Aimeé
It’s Pride Month, which means celebrating the LGBTQIA+ community! They’re an amazing and varied group of people and they also absolutely exist, despite what the mother of Redditor u/Master-Specific thinks. The other side of the celebration coin is the centuries of persecution that LGBT people are still experiencing until this day. This story titled, “AITA for telling my little brother that girls can kiss girls?” is a clear cut example of that.
The OP is a 17-year-old girl with a six-year-old brother. She says they were watching the cartoon She-Ra together, and two female characters kissed at the end of the episode.
“Ew! Why are they kissing?” her little brother exclaimed. She says she asked him why he thinks that and he responded, “Because girls can’t kiss girls. Only boys can kiss girls.”
She says she simply told him that girls can kiss girls and boys can kiss boys and it’s the same as a boy kissing a girl. Then they resumed watching TV. That should be the end of it, but no:
Then later my mother comes home and I tell her about it. She gets upset that I talk to him about it and that he’s just a kid and he shouldn’t need to know that. I tell her that it’s best to tell him now since if he grows up he’ll become more stubborn and less likely to accept facts than if he was younger.
My mother becomes angry and starts yelling how I’m not the parent and how I’m trying to make him become like me. I tell her no I just want him to not be homophobic.
That set off an argument. The OP says she is a part of the queer community, though she doesn’t specify her sexual identity. She says even before she was aware of her sexuality, she still didn’t believe in homophobic behavior.
I tell her that her and father still act homophobic even when I came out to them years ago and I just wanted my brother to be different and not be hateful to others since he already showing disgusted at same sex couples. My mother still make homophobic comments around me even making fun of me when I tell her I’m uncomfortable.
I know that I can’t turn my brother into me and force him to become something he’s not but I just want him to learn that being different doesn’t mean you deserve to be frown upon. I know I can be too much so I just want to know if I was in the wrong.
It sounds like this poor girl is being made to feel ashamed of herself for who she is and for asking for basic respect from her parents. The commenters all fully supported her and her decision to educate her brother. Especially because she wasn’t saying anything that isn’t true: lesbians exist!
It’s pretty hard to reason with homophobes, especially when you’re dependent on them for food and shelter. That’s why the Trevor Project reports that LGBTQ youth make up as much as 40% of the homeless youth population—and why even in 2020, so many are afraid to come out of the closet. This girl was very brave to stand up to her parents, and teach her brother a very simple, necessary lesson about the world: love is love.
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