yeah well it finally happened, i got lazy. if my nails are painted, the first thing i do when getting home is clean em off... but last night i was tired and figured i could just do it in the morning. well, of course that backfired immediately - first thing that happens when i leave my room this morning is my dad seeing me heading into the bathroom with bright blue sparkly nails and a bag of cosmetics. he didn't say anything immediately, but has been weirdly sigh-y all day, and just now stuck his head in my room saying he "wants to chat" later today (extremely out-of-character) while being extremely cryptic and evasive about what exactly he wants to talk about.

(for context, although i live in switzerland, my parents are hardcore USA-an tradcaths (the kind who hate the "woke" pope). my dad has voted for trump the last 3 consecutive US elections and will do so again, has trump merch proudly on display in his room, immediately started voting for the far-right immigrant party as soon as he got his swiss citizenship, regularly goes on unprovoked angry diatribes about how much gay people disgust him, etc. you get the picture; he's pretty much the stereotype of the "far right religious nutjob". my mom is almost aggressively unopinionated about most things, and certainly doesn't make any effort to rein my dad ever)

anyway, i'm looking forward to talking with him this evening, i'm sure it'll be great fun! ಠ_ಠ

update: have managed to defer talk until "later"; we'll see where this goes (but i am prepping for a quick exit if necessary). will update again if anything interesting happens

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[–] 22 points 6 days ago* (5 children)

Nail polish does feel pretty easily explainable for the most part. "I was out with some female friends, and they thought it would be fun to paint my nails". Its not a wildly unusual thing even for hetero boys, if anything, it means you have female friends.

Good luck.

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  • [–] [S] 16 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    not a bad idea tbh. unfortunately, young teenage dysphoric+depressed me built up this stupid persona of not having/wanting any friends because "i don't care about anything except programming", and i haven't really been able to rid myself of it in the years since - any mention of me interacting with another person just gets met with sarcastic amusement. will do some brainstorming though and see if i can build that into something plausible...

    thanks

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  • [–] 8 points 6 days ago

    watch out for details, you also have to explain the bag of cosmetics. If they are not convinced (and they won't be, because they already made up their minds) a full room shakedown is on the table.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    the problem is, her dad already made up a story and opinion in his mind. You could say that you painted one nail for every woman you banged last night just to keep count, and he'll still be unmovable in what he KNOWS be the ABSOLUTE TRUTH. I'm sorry op, best of luck, I'm hope you can find someone in EU you can couch surf in this community

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  • [–] 4 points 6 days ago

    Yeah, for any normal person its an easy sell, for a MAGA type, probably not. You'd have to go pretty aggressive on the "Lol, you think nail polish makes me gay? If I was gay I'd far more flamboyant" or something.

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