Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them] to askchapo • 8 months agoHow would you explain being non-binary to boomers that have no idea what any of that means?message-squaremessage-square22 fedilinkarrow-up130
arrow-up130message-squareHow would you explain being non-binary to boomers that have no idea what any of that means?Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them] to askchapo • 8 months agomessage-square22 Commentsfedilink
minus-squareFlakesBongler [they/them]hexbear23·8 months agoActual conversation between me and my parents Me: I'm nonbinary Them: So you're gay? Me: Sort of, but that's not what this is about Dad: Wait, so are you getting the transgenders? Me: No, this isn't that either, I'm just nonbinary Mom: So, are you still marrying [your partner]? Me: No, mama, but we weren't gonna get married anyway Dad: Okay, so what does this nonbinary mean? Mom: You're not gonna get surgery are you? Me: Okay, look, you know the old Almond Joy commercial? Sometimes you feel like a nut? Sometimes you don't? I don't, I do not feel like a nut, I am not any kind of nut Dad: You said you weren't gonna get surgery Me: link
minus-squarePixTupy@lemmy.mlhexbear13·8 months agoSorry but if that was the real conversation seems like they were trying really hard to understand and you were trying really hard to confuse them. linkfedilink
Actual conversation between me and my parents
Me: I'm nonbinary
Them: So you're gay?
Me: Sort of, but that's not what this is about
Dad: Wait, so are you getting the transgenders?
Me: No, this isn't that either, I'm just nonbinary
Mom: So, are you still marrying [your partner]?
Me: No, mama, but we weren't gonna get married anyway
Dad: Okay, so what does this nonbinary mean?
Mom: You're not gonna get surgery are you?
Me: Okay, look, you know the old Almond Joy commercial? Sometimes you feel like a nut? Sometimes you don't?
I don't, I do not feel like a nut, I am not any kind of nut
Dad: You said you weren't gonna get surgery
Me:
Sorry but if that was the real conversation seems like they were trying really hard to understand and you were trying really hard to confuse them.