I understand that parents try and raise their kids a certain way but what happens when you are old enough to know between right and wrong and you don't agree with the way you were 'raised'?
I'm 22 and when I was growing up when ever we would go out on vacation or to a restaurant or where ever, if there was a homeless person on the corner my dad would say something like 'get a job' and he made it seem like if someone is homeless its their fault and all homeless people are bad. My dad's side of the family seems to be very closed minded, they don't have any friends of different race (black, mexican..etc) and they are homophobic they say derogatory things about g*y people and 'that's gross' and stuff like that. Then there is my mother who when we go out in public to a store or something if someone is different, like if they have a disability she will make a comment. One time we went to a store and the cashier was handicap and after we checked out and got to the car my mom was like 'what a dork!' My brother is like this too, the other day we were at a store and there was a woman who's hands were messed up (I cant remember the name for it but its when you are born with your fingers all bunched up) and later on my brother was all "did you see those fingers, im going to have nightmares about them" My mother's current husband is homophobic and when he talks about g*y guys he uses the F word.
I want to say something when ever stuff like this is said but I dont know if I should. I usually ignore it but it bothers me. What should I do?
I also have to put up with stuff like this at work, we have a few crossdressers that come into the store and my coworkers will make comments about them, I personally see nothing wrong with people crossdressing but I don't want to go off on a coworker and then have them get all mad at me because I don't agree with them.
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