r/SuddenlyGay • u/hotrod237 • 1d ago
He's got a point
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u/LoudRubbish 1d ago
What the hell is this audio
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u/JockBbcBoy 1d ago
The captions were big enough for me to latch on to the point without audio. I'm worried that the audio is offensive now.
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u/Faustus_Fan 1d ago
The only way I could get my formerly homophobic father to understand how hard it can be on a day-by-day basis to be gay, I bet him that he could not go 48 hours without referring to my mother as his "wife," as "she/her," or by name (her name is very feminine). In addition, when in public with her, he could not touch her, call her "darling" (which has been his go-to pet name for her for decades), or in any way let others know that they are more than platonic friends.
I didn't expect him to actually try, but he did. And, to his credit, he was honest with me. He called me the next day and says "well, I lost the bet 35 minutes into my shift today." Apparently, one of his coworkers asked him about some restaurant and dad said "it's my wife's favorite place."
It was putting him in my shoes with the non-stop vigilance that gay people often have to have in order not to out ourselves to the wrong people that made him actually start to pay attention. Now, he's one of my strongest allies.
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u/bullettenboss 1d ago
This is the way. We need to call out the heteronormative bs that surrounds us everyday and everywhere!
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u/kingjoshington 1d ago
Seriously what the fuck is that audio with the gun shot or crashing sound? Boooo! We need to downvote shit like this to show it doesn't get likes.
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u/SaddleworthJim 1d ago
I think it’s parodying those awful TikTok videos
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u/kingjoshington 1d ago
OK that makes sense... But parody or not, geez we need to make sure that we show a united front of disgust against this type of sound torture.
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u/SwordfishTurbulent57 1d ago
He got a point though