIA thread! I put on my very special teenage mutant ninja turtles christmas sweater for the occasion.
Thanks Mr Cat :3 I'm sure I would have been fine anyway (or at least I hope so) but it was a nice ending to an awkward night.
hahaha sorry for my post, my finger has that weird tendency to rip ever so slightly and reach the "caps lock" touch when I'm drunk. Other than that I gotta say that everything was really blurry that night.
Which languages will it be translated to, just English? That'd be fine with me too. But I would really like to see your book here in my local Thalia. I want to tell everyone that I know the author, haha.
And a good laugh is as good as a good advice, it's better than nothing.
I think english would be the main translated language, indeed! Would be awesome if you could find it in a store around where you live, it's like a little part of me that would always be near you (that actually reads as something hella creepy, but it sounded cute in my head hahaha)