How can I introduce my mom to this generations homosexuality?

3.14159265: How can I introduce my mom to this generations homosexuality?
When my mom first saw two girls kiss she cried because she had never seen this before. My mom is sad by this so how can i help? She is 53. Im not lesbian or anything but i accept others. How can i get my mother to accept others and not stare like she usually does?

Answers and Views:

Answer by Aurynn MacLeod
I suppose a serious conversation regarding the nature of sexual orientation might be worth a try.

Answer by SweetTabasco
Just tell that this is human nature and this behaviour always existed, is just that now people are more open. At 53 she is big enough to understand that. 🙂

Answer by Myrtle Lewinsky
SweetTab, this women’s mother sounds oblivious to her surroundings. I’d say She’d take longer then 53. But ahh well.

Answer by Lyndsey
Tell her not to be prejudice and accept the world for how it is.

Answer by dementors_suck
Rent a good lgbt movie or documentary. I’d suggest If These Walls Could Talk 2. After the movie ask her what questions she has. That would be a good way to get the commuication flowing

Answer by thesongfairy
You can’t. And you shouldn’t. You do not want your mother to realize that she is a complete moral failure in how she raised you and that she didn’t transmit any moral values to you. That is the single most important function of any woman that has a kid. For her to know how deeply she failed would be very very bad. She knows it is sick and perverted and that there are histories of things that happened to both girls growing up that make them hate men. It doesn’t matter how much it is denied or lied about. We have 100 years of social science evidence and research that reflects reality. When you are ‘accepting’ of this relationship, you shouldn’t be unaccepting of any relationship. Men with boys. Women with ponies. People with diseases passing them on. Every one of these groups argue that they are in loving caring relationships that are natural. Your mother is right and you are wrong and you disrespect her enormously by wanted her to abandon her standards and moral values. 8>}

Answer by dartagnon p
I used to be the webmaster of a gay/lesbian website and the first time I saw two girls kissing on the street I went over and gave them my card. They looked at the card and then at each other and then at me and said “We’re not GAY! My Suzy is just my best friend … but if we WERE gay … then she would be my girlfriend for sure!” I was so emabarrassed and realized that women can do stuff like that and guys would die before they would ever. But it’s so kewl for people to be able to love each other in public without anyone casting aspersions their way.

Go to a local gay bar and ask them if they have a copy of the local gay newspaper. They all should have one. You can look them up in the phone book under “gay”.

Or bring it up on Google. There are over 450 species of animals who have gay contingents and its really not that big a deal for most people nowadays. My 23 year old son said that people no longer call it gay anymore … they just like to have fun and they no longer discriminate on who they have sex with … as long as it’s fun. Go figure!

You can also tell her to just grow up and get used to it but I know how she feels because my Mom used to be that way until I sat down and had a talk with her. Now she accepts everyone and doesn’t have a problem with it at all. And she’s 79 … I’m just a kid at 59. It helps that I had the gay website. That really got me to understand a LOT about people and now I like to consider myself Enlightened so I try to be one with the universe and understand ALL things and not worry about what anyone does. It’s all good.

But if you get her the local gay newspaper it should tell her how the local gay people feel about issues and things of importance to them and it will give her an insight into THEIR world. It never hurts to open the mind. Keep her away from the gay parades though. Those are a bit over the top and will freak her out for the rest of her life.

Good luck … holler anytime. Always happy to help expand minds.

I AM
Dartagnon

Answer by Daniel
My mom turned 53 on Friday, and i’ll tell you this, she is kinda of a hater, i’m straight, but i do have bi friends, i know that if i told my mom that, she would freak, tell your mom, “that that’s where society is headed, and you keep looking forward and don’t look at others, cause that doesn’t affect you, they don’t care about you the same way you don’t care about them, so why give them any breath.”