To be more specific, my parents raised my siblings and me to “respect” them, saying "yes sir, and “no ma’am” to everything they said. Spankings, all of that. Typical super conservative evangelical parents. Before I learned better, I was that way too. I went to college and since then have embraced the left more and more.
They’ll say things now and then that are really distasteful politically. Today I made an Instagram post about DeSantis lying about liberal states allowing post-birth abortions and I got several family members railing against me. I’m tired of staying quiet when this happens. I think that, because how my parents raised me, I’m afraid to speak my mind to older family members. Fuck that though.
Has anyone else had this experience? I wonder if therapy would help. I just don’t know how to explain it.
I try to not talk to my mother about politics, because any thime she’s proven wrong and not coming to that conclusion on her own, she gets very emotional.
On the other hand, I like to make sarcastic remarks to her boyfriend on social media, where I exaggerate his political views to their logical conclusion. He’s very convinced, that the anti-LGBTQ movement will stop at removing gays from public life and using the “magical” cure on trans people, and not at publicly lynching people for not having kids by 30, due to how hegemonic heterosexuality works.