I'm 17M mom is 33F and her friend is 28F

The friend is going through a breakup so my mom told her she could stay with us for a while. I came home last week from a friends house high and a little drunk. Moms friend was on the couch in short shorts and a shirt that showed her boobs. It was stupid of me but like I said I was high and drunk. My mom was asleep so I sat down with her friend and started flirting a little and one thing led to another then we ended up doing it on the couch.

I had a good time but after we were done and I had sobered up I felt bad about it because thats my mom's best friend and yeah. It was shitty of me. The next morning before school the friend came into my room when I was getting ready and she told me not to tell my mom. I thought I would feel good about sleeping with someone my friends would be jealous of but I feel gross since it's my moms friend.

I’m a liberal atheist and I have nothing against the LGBTQ+ community. I have gay friends and I completely believe that being gay is not a choice. I’ve actually been always on the side of the community in any arguments from conservative family or friends.

The controversy surrounding Lightyear’s same sex kiss doesn’t make any sense. To me it’s fine I can watch the movie with my 4 year old daughter and I’m sure she won’t make anything of it. As she grows older she will be asking questions and I’m 100% ready to answer it. I don’t believe any kid will turn gay by watching this and I’m not afraid of it.

My question is why does Hollywood have to go that way anyways. I feel that all productions are going out of their way to include LGBTQ+ content in it. Even though we don’t go out of our way to include handicapped characters, people with Down syndrome.. etc

I’m not arguing I’m genuinely asking what do we gain with including such content in productions and specially in a family movie?

Thanks

(I’m gonna get downvoted as hell 😂)

EDIT: Thanks for all the amazing comments, I respect your arguments and im trying to make sense of life around me just like everyone else. In some way those arguments could help me more in my discussions with conservative people specially the prospective of gays and queers growing up without representation. That’s mainly why i asked this question and it’s great to have wonderful minds like yourselves give me their points of view. Thanks again

EDIT 2: I didn’t mean to be offensive to anyone and i apologize if anyone got the wrong impression from this. On the other hand I’m also seeing a major problem in our society now that anyone with an opposing view is immediately marked as a troll or a homophobic conservative pretending to have no issues with gay people. I’m getting great comments and help from civilized people but some are just plainly aggressive and i don’t see this as a civilized way to have a liberal discussion. The very definition of liberalism is to be open to other people’s points of view and have healthy discussions on topics without labeling people.

EDIT 3: This really blew up, thanks for everyone who responded in a decent manner, I guess I like to pick people’s brains to get a conclusive overview of a topic that helps me come up with my own points of view and have a solid understanding of a subject. There is no way I can respond to all the comments here so I’ll generalize few points.

First of all I do see now how representation could be helpful to queer kids in helping them not feel alone or different

I would have to say now that given the option I would choose to have no sexualization in any way (not heterosexual or homosexual) in a kids’ movie. After all it should just be fun and we can imply love without having PDA. But you guys are right if we have kissing then it doesn’t matter if it’s heterosexual or homosexual.

Lastly I do think that (even though that could be of benefit to society) production companies and big corporates in general are jumping on that train purely for financial reasons, it is trendy, and it’s the current issue and everyone wants to make a buck out of it.

There are numerous studies showing teenagers associating themselves with different identities, sexual orientations and genders to seek attention and empathy. There was a podcast interviewing people who changed their gender as teenagers and now think they did it for the wrong reasons. So just like worrying about queer kids being isolated we should worry about kids that might get too excited about something without fully understanding themselves. There is a famous YouTuber who once made a video wondering if he was successful because he REALLY IS or because he is black and being given a special treatment. Sometimes when societies push for a change forcefully it could have an inverse effect in a way or another and that’s why I believe we should have a delicate balance.

Thanks again to all the wonderful comments and I wish I can answer every one of you. And for people who just decided to throw some insults. Sorry if that was too offensive. I still believe we need to discuss all our issues openly if we want to advance as a civilization.

And YES we need more representation for people with all kinds of disabilities

I'm not sure if this is just me, but whenever a Christian shows that they don't like the act of LGBTQ+ they get a lot of hate for it. Whenever a Muslim does the same thing though, they don't get the same treatment.

This is something I have struggled with and wondered about most of my life. Ever since I can remember, in school, work, any social gathering, it seems like black girls treat me poorly and are really rude with me right off the bat, never interested in becoming friends, always ready to talk about me, for sincerely no reason that I can fathom. I'm a white female born in 93 if any of that matters. These girls don't seem to treat ALL the white girls around them the same as they do me, but its always me, 90% of them. I'm wondering if there is something that black girls just hate automatically about me? Like for no reason? I'm a nice person, i get along with everyone, it just has persisted literally from middle school to now, in every work place, and I'm trying to figure out what it is. I don't mean to sound racist or rude or anything like that, I'm just genuinely wondering what I'm doing wrong. I only say girls because I don't seem to have the issue with males.

Americans are the biggest group, but they aren't the majority. You have a higher chance of writing to someone from any other country as Americans are about 44% of users. So there's a 56% chance that someone you write to is not American.

Grew up lower middle class in a Midwest rust belt town. Stayed close to my hometown. Went to a regional college, got my MBA. Worked hard (not in a preachy sense, it's just true, I work very hard.) I paid off roughly $70k in student loans pretty much dead on schedule. I have long considered myself a Progressive, but I now find myself asking... WHAT WILL I GET when these student loans are waived? This truly does not seem fair.

I am in my mid-30’s and many of my friends in their twenties and thirties carrying a large student debt load are all rooting for this to happen. All they do is complain about how unfair their student debt burden is, as they constantly extend the payments.... but all I see is that they mostly moved away to expensive big cities chasing social lives, etc. and it seems they mostly want to skirt away from growing up and owning up to their commitments. They knew what they were getting into. We all did. I can't help but see this all as a very unfair deal for those of us who PAID. In many ways, we are in worse shape because we lost a significant portion of our potential wealth making sacrifices to pay back these loans. So I ask, legitimately, what will I get?

Im from south korea and currently traveling europe. I sleep in a hostel, which has a communal shower and communal toilet.

I was shocked when i found out that the shower head here hangs above my head, and is unable to move.

Because, in south korea, we dont have fixed-sprinkler-kind of shower. Our showerheads can be held in hand and move around(kind of like a fancy hose)

Plus the toilet here has no bidet.

Which made me wonder, how do europeans wipe their butts in these situations? It seems impossible to..

I’m not talking about harassing a fat person. But like why do we have to pretend it’s beautiful (aware beauty is objective but a minority of the world population finds obesity beautiful) so it seems silly to pretend

I want to preface this by saying that I'm not making a statement either way on Musk, X, or politics. I also understand that Reddit leans left and the people generally get more engaged at times when there is a transfer of power. I have just noticed that subs I go to that are completely non-political and get minimal engagements are suddenly overwhelmed by Musk posts and have 10ks of likes. It strains credulity to believe that this is all driven by normal user engagement.

Drag is traditionaly men impersonating women (a group of people that was repressed a lot in history) One might think that white ppl impersonating a black person( another group of people that was repressed a lot in history) would be ok also.

I have somewhat of a unique problem.. I decided to go back to earn my master's a little over a year ago because my job is reimbursing me for part of the tuition. The workload is very taxing so I don't have much of a life between studies and my equally burdensome 9 to 5.. Additionally, I have endometriosis which makes sexual contact physically painful.

As a consequence I haven't had sex in nearly three years.. In my last relationship this was by far my favorite thing. Without it I can't even orgasm. I know that there are men out there who enjoy this, but they usually want something in return and I hate giving blowjobs.

There's a lesbian in my master's program that clearly has a crush on me. I gave a bad presentation once because anxiety and she told me what a great job I did before nervously hurrying away. She waits to leave before I'm ready so she can hold the door open. Also found me on Instagram and always responds to my reels.. This seems like a sure thing. Most lesbian couples I see are masculine paired with feminine and she seems more like the former. I'm not gay but I honestly just want someone to eat me out. Is it gay if we have this kind of arrangement? She practically worships me so I doubt I'll need to do much convincing. Also I could tolerate some kissing and touching.

Why aren't Europeans doing a massive anti-Russia campaign or blaming its people for the war? So much anger and hate for Americans not giving money or weapons. Why aren't you guys as mad at Russians or Belarusians for their complacency. Obviously we can't say ALL Europeans but the anti-American minority/majority is SO loud online. It makes no sense to me. I was talking to some international friends in our lounge at my college and they really couldn't answer. Someone said you can't blame the people for its leaders. Yet we seem to do that a lot to Americans.

Even now. The top pined thread in the ask Europe subreddit is about how you can air your grievances about US. Not about how the EU is or isn't doing enough or the response. Not about the involvement and grievances with Russia. Or the China of it all. It is just strange. I was going to add this to r/AskEurope but I think it is not allowed

Hi all. I remember 1 kid was working with another kid for a middle school project. He had to go to the other kid's house. He later tells me that there are paintings of nude women posted all around the house. I understand now that that kid was likely growing up in a nudist household.

But is that a good idea? Won't he misunderstand social cues? I remember 1 time in class when that same kid was kind of adjusting his erection in class without hide it and me and the other kids near me saw that.

Overall, I have been short and skinny with a healthy BMI my entire life. 4 years ago in college, I was doing intermittent fasting and lost like 12 lbs. When my pediatrician asked what happened to lose weight, I proudly said that I stopped eating sugar and started IF.

Imagine my surprise when he kind of shouts at me to stop whatever I am doing and repeats to just stop and stop it. He explains that I am young and should not be losing weight.

Since then, I have always asked other doctors and nurses about my weight. They always say that my weight is healthy and don't need to lose it. Just continue to get exercise and eat healthy. Once, a nurse said she had my weight?? A month ago, my dr mentioned that I need to gain weight??

But I am still skinny fat. Like I don't have abs and I surely have a high body fat percent lmfao. I have no idea if there is so much confusion because I live in majority-overweight America or because I spent too much time on social media...

So, should I not lose weight because all the medical profs say so? I find this all so strange. How common is this for others?

So first, let me just start up by saying that I do not support ICE at all. I think their tactics are mean and aggressive, and they commit flagrant human rights abuses. That being said, I see a lot of people saying things like “No human being is illegal” and “illegal immigrants welcome”.

Now, I don’t particularly care about illegal immigration, and I don’t think it’s as big of an issue as the right makes it out to me. But at the same time, I do recognize that there are a lot of illegal immigrants in the U.S. and while I might not personally be affected by them, certain people and certain industries undoubtedly are.

As far as I know, no country in the world allows illegal immigration.

Saying things like “no human being is illegal” makes it seem like the left wants completely open borders, which is a common (and false) smear tactic of the right.

So what does this phrase actually mean? Is it really just as simple as that?

"Incel" means involuntarily celibate, so a person who wants to have sex but for one reason or another. However, when arguing with a man people will often call him an incel even when he has sex regularly. Why is that?

This is embarrassing, but last week I [22F] made friends with an extremely attractive [24M] guy, and today all of a sudden I can’t stop thinking about him and feeling extremely aroused. I masturbated in hopes that it would clear my thoughts and prevent me from impulsively saying anything to him, and I felt better for about 30 minutes after I orgasmed, but now I just feel turned on all over again and I don’t even want to message him back because I just want to ask inappropriate questions. He is not attracted to me so there’s no chance of him reciprocating anything which I wish would stop me from feeling this way. Why is this happening? I feel like a man.

I know is a typical question, informed myself but im not conviced
What out grandfathers did in the past is not our fault, im an artist andi often ask art help online like discord servers, and i see white racism is very common, i love equality, and with equality i mean all. but getting banned muted etc, in discord servers, and "friendly art websites" just because i find racism against white is also a bad thing is sad.

I heard reddit is similar so i hope someone can give me a real explanation because im tired with the answer "white people did bad things in the past", they maybe did but i didnt.

I wont get mad or comply i want a convincing answer why are people allowed to be racist against white.

Another School shooting!! In a primary school. How on earth do Americans believe guns are good? I just don’t see the argument.

I don't know why, but I don't believe people when they say that they shower every day or twice a day.

I try to shower every other day, but it's more of like a "when I feel like it" type of thing. It's not a good habit, but I guess college has caused me to be lazier

edit: I'm not saying we should shower like once a week, but I feel like people who shower every day have like some sort of OCD or something. Or maybe I'm just a lazy blob.

Critical Race Theory, or CRT, is an academic and legal framework that denotes that systemic racism is part of American society — from education and housing to employment and healthcare. Why take this type of argument away from schools?

If there is proof of such issues.. what makes you not like it?

I'm a Male and was in an emergency situation. A bomb threat at a bank. Why do women get evacuated before men? Ain't we supposed to be equal?