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[ephram_green]

Again, it's a disturbed-looking Ephram in the Nexus. This time he's more angry, but with a side of helplessness. For a while he fidgets near the doorway.

How... he sighs, trying to regain some composure ...how do you deal with someone who angrily and accusingly calls you a "faggot"?

Comments

[jaegermonster]

::looks confused::
I ken't really imagine getting mistaken for firevood or for an old lady...unless the 'mistaken for firevord' vould be in very figurative sense...

I'z missing something, izn't I?

[ephram_green]

Ah, sorry. The term is a negative slang for a man who likes other men sexually. It's a very prejudiced term, and it's hurt me more than I realized it could.

[jaegermonster]

Vell, you and your husband and mebbe your vife could alvays haf nice family bonding experience turning the hurting around on the guy, if you'z into the sort of fun. Unleses the person matters, of course. Does they?

[ephram_green]

The person doesn't matter. It was a random stranger who judged us. As for the family bonding... he blushes but grins a little too ...that kind of exhibitionism might be going too far, though on one level it is an appealing idea.

[jaegermonster]

::Maxim blinks for about half a second because Jaegers consider 'clobbering the bastard' to be quality bonding time, but quickly grins because hey, that idea totally works, too::

I takes every opportunity to scare annoying people vithout direct instructions to the contrary, but I guess that'z not for everyvun. Sometimes it ken even be handy to play up to the things 'everyvun knows' about you even vhen they doesn't know you.

[ephram_green]

It...could be a matter of showing them how happy I am with my choices and my spouses. Even to strangers, so they can know that their opinions only hurt them.

[jaegermonster]

That'd be good. Even better than the showing vould be hafing it qvite so it vas hurting only them. But yah, you being happy vith vay things are iz most important thing.

[ephram_green]

I am happy with the way things are. My spouses are happy with the way things are. I simply would like to be able to display a bit of affection in public without being villainized.

[jaegermonster]

::nods:: Hey, I knows vhat you means. It izn't approved of beck home for Jaegers to try anything vith human girls. And since there'z only vun Jaeger girl, and she izn't interested.....vell, there you goes.

But I'z a leetle confused. If people iz like that vhere you comes from, hasn't this happened before?

[ephram_green]

It isn't the most approved-of for us to be involved with a machine either, but he can pass for human enough that only those who know who he was could tell.

It hasn't happened to me before, which is why it has me so disturbed.

[jaegermonster]

::nods:: You doesn't haf any villages at home vhere it'z a hanging offense, does you? That'z something to vatch out for.

[ephram_green]

Fortunately, no. There have been isolated attacks against people because of their orientation, and those are prosecuted as serious crimes.

[jaegermonster]

Vell, that'z nice, at least. Like I'z said: not fun.