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[vent] "surely i don't need to remove my nail polish IMMEDIATELY", i thought (lemmy.ml)
submitted 22 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) by DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml to c/mtf@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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yeah well it finally happened, i got lazy. if my nails are painted, the first thing i do when getting home is clean em off... but last night i was tired and figured i could just do it in the morning. well, of course that backfired immediately - first thing that happens when i leave my room this morning is my dad seeing me heading into the bathroom with bright blue sparkly nails and a bag of cosmetics. he didn't say anything immediately, but has been weirdly sigh-y all day, and just now stuck his head in my room saying he "wants to chat" later today (extremely out-of-character) while being extremely cryptic and evasive about what exactly he wants to talk about.

(for context, although i live in switzerland, my parents are hardcore USA-an tradcaths (the kind who hate the "woke" pope). my dad has voted for trump the last 3 consecutive US elections and will do so again, has trump merch proudly on display in his room, immediately started voting for the far-right immigrant party as soon as he got his swiss citizenship, regularly goes on unprovoked angry diatribes about how much gay people disgust him, etc. you get the picture; he's pretty much the stereotype of the "far right religious nutjob". my mom is almost aggressively unopinionated about most things, and certainly doesn't make any effort to rein my dad ever)

anyway, i'm looking forward to talking with him this evening, i'm sure it'll be great fun! ಠ_ಠ

update: have managed to defer talk until "later"; we'll see where this goes (but i am prepping for a quick exit if necessary). will update again if anything interesting happens

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[-] Im_old@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago

the problem is, her dad already made up a story and opinion in his mind. You could say that you painted one nail for every woman you banged last night just to keep count, and he'll still be unmovable in what he KNOWS be the ABSOLUTE TRUTH. I'm sorry op, best of luck, I'm hope you can find someone in EU you can couch surf in this community

[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 4 points 21 hours ago

Yeah, for any normal person its an easy sell, for a MAGA type, probably not. You'd have to go pretty aggressive on the "Lol, you think nail polish makes me gay? If I was gay I'd far more flamboyant" or something.

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