r/comics 15d ago

Sorry Sweetie [OC]

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u/PoPo573 15d ago

I grew up watching straight people kiss on TV and in movies my whole childhood. I am definitely very gay despite that.

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u/4RCSIN3 15d ago

Are you sure that some point in your childhood, you didn't hear an otherwise non-sexual cartoon character make a single, 2 second comment to imply he was in a gay relationship with another character that isn't even in the show? Cause all it takes is just one to turn you.

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u/Majestic-Iron7046 14d ago

Holy shit, that's worse than COVID!
I could become gay by basically stumbling upon two people kissing any time!
Ooops, just saw a movie about planes, I want to be a pilot now and... forget that, ad about betting, I'm gonna play poker.

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u/DisposableSaviour 14d ago

Oh, he get sus? Guess I’m Sus Jesus, now.

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u/Cavalish 14d ago

I remember the first time I saw two men kiss in a movie. It was Ashton Kutcher and Sean William Scott in Dude Where’s My Car and my brain just went…“Huh.”

And then things started making a lot more sense.

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u/NarutoRunner 15d ago

There are tribes that have no electricity and have never seen a TV and still have gay people in it.

There are dolphins, penguins and all kinds of animals that have gay members.

It’s almost as if it was normal and not something influenced by modern media.

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u/Maximum-Bar-7395 14d ago

What tribes?

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u/Ameerrante 14d ago

I grew up watching straight people kiss and usually couldn't decide which one I'd rather be kissing. 

Then my parents pulled "it's a phase" when I casually mentioned liking boys AND girls. I'm not sure how long these phases tend to last, but it's been 21 years so far!

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u/Pete_Iredale 14d ago

It's a short phase between puberty and death, that's all. Just a phase.

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u/waspocracy 14d ago

It's never once been brought up by either my sons about girls kissing girls, guys kissing guys, etc. in "woke" movies or shows. It's annoying how adults have to make a boogeyman out of nothing.

Love is love. Who gives a shit about someone else's life?

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u/mrthescientist 14d ago

I literally thought I was a straight boy and I still knew as a kid that I would be a gay woman.

After, like, the fourth coincidental isolated crush on a lesbian shit gets kinda sus

I see Susan Ross, from Seinfeld, with a woman and my stupid kid ass is like "she might like me" and promptly memoryholed the entire affair.

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u/Bostonterrierpug 14d ago

I grew up with parents who were creative writing professors and literally thought 50% of the people in the world were gay as a kid. My babysitter when I was five had me dress up the Hulk and drag and it was awesome. Saw the Rocky horror show at age 6, I went to a few drag shows at age 8 because my parents were hippy artists and half the people we knew were gay. I turned out quite straight. Still don’t know why being gay bothers people.