Buckle your seat belts. This is going to be a long one.

So I was on Facebook earlier today while I was waiting to drive Dad home, and I got to arguing with hоmоphоbes, trаnsphоbes, and other scаrеd little соwаrds. As some of you know, I mostly dictate into my phone rather than typing on those tiny little keys with my fаt fingers. My dad overheard me calling someone a name, and of course, rather than minding his own business, he was all, "Hey, hey, hey!" (You know, because it's not like I'm a grown man or anything.)

Normally, after an exchange like that, he lets it go, but today, he asked me how I would feel if somebody called me a bitcһ. I informed him that I had been called way worse than that by this person, just for being quееr. And as those of you who read my previous update know, Facebook now allows such bullying behavior. He asked me why I would engage with such people, and I responded that such people are now impossible to avoid on Facebook since they changed the community standards.

Now, this sounds like a really calm exchange, but I was losing my temper with him for not grasping the core concept of what was happening, and I sarcastically suggested that I should just delete my Facebook account, and every other online account where people are allowed to bully people like me, and let them win, because that's what he wants.

You know what he said to me next?

"Do you not believe they have freedom of speech?"