Alright, I promised the Judaism thoughtdump but my brain went in like 5,000 other directions for a while but now let’s go :3 I want to tell all of you about the things I would think about when
@Lunarmoon21 would post.
Well, the depressing one is my father. Since I was, idk 12ish, he started going on these rants about how all gay people are evil and should be killed or at least all shipped off to an island to be kept away from him. That’s what drove me into being suicidally depressed from around that age. Yeah, fuckin that early of a developmental stage. He kept me very sheltered as a kid, to the point I was never sure if I should watch Married With Children because it seemed too “adult”. Yes this was something I worried about at that young of an age. I decided to finally check out an episode after my usual Digimon watch. The characters went to a gay bar. I didn’t really understand it that young, but hey, this show is pretty cool.
I didn’t even know he had been paying any attention. I had been in my room. He was FURIOUS. I got blew up on when I did nothing wrong.
My memory on this is hazy, so I can’t truthfully say this is the case. But I finally put two and two together when I was talking to someone last year, about why I think this happened. The thing is, I just don’t remember for absolute certain if these happened back-to-back. But I think they did.
One day when I got home from school, dad was once again FURIOUS and for the longest time I had no fucking idea why. I’d get a B at worst in Maths, usually a B in PE which doesn’t have homework anyway, and then As in everything else. And there my dad was, demanding I sit down and do ALL my homework at the kitchen table. Not allowed to eat a bite of food until I did all of it. I had been bending his rule slightly, about doing all my homework as soon as I got home. Digimon was mental break and snack time, and then I’d start it after.
And of course I completely broke down and couldn’t do anything. I tended to have an hour or more of homework per class, that’s literally the like, recommended amount. 6 classes, PE doesn’t have homework so we can take one away. So 5 hours, and that’s if I don’t have extra shit on top of that mountain.
My mom intervened to be a voice of reason and tried to give me a snack.
I would later go onto learn that a break and a snack are good for people with ADHD. And well obviously I have that, I was gonna talk about Jewish media but I talked about this instead. I’ll do that in a part 2.
The reason it relates to Lunar Moon, is she burns with a similar fury against Nazis and antisemitism. Because hey, what does killing gay people or rounding them up remind anyone of? Gee, what group of people alongside Jews were rounded up in the Holocaust? Yeah, no wonder I started having panic attacks if I watched graphic Holocaust scenes, even fictional ones.
Edit: And the reason I think he did that was to try to keep me from watching TV, because of the Married With Children thing.