At this point, Tongtong's mom needs to take a verbal sledgehammer and bring it down on Lin Luxi's mom's thick skull.
Like, just tell her their daughters are going out, you support them no matter what and if she doesn't want to alienate literally everyone in her life (seeing how things are going with her husband) she'd better cut it out with the goddamn homophobia.
Unfortunately, that is not how bigoted minds work. The more you push against bigotry, the more it is reinforced and entrenched. The way to do it is actually the way Tongtong's mom is already doing it -- asking questions and slowly making the person realize how dumb and self-defeating their bigotry actually is. And unfortunately, while this method is good on the individual level, it requires too much time and effort to scale well. :(
last edited at Jun 19, 2022 4:32AM