I can’t for the life of me figure out why this comment was downvoted. I’m straight but I didn’t like reading the chapter either just because homophobia makes me so angry. I was in Korea for a semester and I remember getting pretty irritated every time a conversation topic involved LGBT+ people because there would invariably be a homophobic comment thrown in SOMEWHERE (transphobia isn’t as common or intense in the East as in the West because of the difference in philosophical/religious backgrounds). It was almost (key word almost) kind of innocent though, like they didn’t have any idea how harmful their comments were.
Tangent aside, I am so sorry you had to experience that, and I hope your mom comes to accept it.
thank you for this reply. that was really nice of you to say!
Same. It happened to me, to my brother and to a lot of lgbt people. It's pretty common. They can't fully accept this part of us so they try to ignore and negate it. My mother even went all the way and said it's a phase (I'm 27 lmao).
oh god. that last chapter was really fucking awful to read through for personal reasons. when i came out to my mom about liking girls she pretty much said the same thing. "are you sure you arent mistaken?" like you expect support from your family but sometimes theyre in denial and prefer to pretend to ignore that part of you. i might have even preferred it if she had just straight up said she hated that part of me instead since at least on some level she would have been accepting it. anyway i really feel for the uncle.