"I hate when they pull that gay shit!"

[Kattey]

Okay, that isn't my opinion.
My "charming" uncle has informed me that some show he watches ( I don't even pretend to care or remember which) has a lesbian couple now. He tells me "I get they gotta do it because of the gays to get viewers, but I hate when they pull that gay shit!"
I can't stand this guy, but he lives with my Gramma and she and I are extremely close, so I must tolerate his hateful ass.
Just thought I'd share my frustration with you ladies. Maybe one of you can share with me some wonderfully smart ass thing to say to him.

[pixy0stix]

"I hate when bigoted people open their mouths."

[laurenpetro]

one of my co-workers said, in reference to Howard Stern, "you know how he gets that pushy-jew way sometimes."

out loud.

[nestbrenda]

I don't think it makes someone bigoted if watching gay people hook up makes them uncomfortable.

[emilyj]

He sounds special. I like what Pixy said.

Or you could go totally bitchy and say "Really? I thought guys liked watching two girls get it on. Wait...are YOU gay???"

Then watch him turn purple and sputter in rage.

[JLN]

May 16, 2012 21:30:55 GMT -5 @nestbrenda said:

I don't think it makes someone bigoted if watching gay people hook up makes them uncomfortable.

[Kattey]

It doesn't make him uncomfortable, he just thinks gays are all hell-bound and a plague on our society. The couple could just have been referenced in passing as being gay and he has to say something about it.

I'm not brave enough to straight out call him bigoted, my poor Gramma would die from the tension. She hates when people in her family have tension.

[emilyj]

May 16, 2012 21:30:55 GMT -5 @nestbrenda said:

I don't think it makes someone bigoted if watching gay people hook up makes them uncomfortable.

No. What makes it bigoted is calling it "that gay shit". YWIA.

[emilyj]

May 16, 2012 21:33:53 GMT -5 Kattey said:

I'm not brave enough to straight out call him bigoted, my poor Gramma would die from the tension. She hates when people in her family have tension.

Could you go less subtle and say "I hate when people open their mouths and stupid falls out"?

[dev22]

May 16, 2012 21:30:55 GMT -5 @nestbrenda said:

I don't think it makes someone bigoted if watching gay people hook up makes them uncomfortable.

Watching straight people hook up makes me uncomfortable.

[twotrue]

Fit the homophobia by voting for me (a real life gay) for global mod! Lol!

sent from phone

[lyssbobiss, Command, B613]

May 16, 2012 21:30:55 GMT -5 @nestbrenda said:

I don't think it makes someone bigoted if watching gay people hook up makes them uncomfortable.

Watching ANYONE hook up makes me uncomfortable. When you single out one group, but are cool with everyone else? Yeah, you have a problem.

[ering1115]

May 17, 2012 7:15:18 GMT -5 lyssbobiss, Command, B613 said:

May 16, 2012 21:30:55 GMT -5 @nestbrenda said:

I don't think it makes someone bigoted if watching gay people hook up makes them uncomfortable.

Watching ANYONE hook up makes me uncomfortable. When you single out one group, but are cool with everyone else? Yeah, you have a problem.

watching ugly people hook up makes me uncomfortable...

i would probably throw something along the lines of "well uncle john, they have people like norman bates in movies to capture the 'still lives at home with my mom' audience".

[iammalcolmx]

May 16, 2012 21:30:55 GMT -5 @nestbrenda said:

I don't think it makes someone bigoted if watching gay people hook up makes them uncomfortable.

They gon get you!!!

[ttt]

Dollars to donuts he secretly watches girl-on-girl porn. But I bet that "gay shit" doesn't bother him.

[IIOY]

May 16, 2012 21:24:10 GMT -5 laurenpetro said:

one of my co-workers said, in reference to Howard Stern, "you know how he gets that pushy-jew way sometimes."

out loud.

This person has never spent time with an Irish mother.

[iammalcolmx]

May 17, 2012 7:46:04 GMT -5 ttt said:

Dollars to donuts he secretly watches girl-on-girl porn. But I bet that "gay shit" doesn't bother him.

/ded

[secretlyevil]

May 17, 2012 7:25:21 GMT -5 ering1115 said:

i would probably throw something along the lines of "well uncle john, they have people like norman bates in movies to capture the 'still lives at home with my mom' ".

That is perfect!

[juris11]

This is obviously not what your uncle is talking about, but I will say that I do hate it when they randomly decide to make a character gay on a show for a while. Where it is like, um ok, where did that even come from? Then it is gone and they aren't gay anymore and it is never mentioned again. I'm thinking of when I used to watch The OC and randomly Marissa was a lesbian for awhile.

[Deleted]

May 16, 2012 21:30:55 GMT -5 @nestbrenda said:

I don't think it makes someone bigoted if watching gay people hook up makes them uncomfortable.

They were getting it on? I thought they said that a lesbian couple joined the cast -- not that it had gone all soft core.

[Deleted]

And speaking of watching a same-sex make-out session, my mother and I went to see Mulholland Drive together when it came out, like 15 years ago. In a tiny little independent theater. You could hear a pin drop when the lovely leading ladies were going for it. But the masturbation scene took the awkward cake.

To be very clear, it wasn't seeing the action that was awkward, it was seeing it with my MOTHER. Today, I don't even think it would be a big deal. But that was before we'd sort of formed our "friendship" where we could talk about grown up stuff. Yup, weird.

[IIOY]

May 17, 2012 9:10:02 GMT -5 @vanessadoof said:

To be very clear, it wasn't seeing the action that was awkward, it was seeing it with my MOTHER. Today, I don't even think it would be a big deal. But that was before we'd sort of formed our "friendship" where we could talk about grown up stuff. Yup, weird.

To this day I cannot watch a sex scene in a movie with my parents. The silence in the room is defeaning and awkward as hell.

[ttt]

May 17, 2012 9:35:54 GMT -5 IIOY said:

May 17, 2012 9:10:02 GMT -5 @vanessadoof said:

To be very clear, it wasn't seeing the action that was awkward, it was seeing it with my MOTHER. Today, I don't even think it would be a big deal. But that was before we'd sort of formed our "friendship" where we could talk about grown up stuff. Yup, weird.

To this day I cannot watch a sex scene in a movie with my parents. The silence in the room is defeaning and awkward as hell.

My mother can barely bring herself to say the word "breast" in front of me.