my elderly Egyptian Uber driver happily informed me that he “supports the gays now” because he lives with a lesbian couple and “the husband lesbian is a better husband than I was”, happy pride everyone
I was thinking I'd seen this before and was happy to see you're the person who posted it originally way back then and not a joke thief. A Pridemas miracle
My S. Asian Am parents came around after I had gay roommates in college. They began thinking about how they would feel if it was their child who was denied equal rights & their beliefs changed. When a friend’s son came out later, my Mom actively called out others on any bigoted remarks.
I kinda love that, he's perhaps still a way to go with the language but it's sweet and, I think, a good example of how people can get past the negative propaganda and see that love is love.
I never made use of Uber and will not do so in the future. Uber's algorithms use psychological tricks that monitor and manipulate drivers. And no sick pay for them, no pension.
I love this! I was on a zoom call last week and one participant introduced herself as “Janet, 83 years young, a she/her and proud mother in law to my daughter’s wife” and once I figured out that math, it made me so happy. Allyship!
Well, I'll accept that! That's definitely progress.
I don't know a lot of Egyptians, but if that came from an old conservative Brazilian I would consider that real progress.
Also: obviously most lesbians are "better husbands" (I'm laughing) than 90% of men. No doubt about that.
I had a plumber say, “Your husband could handle this.” I stood there awkwardly since I’m the handy one and wanted to pay to make the problem go away, but felt weak and bourgeois about it.
He amended, “Or your woman husband.”
Husband lesbians or "wife gals" are truly a gift to the universe, they/we remind women that a better world is possible and husbands could be like that.
Give me seven seasons of this as a half-hour sitcom, please. (Preferably not a laugh track sitcom one, but something out of the Parks & Rec/The Good Place.)
The best cab interaction I've ever had was in Chicago with a Nigerian guy who spoke English well but didn't get colloquialisms. He said we'd have to take a detour because a road was closed for the "parade of proud homosexuals."
I lived in Provincetown briefly 30 years ago, and was out on a boat with friends once, and the older-dad Portuguese American fisherman friend of one of them happily exclaimed that he sure hoped his young daughter would be a lesbian, "because men are pigs!"
Reminds me of a Romanian friend's father very earnestly explaining he didn't 'get gay things' but a gay couple moved next to him and 'the husband treat the wife man nicer than some of my sisters got treated' so now he thinks we're alright.
I have such respect for anyone who can change themselves when evidence suggests it, rather than receding into anger and accusation. Ice cream for you, Mr. elderly Egyptian Uber driver!