The Internet recently rediscovered a 2015 Tumblr post from a user named Lyn who identifies as pansexual and came out to their grandmother with brevity and wit after Grandma expressed a horrifically homophobic belief.
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Short story shorter: Grandma said gays will go to hell, and when Lyn got up to leave, their cousin asked where they were going. “Hell, apparently!” Lyn snarked.
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Lyn offered the epilogue on their Tumblr two days later:
the door was shut before i realized what i had said, and then i ran into the bathroom, where i sent that text
while i was hiding in the bathroom, my cousin knocked on the door, “you can come out now” she said, followed by “well i guess you already did that, but”
anyway, we took refuge in her room
apparently, after i left the room my grandmother turned to my mom and said something to the extent of “how could you let your daughter become a queer”
my mother, aunt, and uncle all went off at her for that one, there was quite a bit of yelling
after a while, my mother came upstairs and told me that she supported me no matter what, and then we left without talking to my grandmother.
the next morning, she called to apologize for her actions. i have no idea how sincere this apology was because my mother was the one on the phone with her, but i am still invited to christmas
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Hopefully that vile miserable noxious crunt suffered from epic unrelenting yeast infections for the rest of her miserable life….
sfhairy
Pansexuals aren’t gay, so how was this coming out? Being gay means you’re lesbian, gay, or bisexual. Being pansexual, means your pansexual. Now explain to grandma that you invented a word to describe how you f*ck anything that moves. That’s a conversation to write about.
Evji108
What’s happening now is teenage kids who want to rebel – mainly girls, are “coming out”, as pansexual or gender fluid, when in reality they just want to be cool and or avoid gender labels and sass their parents. . I’m seeing this with my friend’s kids.
In this case look what fun they had pushing grandma’s buttons.