When I was over at my friend’s house, her mother called my friend out of the room for a chat. When my friend returned, she asked my girlfriend and I to not sit next to each other because it made her mother uncomfortable, and then returned to cuddling in her boyfriend’s lap
An entire room of people I considered close friends heard her say this and no one said a word. I made a half-hearted attempt to say, “but that’s ridiculous,” and still everyone stared silently at the floor.
The idea of “not ‘disrespecting’ someone who invited you into their home” by calling them out on bigoted bullshit has cropped a few times in my life now. I am opposed to the principle, apparently in contrast to everyone around me. I wonder what they would say about this incident?
