• CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world
        0·
        10 个月前

        I once made a pact with my best friend, around when we were 12 years old, that if either of us came out as gay that the other one would kill them.

        My solution was to stop talking to him a long time ago and to get a protective boyfriend. I refuse to become the most dangerous gay game.

          • CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world
            1·
            8 个月前

            No, I’m mostly joking. I haven’t talked to him in years and he’s not crazy like that. And who knows, maybe he’s changed as much as I have since that was well over a decade ago that we said that.

  • alpacapants@lemmy.world
    17·
    10 个月前

    I saw a woman being grabbed and angry whispered at the fair. She looked scared and was much smaller than the guy. She had three kids and it was just awful to watch.

    But it was in a crowd, and no one was reacting. We locked eyes and to my shame I didn’t do anything. Not an excuse, but I am a smaller woman, I had my kid with me and my husband who is larger was in another area of the fair. I felt scared if that man was comfortable doing that to her, openly , in public and in front of the kids, would be hit me if I tried to intervene? And how to intervene? Would I make it worse for her. I couldn’t figure out what to do, so I did nothing. By the time my husband got back, I had lost sight of them.

    I still remember the two youngest kids, around my daughter’s age, being unphased, but the older kid looking scared and embarrassed. The woman looking resigned and sad. It really bothers me and I always thought I would stand up on that situation.

  • INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone
    9·
    10 个月前

    When I was about 16 a random girl gave me her number and I gave her a fake one because I was nervous about… Something? I don’t even know.

    I often feel bad about it.

  • agent_flounder@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    10 个月前

    Not sticking up for that girl in class (in the 80d) that the super scary bully called ugly. Worse. Going along with his bullshit. Fucking hell. I was such a goddamn smarmy scared little bitch. Never, ever again.

  • roofuskit@lemmy.world
    1·
    9 个月前

    Joining in on any bullying as a kid instead of stopping it. I was also bullied. One day in freshman year of high school a switch flipped and I would not stand for it anymore, but I even bullied the kid I started standing up for before the switch flipped.