SO I'm not telling my mum anything again...

So someone tell me if I'm over-reacting to this...

So I just told my mum I'm bi. Go me, being brave and all that. But here's the problem. Where as my Dad gave me a hug, said "thanks for trusting me with this" and was really cool about it my mum did this:

"Are you sure?"
"Well don't do anything stupid with it"
"You do always do things just to SHOCK people"

The problem is I know she searched my room at some point and I'm fairly sure she would have found either a wig or some womens underwear in there. So now I don't know if that comment was linked to not believing or whatever or if she is trying to tell me "now don't you go comin' round here with that CD shit!"

Needless to say I'm kinda pissed.

 

So this went downhill so much faster than I thought it would...

So it turns out my mum thought that bisexual meant that your tastes changed every so often. In her own words "It's a shame you'll never be able to have a long term relationship". Which I thought was funny at first if only because then I figured it was just because she'd never considered it before.

Then she decided that bisexual meant plain gay. "At least I'll never have a daughter-in-law!" (Ignoring her other son and 2 daughters who may turn out gay). But still in the funny zone. Apparently she has been expecting my brother to "drop a bombshell" like this for ages but was suprised to hear me say it...maybe I don't act gay enough Then it got bad.

"As long as you don't start going around wearing dresses! That's just weird!".

Well fuck...it then transpired that she thought that cross dressing and gender transition was weird and basically wrong, although couldn't give me a reason. Then when I questioned it she started going on about how LGBT groups make everything worse for themselves by making such a big thing about sexuality. Apparently bad things don't happen to LGBT people in civilised countries, who knew right?

This went on for some significant amount of time and took a lot of explaining about just how fantastically misguided she is about the whole thing. "If [LGBT people] didn't go around showing it off all the time their wouldn't be a problem". I tried questioning why she could walk down the road hand-in-hand with her husband and its fine but if I did it with a guy that would be 'showing it off' but she had no answer.

Took sodding hours but I think I finally managed to convince her to rethink her position a bit but my goodness that was an unpleasant couple of hours...