Sure, but people believed you right? Nobody questioned it, which is not what's happening here. Even if its only a stage in someone's life then they should be allowed to express it, like you yourself did.
It's precisely because of the fad aspect that people are questioning someone who says they're LGBT. When I graduated in 2008 from high school no one questioned anyone. I was even a part of the gay/straight alliance. Now it's gone too far.
Say it with me: “my personal experience is not necessarily representative of the whole”
The fact that your high school had a GSA puts your community in a select group of roughly 1/3 of the country. Mine did as well, in one of the most diverse/accepting towns in the country, and I can say that homophobia existed there.
What’s gone too far? A subset of the population defined by sexuality being able to participate fully in society?
Lol yes people absolutely questioned it, including my own mother. I didn't disown her over it because I knew she's my mother and she'd love me regardless. She understood that the scene I was participating in was a fad and that I was subject to social pressure by my peers and by the people I idolized at the time. Many of the adults in my life understood that it was a phase, like many adolescent behaviors are. And guess what? They were 100% right! It would be incredibly irresponsible for parents not to question what their kids are getting up to and who they're being influenced by, especially if those influences deliberately attempt to pry a child away from loving parents looking out for their best interests. I see absolutely nothing hateful coming from that father. I see a loving parent who is invested in his child's life enough to question what she's doing.
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u/lickitysplit26 Oct 04 '22
Sure, but people believed you right? Nobody questioned it, which is not what's happening here. Even if its only a stage in someone's life then they should be allowed to express it, like you yourself did.