conversation with my mother

me: i am going to the gay marriage protest tomorrow with so-and-so

her: > pause < okay..i have to go

me: do you support marriage?

her: no!

me: why?

her: marriage is between a man and a woman. this is all bukwaas (urdu for foolish)!! i dont want to talk anymore!

::hangs up::

:ring ring:

me: don't you think your son should be able to get married?

her: i don't want to talk about this - i have to go to sleep!

me: but why ..why are you against me getting married?

her: man-man woman-woman is not marriage. it is ABNORMAL. you cannot produce kids that way

me: so should infertile couples not be allowed to get married either?

her: i have to go to sleep! bye!

:hangs up:

:ring ring:

me: why am i not allowed to get married? why would you not support your own son?

her: i dont want to talk anymore! i have to go to sleep!

me: how am i supposed to have a relationship with you if you don't want me to have the same rights...

her: what...rights..what right is this?

me: just to be able to get married, if i wanted to...

her: then get married, do not call me again or i will not pick up. i have to go to sleep

me: i am sending you an email. will you read it?

her: i am going to sleep! no email

me: will you read it tomorrow

her: maybe, maybe not..

me: you should read it

:click:

Well, yes. It takes a little time to change your mind about these things, it doesn't happen in one phone call.

i did happen to tell her that rachel maddow is gay two weeks ago though in election news-talk, and anderson cooper, and she just said okay. like it was no big deal. and i know she still watches them.

at least i'm still conversing with my mother. no longer with my dad since he thinks i am going to get aids and die lol

i am going to go watch Triumph of the Will now to stop thinking and prevent getting depressed

(got it from the video store)

Oh yeah. Triumph of the Will is an amazing way to prevent getting depressed </sarcasm>

thanks for contributing to the thread!

(i have never seen it before and need to finish it before this BBC documentary and a Fassbinder movie that are all due very soon. i knowingly wrote that sentence if you couldnt tell)

> it doesn't happen in one phone call.

if it did that would be a good one-act show. or a bad one-act show

It may not happen in one phone call, but I hope there will soon be one phone call when it does happen and she's able to acknowledge that you should have the same rights to marriage.

Oh, when I watched Triumph of the Will, I just kept thinking about the cats in the windows as the parade goes by, and how all those Nazi cats are dead now.

I remember reading the autobio of G. Gordon Liddy once, but I can't remember the name. Triumph of the Will sounds like it should be it though...

Please post more correspondence of your mum!