reaction to cousin coming out

[Ilovetea82]

So my cousin has come out and I am now unpopular as I didn't make a huge deal of it. To be honest I have no feelings what so ever on the matter but my family doesn't seem to think that remaining neutral in the same way I would if I'd heard she had a boyfriend is acceptable - apparently I should be changing my fb to rainbow flags etc.
Surely treating her as not special is in no way discriminatory and actually treating her like an equal! Aibu?

When my cousin came out I messaged her "your mum says you have a girlfriend, thought I'd better check, you know what she's like" she told me she did and I said she (gf) sounded nice and I'd actually thought she preferred older men

Pretending they don't exist has never stopped a bully. Calling them out and stomping on them, collectively and hard, might.

So you are advocating violence ?

Guess the fuckwits are posting here too

There is a very real danger from liberals who have never experienced racism in their lives inflaming the situation further with well meaning but utterly stupid responses like this.

Drama llamaing and trying to spread panic will not achieve anything. Calm and logical thinking will.

Wrong thread, trafal?

My son came out to close family and friends a couple of years ago, and got exactly the reaction he hoped for which was that it really wasn't a big deal - a few supportive and loving messages but nothing ott
He came out more publicly recently following Orlando and was blown away by how many FB likes he got but other than that nothing has changed and that's how it should be

Wrong thread, trafal?

Yup
I don't feel THAT strongly about not giving a "Coming OuT" gift Honest !! ;)

I would have reacted the same way. It makes no difference what gender one likes - everyone needs to be treated equally! Well done.

Oh op you ANBU x 1,000,000. When my cousin came out, we acted like it was no big deal but explained that we were pleased she was being herself. Because it is just that, no big deal at all. Hopefully your family will come round and realise that your reaction is more appropriate once they've got their heads around it.