• chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I showed my mom Star Trek Discovery because we used to watch TNG when I was a kid. There is a scene where Stamets and his partner are in the bathroom brushing their teeth and talking. It takes a moment, but my mom catches on, and she yells, “Why are they in my Star Trek?” And then grabs her keys and gets into her car and drives off.

    I’m not going to be sad when she dies.

    • hOrni@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Ya know, Star Trek, the famously conservative show which showed the first interracial kiss on TV in the 60ties.

    • Stamets@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
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      1 month ago

      She sounds like a cunt. “My” Star Trek is always inclusive like from the start. Dunno what she was watching.

      • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 month ago

        You nailed it. My first girlfriend was black. My mom freaked out because she thought I was going to give her “mixed” grandbabies. I was 10. I’ve tried over the years, and I’ve seen improvement, but she’s 70 this year and I’m running out of effort. She’s going to die miserable and hateful and the world will be better when she’s gone.

        • QualifiedKitten@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 month ago

          I think it was around the time of the Lord of the Rings movies, and my grandma had a similar freak out when I mentioned my crush on Elijah Wood. She said, “I don’t want any black grandbabies!” She just assumed he was black and that her young grandchild somehow had any chance of making babies with a much older movie star. Joke’s on her though, I’m not giving her any grandbabies.

        • HappycamperNZ@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 month ago

          Look, I respect she’s your mum but what the fuck.

          Im Maori, wife white AF - gets sunburn walking infront of a bright TV level white. If anyone has a problem with our 3 “mixed” kids in front of her, let’s just say she will hold nothing back.

        • Stamets@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
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          1 month ago

          Mixed babies… Like who the fuck cares? God I hate it so much because it’s just DUMB. Like morally and ethically horrible too obviously but it just doesn’t logically make sense either. A stagnant gene pool isn’t helping anyone Mildred.

          I’m sorry you had to deal with that

          • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            1 month ago

            It’s that good ol’ southern baptist love, you know.

            As a white cis male I’ve had it and will continue to have it much easier than a lot of other people, just by virtue of genetics. I don’t see it as something I’ve had to deal with, more something that has shown be how to be better than I could have been.

        • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 month ago

          That’s rough fam, I’m sorry it’s like that for you.

          I lost my mom a few years back, she wasn’t hateful, just an alcoholic… so I understand the sentiment. My life and my sister’s both got a lot easier in a lot of ways. Which ofc I still feel kinda guilty over.

          I dunno what I’m saying other than I sympathize 💜

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 month ago

          I sort of have the opposite issue. My mother, who has always been very welcoming to my gay friends and my brother’s gay friends (the best men at our weddings were both gay and she seemed to be cool with them the entire time) has given me little subtle signals over the years that she doesn’t like it that my daughter is queer.

          And recently she told me that if my daughter just goes into the closet she’s never been in and “obeys the rules” she will be fine. That was before the election. Today she found out that we’re taking advantage of my dual citizenship and emigrating to the UK. She’s really pissed off about it. She’s said some incredibly stupid and offensive things in the emails we had back and forth, not just about living in the UK, but about the U.S.:

          I know several lesbians, including [HOUSEMATE’S DAUGHTER]. None are thinking of moving out of the US at this point. We are having Thanksgiving here with some of [HOUSEMATE’S DAUGHTER]'s gay and lesbian friends. [MY DAUGHTER] is welcome to come. They are all successful people with good jobs and doing well. None are scared of Trump because of their sexual orientation. (They may well be scared for other reasons.)

          I think it is too early to emigrate before seeing what will happen. By the time anyone gets around to going after gay people, after the 11 million migrants, [MY DAUGHTER] will probably be 18.

          Transgender minors are in trouble. But before gay people are, watch for laws repealing gay marriage. That’s when to get scared, maybe. But herding millions into conversion therapy would be quite a job.

          This was my favorite part though:

          Also, Europe and the UK are having problems with antisemitism (not to mention anti-gay bias.). How will you prepare [MY DAUGHTER] for that? And yourself? And what if England turns fascist, like other European countries?

          Like… mom, we’ve been dealing with antisemitism here in Indiana my whole fucking life. The temple got firebombed when I was a kid, remember? Remember Charlottesville and the “Jews will not replace us” chants? All the times antisemitic literature got distributed around town and no one got caught doing it? Fuck, you remember Benjamin Smith who came into town looking for Jews but settled for a poor Korean student?

          And what if England turns fascist? Where do you think you’re living? What do you think just happened?

          • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            1 month ago

            I’ve gotta say, as a queer person one of the most valuable lessons I’ve learned was actually from the Jewish community: have a plan to leave before you think you need it. You don’t need to run immediately, but make it so you can when you do need to. Two years ago when I saw the Nazis marching more and more I got a passport just in case and packed a few days of non perishable food in a backpack, it’s not much and the passport has come in handy a few times between having my drivers license stolen and having a surprise international business trip. And the food is a good idea in case of natural disaster. The biggest thing is you don’t want to be waiting in a long line regretting not having done something with little opportunity cost sooner.

      • bitchkat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Every series has something like that. Riker fucked everything, Crusher was willing to fuck the symbiote after he got a new female host, etc.

    • Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 month ago

      How can anyone not love stamets?? I didn’t really like any of the characters in discovery, except Stamets and Hugh.

  • Hossenfeffer@feddit.ukEnglish
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    1 month ago

    My mother once answered the door to some Jehovah’s Witnesses on her knees and brandishing a huge pair of upholstery scissors (she was trimming a bit of carpet).

    Their faith was clearly tested and I can only assume they failed the test since they hummed and hawwed and said something about coming back later but never did.

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 month ago

    The past couple years alone I have had to deal with Mormon missionaries coming in my neighborhood and I absolutely feel uncomfortable in a way. Every time I see them anymore I make sure to do everything in my power to avoid them. Even though I’m a straight white male, I’m not interested in what you’re trying to sell nor do I wanna be rude and tell them off because I just had to be raised “right”.

    Though I think the occurrences might be going down here due to an increase in Middle Easterners and such in the apartment complex I live in, so I’m absolutely glad they’re here (even if it’s for a selfish reason).

  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Last time these guys knocked n my door we had a threesome after I made sure they were legal age.

    The religiously repressed are kinky as fuck.

  • TachyonTele@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Remember when all the gays got together into giant armies and marched and pillaged and murdered thier way to the Gayland multiple times?