Sikachu said:
Not the nicest way of putting it... But mostly on the button as far as I'm concerned. Now I'm not going to verbally assault our OP but I would recommend growing a backbone. Your 20, 1 year my senior (I'm 19), you should be able to handle this kind of thing given that your now an adult and no longer a little child.
I don't agree with Sikachu that your father would have been disgusted in you. He'd probably be baffled with what you have, might not be Anime savvy or he just might not get why you have a female cartoon character on your pillow and is a tad bit curious about this. Looking it in the sense of "Son? wtf is that?", I don't understand how this would upset you how you wouldn't just shake it off rather than assuming that he thinks your gay. Heck most people here would have probably experienced this with their father at one point or another; when the father here a music style that he's no familiar with or especially likes, See's that you have a movie like "Ong Bak" on and he's not entirely sure why I'd be watching a subtitled movie about a budda head, that or if your watching Anime and he's not familiar with the genre. Heck I even got this look when I asked my father if I could have his permission to fire a rifle in his back yard, the same look I got when I asked if he'd sign a slip so I could become a member of the local Muay Thai club (years ago this was), I don't think either of these actions would be associated with homosexuality... Just more on the lines of "Why would you want to shoot a rifle in the garden" of "What is Muay Thai and why in the hell are you wanting to do this".
All in all I doubt he thinks your gay for having a woman on your pillow. I would assume that he'd in fact think the opposite.
As for your mother... Maybe she feels you like the Vampire genre or on the other hand knows you hate the movies and is doing it as a light bit of taunting... Just shrug that off or counter it with a well placed (but tasteful and in good spirit) insult. You don't drop down crying over it or start whining... Just shrug or even laugh it off. Now if you was 14-16 I'd understand you being upset but your no longer a teenanger, your an adult... You just laugh stuff like this off. Now if it starts to get overly offensive... Then talk your parents and explain that.
Overall none of that implies to me that they think your gay. I don't understand how your father being "Disgusted" with the pillow or your mother making a stab at you about twilight leads you to the conclusion that they think your gay.
Just be an adult and either confront your parents about it and discuss the matter or just simple shake it off. Throwing a tantrum or breaking down crying wont help in anyway what so ever.
Now as for the side question "What do I think about parents who judge their kids" I don't have a problem with parents judging their kids. I don't have a problem with anyone judging me or anyone else. That's their opinions of you, let them judge you based on your actions.
Also I would like to ask, why you have slightly bad parents? Because one made a joke and the other stared at a pillow? How is this in the slightest bit, bad parenting? No a bad parent is the type that beats his/her kid on a daily basis for the fun of it. A bad parent is a parent who goes out and gets drunk, abandoning you in the house at a young age just to get pissed. A bad parent is the type of parent repressed them or neglects them. What you have are normal every day parents that you seem to be whining about because they did what most parents do.
Well I should have read the last page first as you pretty much summed up my entire opinion before I had the chance.Pariah87 said:
Pretty much my exact words when my parent's kept treating me like a child at 18. Though now that I look back at that... That made me more childish than ever. An adult would have just talked it out with them rather than screaming at them like some angry teen.Pariah87 said:
