Things You Think Are Confessions But Are Actually Banal And No One Gives A Fuck

[Courtney]

This just made me tear up and I had to take a bunch of deep breaths to stop myself from actually crying.



(Telephone commercials make me cry too, sometimes.)

[locachica73]

I got teary eyed as well. I can only imagine how relieved and happy the son must of been.

[algunz]

Ron posted this earlier. I so want to give this Dad a hug. He is what all parents should be in this scenario.

[Hannahrain]

I mostly kept my cool reading that note but the perfectly-timed combination of Morton Feldman and Shoes on the Danube Promenade brought me to full-on bitch tears yesterday.

[ThatGirl]

I have a very close male friend who believes his son may be gay. From the time he was 7 or 8 he's exhibited several signs, but in asking him he's denied it. He's 11 now, not sure how it will turn out in the end but he has so much support and love and good friends, I just hope if he is he's not afraid to come out.

[RotationSlimWang]

It's a wonderful, wonderful note. But does anyone else find the "we knew you were gay at six" comment just a little weird?

[algunz]

Thatgirl, Let's hope they don't give him some weird pressure to be gay when he's not. Sometimes people are just different.

[canexplain]

I have a very close male friend who believes his son may be gay. From the time he was 7 or 8 he's exhibited several signs, but in asking him he's denied it. He's 11 now, not sure how it will turn out in the end but he has so much support and love and good friends, I just hope if he is he's not afraid to come out.

Vets from the board know my West Point story: She's a grad, decorated 2x's Iraq, Airborne, Russian specialist, she is not STRAIGHT, oh no, now I feel less safe. Grrrr people sometimes. cr****

[Somewhat Damaged]

It's a wonderful, wonderful note. But does anyone else find the "we knew you were gay at six" comment just a little weird?

Not necessarily. Jen knew that one of her friend's sons was gay when he was 4 when he talked about how he wanted to be a girl all the time, said that he used to be a girl, wanted to be a girl witch for Halloween, and dressed like a girl. Sometimes you just fucking know.

[ods..]

It's a wonderful, wonderful note. But does anyone else find the "we knew you were gay at six" comment just a little weird?

Not at all.

[amyzzz]

Not necessarily. Jen knew that one of her friend's sons was gay when he was 4 when he talked about how he wanted to be a girl all the time, said that he used to be a girl, wanted to be a girl witch for Halloween, and dressed like a girl. Sometimes you just fucking know.

So he's gay...or he wants to become a girl?

[SlowMotionApocalypse]

So he's gay...or he wants to become a girl?

There's a difference?

[Zafocaine]

Because, you know, having a three year old boy who plays with dolls in 2013 means you have a gay son. Lyk, I'm SO SURE! Because being a male child with female role models in 2013 means you're homosexual. It's a witch hunt. I don't agree with homosexuality, but I do think that every individual has a right to be what they want to be. I would feel ashamed to hold someone back from being who they feel they are. On the same note, I would feel ashamed of myself for forcing an identity on someone, especially children. It's obvious that the man is proud of his son, which is a beautiful thing. I think what somewhat damaged is suggesting is that perhaps the parents, the father particularly, had an overbearing influence on the child's growth and identity. Homosexuality isn't contagious. It's no hereditary. That a father and son, mother and daughter, or any other combination of parent/ child should BOTH be homosexuals, indicates a possible radical. This potential heartwarming story of gay family bonding is at least as likely a story of a dysfunctional family.

Oh shit....

He said it.

It's 2013, Zafocaine. Don't you know it's politically incorrect, and very insensitive, to suggest that an alternative lifestyle parent is a dysfunctional parent? Haven't you watched Portlandia?

Simmer down, folks. I knew my child was going to be a firefighter, an astronaut, wear dresses, have twenty children, and learn French by the time he was two hundred weeks old. Yeah, we're one of those parenting combos who quantifies our child's time on this earth in irrelevant amounts to keep that new baby smell around.

Seriously though. I'm hoping this entire conversation is in this thread because "No one gives a fuck." Just be who you are. Don't shout it out to the world. Make sure your friends know. We'll all congratulate you, and throw high fives, 'n whatnot. Other than that, NO ONE FUCKING CARES. Keep your sexuality private. Keep your revenge plans private. Keep your ugly fucking baby pictures off facebook. And no one wants to see you holding your cousin's baby, single ladies. It makes our cocks go soft when we're stalk-jerking your photos. End.

[BROKENDOLL]

Oh, Christ... they've driven you to talking to yourself too? This place will make you fucking nuts, man...





And yes, that is my banal confession for the day...

[Zafocaine]

Oh, Christ... they've driven you to talking to yourself too? This place will make you fucking nuts, man...





And yes, that is my banal confession for the day...

Don't blame the board. Plenty of us are just like this. Sometimes you have to paint a picture for all the pretty people. Otherwise they'll be left to their own devices, and Lord knows they'll either draw a jesus fish, a cock and balls, Nazi insignia, or a cock and balls with hair and semen shooting out comically. There's a fifty percent chance you're getting a variation of cock and balls, or boobs that look like the illustrator has never seen a pair.

But wait...

[ThatGirl]

Thatgirl, Let's hope they don't give him some weird pressure to be gay when he's not. Sometimes people are just different.

He was getting harassed on Facebook and some kids at school were bullying him and calling him gay, so they had the conversation but said to him it didn't matter to them either way - they just want him to be himself and be happy.

[captncrzy]

So he's gay...or he wants to become a girl?

He told us he used to be a girl in another life. But the girl stuff was just part of the whole story.

[RotationSlimWang]

Actually it's funny this comes up because the other day I was hanging out with my best friend who's a homo I moved out here from Jersey, typically when we get together (used to be roommates) we smoke a lot of weed, eat some pills, and I inevitably try to find creative questions to ask him about being gay. Because he's not like your average gay, he's a Jersey Ital gay, which means he's had a lot of inner conflict and he really has the ability to turn it on and off when it comes to whether he wants to seem like an intimidating straight guy, or when he lets it slip and is sometimes just like, "Oh my god those pillows match! Awesome!" Etc.

Anyway, so the other day I was over there, high as shit, and I start prodding him about the whole "you're born gay" question. Not because I don't believe that you are--I do--but just because it seemed curious to me that by that logic it would mean that not only was he a gay teenager even though he wasn't with a guy until he was like 20, he would've been a gay five year old. Which seemed weird to me, I mean I don't really think of myself as being a particularly straight 5 year old. I have a vague recollection of liking boobs but I think that was probably more just imitating other males in my family. I guess I had some girlfriends in kindergarten but that could be anything, it's not really a definition of sexuality.

So I ask him whether he thinks he was a gay five year old. He thinks for a second and says Yes, he wasn't having sexual thoughts but you could definitely see the signs. I pressed him further and he turned around and dug out a photo album from his childhood. One flip of the page and there I was face-to-face with a 5 year old Jason in those tiny shorts people wore back then and like just by the way he was sitting on the floor in the picture--head cocked to one side, kinda sticking his ass out a little--I decided he was right. Even just in photograph, that was one fucking gay five year old.

[kvnty]

[marooko]

fckh8

[chairmenmeow47]

people posting pictures of my thighs makes me want to be a parapalegic.

[Zafocaine]

Don't let unrealistic expectations stop you =)

[Santa]

Had some gravy and fries Friday night, my farts are still killing me with a heavy pungent rotten beef smell.

[BROKENDOLL]

Had some gravy and fries Friday night, my farts are still killing me with a heavy pungent rotten beef smell.

This is Monday... You might want to re-post this in the thread about green stuff and genitals if the pungency continues... Actually, with the board in it's present disarray of attitudes, nobody will even notice any pungent rotten smell.

[locachica73]

My children informed me last night that they think at least half my friends are swingers.