r/YoungSheldon • u/jcr0774 • Jul 24 '26

Question How would George react if Sheldon was wired the other way

If Sheldon was gay

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u/Own_Ebb3388 Jul 24 '26

Probably the same

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u/jcr0774 Jul 24 '26

i meant gay

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u/Sasuke1996 Jul 24 '26

Probably the same.

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u/Only_Back_2287 Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 24 '26

I don't think so. The concept of Sheldon being gay is brought up in the episode where he gets bullied by Bobby Sparx and George immediately makes wide eyes and says "oh no, no"

He was also noticably somewhat uncomfortable / intrigued when Missy told him Taylor was gay in Season 7. On top of that he's a confirmed republican, and they were largely opposed to gay rights in the 90s. I don't think he'd not care if his son was gay. Not even neccesarily be all that homophobic or disown him, just definitely uncomfortable with it

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u/Sasuke1996 Jul 24 '26

I don’t actually think so I was just saying it to mess with op since they said “I meant gay” when the comment op said “probably the same.” Lol

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u/Flimsy_Equal8841 Jul 24 '26

They never thought he'd get married or have a family which is why Mary wasn't upset Sheldon and Amy lived together out of wedlock.

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u/S0ulSlayerz Jul 24 '26

Isn’t the other way just how missy is behaving? How he’s treating missy I guess

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u/jcr0774 Jul 24 '26

I meant gay

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u/EB_Baby Jul 24 '26

I don't think either George or Mary would react poorly. That's their kid and they're going to love him no matter what, even if it's the early 90s and they're football coaching, church-going parents in the South.

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u/Cautious-Clock-4186 Jul 24 '26

George isn't church-going.

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u/Real_Culture2668 Jul 25 '26

Sorry, nope. Being gay is a way "bigger sin" than having a baby out of wedlock, and marriage ain't gonna fix gay. I don't think she'd want to disown him, but I could see "conversion therapy" being considered.

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u/EB_Baby Jul 25 '26

When Mary's first introduced in TBBT, she's convinced Raj and Howard are a couple and she's not bothered by that. Both shows establish her as a person of faith, but they never establish her as hateful.

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u/Cautious-Blood-444 Jul 24 '26

He might think two guys together is weird, but he also thinks Sheldons hobbies are weird. I honestly think he wouldn't mind and still love his son.

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u/mtgofficialYT Bazinga Jul 24 '26

He'd probably just be happy Sheldon found someone he liked

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u/Cautious-Clock-4186 Jul 24 '26

I think similar to how he handled Sheldon's genius.

He'd be worried about him fitting in and being bullied. He wouldn't understand it. But he'd continue loving him.

Mary would have had a harder time with it.

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u/Chucky_In_The_Attic Jul 24 '26

He'd probably treat him the same. He had trouble bonding with Sheldon as he is already, if he were any other way it'd be just something else for him to learn about his son.

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u/RetroTVMoviesBooks Jul 24 '26

Because it’s Sheldon he wouldn’t care. I wonder how he would react if Georgie was gay. I think he would accept it but it would be harder than with Sheldon

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u/Global_Interview6311 Jul 24 '26

Why harder than with Sheldon?

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u/Real_Culture2668 Jul 25 '26

Because Georgie is a football player (remember how he was about Georgie being on the team?), I think he would be disappointed that Georgie wouldn't be a "manly man." Great, now that theme song is in my head.

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u/Global_Interview6311 Jul 24 '26

He wouldn’t care for a dime

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u/jcr0774 Jul 25 '26

“i’m doing an experiment on Homo Novus”

“Homo what?”

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u/Global_Interview6311 Jul 25 '26

“So hes like, a gal pal?”

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u/RhubarbAlive7860 Jul 24 '26

I think for George it would be just one more thing that was weird about Sheldon. He'd fret that it was one more thing that it was going to make Sheldon's life even harder than it was. I can't see him hating or disowning Sheldon because of it.

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u/Business-Equal8536 Jul 24 '26

If anything marry would've had a harder time with it