So Facebook is kind of a shitty way to find out that your father...

[lastparker]

mcctatas  (1000+ posts)        Thu Oct-16-08 08:09 PM
Original message
So Facebook is kind of a shitty way to find out that your father...
is into dudes. I would have preferred a nice dinner and a heart to heart chat! I mean the bisexual thing doesn't bother me, but I do feel a little pissy about missing a nice dinner out!

latebloomer  (1000+ posts)      Thu Oct-16-08 08:41 PM
Response to Original message
1. Wow, that must have been a shock!
 Or was it?

Are you close? Maybe you could talk to him about it.

Close?  All DUmmies are spawned from dysfunction.

mcctatas  (1000+ posts)        Thu Oct-16-08 08:44 PM
Response to Reply #1
3. We're not like father daughter close
 I'm not all that shocked, but c'mon, facebook? Really? 

Book Lover  (1000+ posts)      Fri Oct-17-08 03:31 AM
Response to Reply #3
30. Well, if you're nt all that close,
 why did you expect to be told this information? 

mcctatas  (1000+ posts)        Fri Oct-17-08 03:33 AM
Response to Reply #30
31. Not father daughter close...
 we are close, as in we discuss politics, authors, music, my love life, my kids, his wife...
he's just never been freaking ward cleaver is what I was getting at...

otherlander  (1000+ posts)        Thu Oct-16-08 09:45 PM
Response to Reply #7
10. I don't like this thread.
 It starts off with expecting people who aren't hetero to make a big deal out of it, some kind of formal announcement/coming out/discussion about it. I mean, I never did that. I never "came out". If it comes up in conversation, I'll acknowledge that gender makes no difference to me in terms of whether or not I find someone attractive, but I'm not going to make a big announcement out of it any more than I would make a big announcement out of being a vegetarian or being an atheist or being Ukrainian.

Then it continues with someone replying with "that must have been a shock!" I can see how someone killing a dog would be a shock. Or someone hating black people. Or someone cheating on you. But someone loving people? Eh, not so much.

And then, of course, the obligatory "ugh," an expression of disgust, followed by a hug, as if to comfort you from the horrible fact of a family member being... Other. ( )

Being bi really isn't that big of a deal. Well, it is a big deal in the sense that it involves love, which is one of the biggest deals there is. But that only makes it a big deal in the way that a man and a woman loving each other is also a big deal.

And BAM!  In walks the Liberal thought police.

Look, o-lander, bisexualtiy is NOT about loving, it is about sticking it into (or being stuck by) as many people as possible.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x8169241

[USA4ME]

otherlander

10. I don't like this thread.

It starts off with expecting people who aren't hetero to make a big deal out of it, some kind of formal announcement/coming out/discussion about it. I mean, I never did that. I never "came out". If it comes up in conversation, I'll acknowledge that gender makes no difference to me in terms of whether or not I find someone attractive, but I'm not going to make a big announcement out of it any more than I would make a big announcement out of being a vegetarian or being an atheist or being Ukrainian.

Then it continues with someone replying with "that must have been a shock!" I can see how someone killing a dog would be a shock. Or someone hating black people. Or someone cheating on you. But someone loving people? Eh, not so much.

And then, of course, the obligatory "ugh," an expression of disgust, followed by a hug, as if to comfort you from the horrible fact of a family member being... Other. ( )

I'm sure in your world, otherlander, that's how you'd like it to be.  But you see, in the world the rest of us live in, the one that's real, finding out your Dad likes dressing as Tinkerbelle might come as a shock, even to someone who's conscience is as seered as a DUmmie.

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[jukin]

The mostest bigerest defenders of the Constitution are at it again.

[Carl]

Yeah it is a shitty way to find out but what do you expect when you post at a site that believes to its core that we should have no values,absolutes or morals.

It is exactly what you should expect given what you believe.

[JohnnyReb]

All that gay, lezbo, bi, transgender crap is all lovey-dovey and normal.....until it comes home to you, huh?

[Airwolf]

What happened to all that "tolerance" they talk about?