• PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca
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    8 个月前

    My moms a boomer and this has been her go-to.

    “Being gay wasn’t a thing when I was younger. No one was gay! Or trans! It’s just a trend now because people don’t discipline their kids anymore!”

    Yes mom because they were afraid of people like you.

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      Why did they feel the ‘need’ to enact anti-sodomy laws which sometimes even specifically mentioned same-sex relationships if there were no gay people?

      My mom has moved onto the Bargaining phase from Denial, pivoting to saying, “well sure there were always a few, but most of them now are doing it because it’s popular, and aren’t ‘real’ gay people”.

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        Lmaooo, “popular”. I find it so funny when people unironically think that

        Like, yeah, I’m just gonna go date and sleep with a person I’m not attracted to because it’s “popular”, lol

        Though the fucked up thing is that, this is something that has happened with gay people trying to be straight

        • When I was in middle school, I was sorta wondering if guys just pretended sexual attraction was a thing because it was expected of them.

          Then I realized that such seemed like a ridiculous theory (although I still assumed it was exaggerated for social reasons and didn’t really think sexual attracted was related to interest in sex for a long time after…).

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      Move out if you haven’t already, that way you can freely call her out on her bullshit all you want without consequence.

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        8 个月前

        Calling her out while moved out will still have consequence. My entire family thinks the same way or more extreme.

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      What kind of parental discipline keeps people from being gay?

      I don’t think there’s ever going to be an answer to that question that isn’t somehow abusive.

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      Your mom’s a dumbass, there’s no shortage of stories from ancient Rome and Greece of gay activity.

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    8 个月前

    Boomers aren’t exactly well known for understanding concepts like “survivorship bias”.

    Don’t you know? All of their friends survived covid!

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    Also, there’s probably a chunk of them who couldn’t identify as a particular brand of queer, because they didn’t even know it was an option. Ace and non-binary folks come to mind.

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    Idk, the number of 60-80 year olds on my gay fetish apps sliding into my DMs seem to contradict this “lack of boomer LBGTQ” idea.

  • i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    I knew a boomer that once gave my male friend some advice.

    “Never marry a lesbian. She might be able to force it for a while, but she will always eventually turn back.”

  • I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org
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    Dinosaurs weren’t discovered until the late 1800s. Dinosaur fossils obviously didn’t exist before then. All of the fossils being found in the 1900s was just a fad.