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Yo.

@The Age of 22

I think it's especially difficult for her because she's spent all those years confident in her heterosexuality; it's a shock to suddenly question it.

Hi, Nova~ -Marshmallows-

People still use AIM?

I know it was a shock for me, because I spent a major part of my life hating homosexuality.

In fact for those first few years when I started questioning, I hated myself.

I remember I used to hate gay people.

But then suddenly, I became politically aware around about the age of 14. And I managed to do lots of research on lots of things related to politics, and came to the conclusion that homosexuality is not a bad thing, and I'd be glad to have LGBT friends.

So yeah. I educated myself.

I, to be honest never hated Gay people. I only realised I was gay recently, but I was always pretty anti homophobe.

To be fair i don't think i even thought about other people at all until i was like 12. That's when i made my first real friends.

I'm not sure I can comprehend how an adolescent can hate homosexuals. Where would that emotional responce even come from?

They're told it's bad and so they come to think it's bad.

Logic!

Meanwhile, I had a misogynistic side when I was a kid, mostly in the form of "Ugh this show/commerical is girly, that makes it terrible". I'm mostly sad that this thought process ended up with me never watching Powerpuff Girls even though I had the opportunity to do so back then.

edited 18th Sep '14 12:05:00 PM by CapedLuigisYoshi

Yeah, pretty much. Kids will believe anything their parents tell them, and if their parents are raging homophobes, then chances are the kids are gonna grow up believing that gays are evil and should all go to hell.

I never watched Powerpuff Girls either, not because it was girly, but because I didn't have cable as a kid. So yeah, I missed out on a lot of really good shows.

edited 18th Sep '14 12:07:02 PM by bRaHiAn1

I don't think I ever hated the people, but I certainly thought homosexuality wasn't a thing they should be doing and opposed marriage.

Ironically, when I was a kid I always wanted to be a girl.

I didn't realise that I already was one.

-shrugs- For me, it was because I'd never seen gay people, or seen a gay couple before. I'd only been exposed to heterosexual couples, and heterosexual pairings, and I went to a boys' school. My mother is very anti-gay, and my father is pro-gay, but I only ever heard it from my mother.

Actually I've been questioning my gender identity on and off since I was about 14.

I don't think I was ever accused of being gay at school.

Huh.

That's interesting.

In my adolescence I think I was pretty against being seen as gay, if only because it was an accusation already hurled at me by unpleasant people. Though I don't think even then I was ever personally against them.

I dunno. I had pretty openly liberal parents. And I mean, one of my aunts lived with another woman for nine years, so they kinda had time to get used to the idea before I was mentally aware enough to listen to them.

Keggydad!

How is my favourite Canadad?

He is pretty alright. Just trying to figure out what I'm supposed to be 'doing' at work today.

How is Euroson?

In my case it was a rather toxic priest, albeit one whose services I stopped attending the first moment I could, because I knew then I much preferred the company of other girls and much preferred the idea of dating them. Part of this did come from the early idea I had which can be summed up as Rousseau Was Right, but a person free of those influences which make them evil can be quite a good person easily.

edited 18th Sep '14 12:26:46 PM by RatherRandomRachel

@ Keggydad. You should do what my (real-world) dad does. Order Chinese food and eat it with his co-workers.

Ooh. That does sounds like a neat idea... maybe tomorrow when I have money again.

Break out a game of Apples to Apples with the Chinese food.

I am 100% serious. It will be the bomb.

And yes, I just used that expression. In the 2010s. What of it.

edited 19th Sep '14 1:23:09 AM by JHM

Maaaaaaan, that sounds super great. Maybe Cards against Humanity. It's a pretty bleak-humoured group. We probably won't even have any real work tomorrow unless something big comes up(Client is in the middle of a big event I can't talk about for legal reasons right now, so there's a lot of really short, but really important tests to do that come up pretty much as the client gets the stuff we're supposed to test running, so how much work we have to do is pretty touch-and-go)

edited 19th Sep '14 11:32:41 PM by Completion

you fool

always take care of that business before hitting the bars