Anyway, yeah. My parents have a friend, Bruce, who is very reclusive and generally a nice, philosophical guy with lots of thoughts. Sadly, one of those thoughts is "Gay people shouldn't get married. It would hurt marriage between men and women." And every time my parents ask him, "How exactly does, say, Joaquin and Bear [her college friends] getting married affect your thirty-five year marriage to Bonnie?" he never has an answer, he just gives a lemon face puckered look.
I will never forget the look on his face when I accidentally on purpose let it slip that I am bisexual, last Thanksgiving, when my husband and I did our annual visit. He was philosophizing about Ancient Greece with my husband and me, and in the middle of my reply I said "...and since I am bixsexual..." And I watched his face carefully. It was fascinating, watching him try to keep the absolute shock off his face. He had known me since I was a toddler (his son and I went to the same pre-school) so he apparently decided that freaking out in front of my very accepting family would be weird. I think he's used to it by now.
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Date: 2012-11-02 07:46 pm (UTC)Anyway, yeah. My parents have a friend, Bruce, who is very reclusive and generally a nice, philosophical guy with lots of thoughts.
Sadly, one of those thoughts is "Gay people shouldn't get married. It would hurt marriage between men and women."
And every time my parents ask him, "How exactly does, say, Joaquin and Bear [her college friends] getting married affect your thirty-five year marriage to Bonnie?" he never has an answer, he just gives a lemon face puckered look.
I will never forget the look on his face when I accidentally on purpose let it slip that I am bisexual, last Thanksgiving, when my husband and I did our annual visit. He was philosophizing about Ancient Greece with my husband and me, and in the middle of my reply I said "...and since I am bixsexual..." And I watched his face carefully. It was fascinating, watching him try to keep the absolute shock off his face. He had known me since I was a toddler (his son and I went to the same pre-school) so he apparently decided that freaking out in front of my very accepting family would be weird.
I think he's used to it by now.