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Published: 2015-07-25 03:32:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 827; Favourites: 20; Downloads: 3
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Helpful art advice for the day: DON'T DRAW A COMIC WITH A CHESSBOARD IN IT! (also ignore how much Pappa changes size in this, haha)I am so SO happy to burst anyone's "Pappa is the perfect father" bubble. He's a very good father, but he's not a perfect man. It seemed to make sense that he would be a homophobe. Since he's the type of man who justifies doing criminal things for the sake of providing or protecting his loved ones, he puts a very high value on the REASON people do things. He can overlook any act as long as it's for reasons that are acceptable to him. But it has never occurred to him that homosexuals are actually people who have no control over who they're attracted to. He thinks they're straight people who are having "unnatural" sex for no good reason. And he can't trust someone who does something for no good reason. But Pappa's worst homophobic crime is the fact that he's never considered his opinions. He was raised to believe that gays were bad, and never questioned that because he never needed to. And it won't be easy to get him to change his mind.
It's very important to me to have this kind of homophobe because I don't feel like they're represented very much, even though I've met far more of the kind of person who is against gays because that's what they were raised to believe than the hateful "kill all the gays" kind. And since the majority of Russians are anti-gay, it seemed too convenient that Vya's family would just accept him right away.
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*huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuug*
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And I can relate to him so much... And by the way, "pedik" is VERY light word for homos that Russians use. Mostly we use the word "pidaras" for them. It's equal to English "faggot".
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Awww, I'm glad 
And thank you very much for the Russian lesson! It's kind of hard looking up swears in other languages, because even though there's an abundance of resources for them, it's hard to tell if you're using them with the right connotation. I kept hearing it both ways with "pedik", some people saying that it was an extremely harsh swear, others saying that it was mostly something dude-bros said to give either other shit (it's sort of hard, cuz in the English language, every swear word can be used for both (except for "cunt" in america for some reason, though I hear it's quite common in uk and ireland), and I don't know how wide-spread that phenomenon is) But thank you again, I'll remember that 
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Oh, and by "him" I meant dad. Yeah. :/
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Yeah, swears are the most important part of any language. But they won't teach you it in school. And Russian swearings in particular can be used for pretty much everything, from rage to joy. And you are right, more than 86% of Russian people don't like gays and others with sexual deviations, sometimes taking it to extreme. In post-Soviet republics the situation is the same.Β
Ah, I've nearlly forgotten... On Cyrillic it will be "ΠΏΠΈΠ΄Π°ΡΠ°Ρ" and "ΠΏΠ΅Π΄ΠΈΠΊ".
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Well I just have to type in "Russian swears" into google, and immediately there's pages of websites devoted to just Russian swears, haha but it doesn't teach you the proper context or connotation to use.
Yeah, it's like that in most places it seems. Like Russia is famous for it, but I think there's only a handful of countries where the gay-positive people outnumber the gay-hater people. Like Korea's bad about it, Ireland's getting better, but I hear it's mostly conservative, I live in Texas which is almost synonymous with "homo-hating"
Thank you for the Cyrillic translation (and for reminding me what the word for "Russian letters" is)
And I'm glad you relate to him. I wanted to make him wrong, but in a relatable way. Because most of the people I know have that problem and it's very hurtful from someone you care about
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man now i wonder how he broke the news and how he got his dad to accept it!
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I like to think that he caught Vya and Simon kissing in a closet or something, and then was furious cuz he thought Simon had seduced his son. I don't know how Vya got him to accept the truth though.
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oh man i bet simon felt sheer terror when he was caught by him. i bet the look on his face was priceless X3
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It also doesn't help that he grew up in Russia.
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Exactly, we're all products of our environments
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Bro, that's exactly what most homophobes I've met are. They were raised that way, so they believe that homosexuals are bad news.
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Exactly, most of the ones I've met are to. My dad was in his late 40's before he actually talked to some lesbians and it dawned on him that gay people are actually PEOPLE. Humans are bad about that though, most of us go through our lives not quite realizing that everyone else is living and has conscious thoughts and feelings and desires just like we do.
But I so rarely see this portrayed in any kind of media. And honestly, it's the hardest kind of homophobia to fight, because it's so deeply entrenched that the people expressing it don't even realize that's what they're doing. I have some friends and family like this and it's just...it's so hurtful.
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I think no one realizes that it exists because no one ever says something. It's just a part of life. And I think that some people subconciously don't want it to go away because it's so familiar.
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Exactly, it's very similar to ingrained racism, I'm certainly guilty of that, thinking and feeling racist things before I even consider how unfair it is
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Well, the first thought is what society has taught you, the second is what you believe.
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