Lol, nice!!! (email my mom sent)

Mom forwarded this email to me a few days ago (just read it now):


"I have received an e mail from Actionalert a christian orginization asking us to promote marriage of a Man and a Woman by women wearing pink and men wearing blue on Valentines Day. God's Plan is one man and one woman be united in marriage. NOT ... 2 MEN OR 2 WOMEN. Anyway rather than sending a forward I am just putting the message out there for any who wants to participate."


In my mother's defense, she doesn't know I like girls. And I'm never getting married, to boy or girl.
Still, I HATED reading this message.
There is so much hate and discrimination in that statement.
Did she actually think I would participate in such blatant homophobia???!! If two people want to get married (of any sex) I'm not going to stop them.
Blegh, she sends the most retarded things sometimes. Sometimes I'll just delete them, without even reading. But usually I read. (and then of course, delete )

 

I guess if she would participate, she might think you would.

 

I would have worn a pink and blue outfit.

 

Oh man thats terrible.. i wouldn't be able to look up to my parents.. or have any respect for them if they followed something like that.

 

Come to think of it, I think she did actually wear pink on V day. And I thought she was just being festive! And Cate, she knows how I feel on these issues (on a lot of issues), just not about my sexuality.
I think she's just naive, lol. She thinks I may say I'm all for gays but I must be fucked up in my head and if she keeps sending these emails and stuff maybe I'll change my mind.

 

My mother's the same way.

She told me last night that she was so glad that I turned out straight because she doesn't agree with the "gay thing"

She also says very vulgar things about homosexuals and their way of life that I don't think would be appropriate for a public forum...

 

Oh, and Edy? I don't....... respect them that is. I mean, I guess I do to a point because they're old and life experienced (blah blah blah), but our thought processes are completely different.
We have completely different views on moral issues. I mean, they're baptists, and they wanted to raise me to be (obviously it didn't work).

We get along though.

 

Yeah my mom is really old fashioned in the sense of men with men and women with women. She doesn't grasp how openly accepted it is now...she still thinks it's taboo.

 

Good one! Haha, awesome.

 

I think I would be totally dfferent if that were my parents. Hell, my fabulous grandma came over (she is like 80 now), and we were discussing how the best thing is having a good gay friend. :tongue: But she is really quite fabulous. Like a former beauty queen, vodka on the rocks, high society, gambler sort.

 

My parents are more.... uninformed. They aren't usually hateful when they talk about gay people - I actually think they'd rather not talk about it unless they have to. They're so prudish, lol....
My mom isn't usually mean in what she says, she just hardly has anything to back it up. She might say stuff like:
"Well, being gay is wrong because god says it's wrong." "It's just unnatural!" "God didn't make Adam and Steve." "That to me is just disgusting."

 

We were having dinner with some friends from Ireland at my mother's home when the subject of my brother (who is openly gay) came up. My mother said something like "...well you know he's that way..." and I saw the look in my friends' eyes so I spoke up quickly and said, "You mean... he's Protestant???"

Everyone but my mother thought it was hilarious.

 

Ur granny sounds kinda cool.

My sis is sort of like the fag hag to her gay friends. She's awesome.

Yeah, my parents are.... stupid, and grasping onto the only thing they can, I guess.
I'm not like them though.

I'm quite jealous of my friends who grew up in normal families. Their childhood's were normal. I had to pack a lot of growing up into just a few years and relearn a lot of things when I was a teen. They really tried to brainwash us.
It is fucked up how my parents raised the 5 of us.
But they were brainwashed themselves, so how can they know any better? They were just doing the best they knew how at the time (which was really shitty). We've all changed some in ten years. They still feel the same about god, but they're not trying to control my life with it.

Ehh, it's hard to hate your parents all the time when they let you live at home for free and basically leave you alone. I try to keep the peace and just focus on the present. Things are pretty good over here at present. I just have to ignore things like that retarded msg.

 

You know that you are your own person, and that can thrive if you want it to, in the most heinous of positions we choose for our selves in this life. It was difficult for you then, maybe even now and later too, but you became strong and are able to read between the lines because of it.

 

Haha! Sounds exactly like something my mom would say.

 

Respond, 'a hole is a hole.'

Enjoy their response.

 

*chokes* ahahahahaa

You never cease. xoxo

 

Thank you, Cate. Nice post.

I do know who I am, and that it is nothing like my parents (ok, well, I do sort of look like them, and I do get the passive aggressive thingy from my dad and the anxiety from my mom).
But on the important stuff we're completely different.

I just felt like chatting. (It's not a big deal) Thanks you guys for replies.

 

I just stabbed my eye! AHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! (I was rubbing my eye and when I read that it made me laugh and I forgot about my fingernail and...jab) haha