• @[email protected]
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    5 months ago

    This is my greatest anxiety about the chance of having a gay child. I mean, alongside the systemic oppression they will face.

    But also, I’m both afraid I’ll make this joke and regret it. And also afraid I’ll pass on the chance to make this joke and regret it.

    Plus the systemic oppression thing. That too.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppetOPM
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      5 months ago

      Just make the joke, it is your obligation as a father. It would also greatly diffuse the situation and cooly tell your kid that you’re fine with it and still love them, and that nothing will change between you two.

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        105 months ago

        Just make the joke, it is your obligation as a father.

        I’ll hold onto that. Hopefully my kids would worry about me if I somehow didn’t make the joke, at this point, anyway.

    • @KillerTofu
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      5 months ago

      As someone who came out and didn’t speak to their father for a year, this would have been a much better response to my coming out.

      We’re good now though, it’s been 30 years.

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      95 months ago

      The best part about the cartoon is that you can pass the joke at first, then send the cartoon later anyway