tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2589070320081266967.post5391735739947845398..comments2023-06-19T07:51:29.540-07:00Comments on CORK ANIMAL: "I'm always the winner. Game over."Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05616555497561732927noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2589070320081266967.post-42727586687473377982008-03-02T14:57:00.000-08:002008-03-02T14:57:00.000-08:00Chris!I can totally relate to this! But instead of...Chris!<BR/><BR/>I can totally relate to this! But instead of being emotionally attacked for being gay, I was attacked for wanting to go outside. Quite literally. My foreign father was convinced that the American culture “out there” would transform his perfect children (collectively his 2nd opportunity at life) into a promiscuous, drug addicted, murderous, thieving, and yes homosexual, family disgrace. In response to my wanting to cross the street to watch my same-age neighbor play the Are You Afraid of the Dark computer game, or years later, drive 5 miles to meet my Chemistry group for 3 hours, my dad would relay graphic tales of rape and murder in incredibly traumatizing detail. At the end of these horrifying stories he would always chastise me for preferring a fate like that over heeding advice given to me by YOUR OWN FATHER, which is simply DESIGNED to KEEP YOU SAFE! Every mention of the weather or progress in school was an ideal segue into such a conversation.<BR/><BR/>Well, after the all the homeless wanderings and shows in the bars with "vagabonds of society" (my beloved bandmates) and (gasp) unauthorized airplane travels, my track record is much like yours.<BR/><BR/>It's one thing to encourage your child to be safe or to be straight because you genuinely feel that it would make them happier. Even if you’re ultimately wrong, at least your intention was noble. It is quite another thing when you almost hope that their decision brings them pain just so that you stand in victorious unquestionable authority. <BR/><BR/>I'm just starting to reach the point where I'm no longer bound to ensuring that he never gets that satisfaction.<BR/><BR/>VickiAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com