r/FacePalm - Fellas, is it Gay to be Straight? 🌈 

ngl, being straight sounds pretty gay

Yes sending your kid to a wilderness camp is a thing in the US. And the amount of abuse in those are as high as you would expect.

“Wanting a strong woman is a sign of homosexuality” Me, a lesbian: *You’re damn right*

Being straight makes you gay. Being gay makes you straight. Being ace makes you a cosmic horror that mere mortals dare not whisper the name of, lest they go mad from the chorus of a thousand silent voices whispering dark secrets of infinite knowledge.

"Didn't he kill all the firstborn sons in Egypt?" I almost died from laughing and that is now my go-to argument. That man deserves a medal.

Yeah, it's gay to be straight. You could say that it's... straight up gay.

Fun fact. Even the lady who originally invented gender reveal parties is horrified by what they have become. She just wanted to have a fun little party and thinks what they’ve become is awful.

12:45 the woman who popularized gender reveal parties regrets doing so because of all the stupid shit people do with them. (She had hers done because it was a celebration of her finally being able to have a kid so they were even just excited to get to the point where they could tell the gender)

Fun fact: ancient Roman and Greek statues used to be very colorful indeed! They were painted in all possible hues, usually accurate (to real people) or imaginative (for mythical characters, gods and goddesses). The paint was removed by buttheads in the 17th-19th centuries because they thought the paint remnants was "dirt" (and in some cases because of racism). That said, Cleopatra probably looked like someone from Turkey or southern Iran, and wasn't black. Also, Julius Caesar probably looked more like Roberto Benigni than Ralph Fiennes. 😆

As a trans woman, I can confirm that I am indeed gay for wanting a muscular woman to pick me up and kiss me

That "didn't he kill all the first born sons in Egypt" comment absolutely murdered me, and I'm a last born daughter.

“Timmy, you’re gonna be feral for a week!” The kid wishes he were just being feral for a week. Heat exhaustion, little or no medical care, insufficient food, isolation, emotional abuse, and overwork, for weeks or months. They are absolutely horrible people, and they need to investigate the dad. “I didn’t know” doesn’t fly.

Ok the arrest of the autistic girl really pissed me off.. As someone who's an autistic girl. I can confirm we sometimes awkwardly find ways to relate to people in uncomfortable situations. If relating the police officer to get lesbian aunt was how she could make herself more comfortable. In a clearly uncomfortable situation... I just.. it gets under my skin

The 9/11 challenge is a tribute to the firefighters who had to run up that amount of stairs in order to save people. To feel just a tiny bit of what they went through that day. It's not about running down stairs or getting away.

Story behind the Elf on the Shelf: girl’s mom is the nurse manager, and her coworkers did “surgery” (sewed the arm back on) to make the little girl feel better, and took silly photos and videos.

37:42 Are you serious? If being pro life isn't about after birth care, then it shouldn't be called pro-life. More like anti choice. Edit: Apparently it's called being "pro birth" for some reason, because having a different view than others about caring for children is WAY too empathetic and moderate for these people.

About that lady talking about banning abortion, my response would've been as such: "Everything happens according to God's plan, right? Therefore, if His plan is to have a baby aborted, then the baby is aborted, no exceptions."

It always seems like those family RU-vidrs always turn out to be absolute monsters

On the subject of inherited tattoos: I though it was an AMAZING idea for a Sorcerer Subclass for D&D where their bloodline power comes from the long history of the inherited tattoos of their people. But not just tattoos, scars as well by the paren't up until their birth. So there's some variations involved. The plot hook is; This particular sorcerer has inherited a demon's brand and is trying desperately to remove it before having their own children and passing git down. Perhaps they got it from their parent? And it's been in their family for a few generations, which allows for a Warlock subclass tie-in. I love this idea and will be building a coffeelock for it ASAP.

I was getting an iron infusion(a shorter lasting one because insurance is garbage) and I hear that a nurse is concerned about a patient that is hypercalcemic (calcium too high) and he's at an 11.4 The insurance wouldn't cover medicine until it was at a 12. She almost was begging the guy to pay the price(which was a lot) then she said "we will see where he is tomorrow and keep charging for blood tests until it costs more than the medicine" to another nurse. Like doctors shouldn't have to go to war with insurance to get the help they believe a patient definately needs. She legit seemed scared for the man's life. That scares me with my parents.... They almost CUT healthcare for the elderly not two weeks ago.

"Lol, I don't have preferred pronouns" Why do I suspect that they'd become unreasonably violent if you misgendered her.

The Ruby Franke case is horrific, and it should be noted that she is wrapped up with the therapist Jody Hildebrant, who runs an "addiction" center that punishes men for masturbating (convincing the wives to withhold affection if they "fall off the wagon.") Other little nuggets: when Ruby's SIX-YEAR-OLD daughter forgot her lunch, she refused to bring one to the school and even taped herself saying that she hoped no one else would step up and give the kid food, because she needed to learn "consequences." She also canceled Christmas for two of her younger children because of their "egregious" behavior. For more, look up Mormon Stories Podcast and Jesse Hildebrant's (nibling of Jodi) story. Oh, yeah, and until her arrest, Jodi Hildebrant (whose basement Ruby's kids escaped from) was the go-to therapist for upper-echelon Mormons. It's quite the case and still ongoing (this is actually my field of work, so I've had to dive deep into it).

on the cancer thing, i had a friend that would frequently have swollen joints she was 17, i was in 19 i became like a big sister to her, i convinced her to go see a doctor when she next had a flare up, she took my advice but was kinda nervous so i went with her, they gave her some pills to help with the swelling thinknig it was early on set arturitus fast forward 3 years she had a kid at 20 and after the birth her white cell count dropped to dangrously low levels, the doctors didnt know why she ended up having to be isolated an a whole battery of test run, after 2 weeks thay came back with a diagnosis of lupis, they explained that it was likely what was causing her inflamed joints and it had become agressivly active with the hormonal changes during pregnancy, sadly she died a couple years ago, i couldnt go to her funeral cause of covid and i still miss her very much.

2:04 oh it gets worse Cliccy... Rose has other children who TRIED to get their siblings away from her and Rose's OWN siblings knew about her abuse and did NOTHING because "it wasn't their place to interfere with her parenting"

"My daughter got a B" [so I removed what she needs to study and do homework] Facepalm indeed

"Didn't [God] kill all the first-born sons in Egypt?" Best comeback EVER.

38:46 thats so dumb. I lost my grandmother to stage four cancer and there are people like that in this world. I dont like humanity

on 36:38 : bbw is an acronym for big beautiful woman so this guy essentially just said the equivalent of "i want a woman with orange hair BUT NO GINGERS!!!" lmao

Liking women - is more gay than liking men right now. Fellas, love for the homies. Love for everyone

The "women should have the final say on having children" lady was in a discussion about abortion & she meant that women should have the ultimate say on whether they want to be pregnant. :) It wasn't phrased well and out of context it looks bad, but she wasn't actually saying that a woman should have all the children she wants without her husband's input lol

25:38 I'm an extra in a movie, I was playing a pregnant woman and got a fake stomach. to move like the real thing, those are pretty close to it in weight and texture, and BOY that gets heavy when you're carrying it all day! I kept my hands on/around it all the time I was walking because it's way easier that way, and I suspect real pregnant ladies do it too

I'm beginning to think my boyfriend might be the straightest guy I know. Because I'm gay AF... 😁🏳️‍🌈😂

Ok. So Wilderness Discipline camps are VERY bad. Those are the places that you can pay to kidnap your kid and treat them poorly to "scare them straight" either literally for LGBTQ or figuratively for "troubled teens" who can be anything from druggies to kids who's parents found out they mastribate. Also, the Ruby Franke situation is horrible the kids were in the house with the family "therapist" who's MO is duct taping kids, giving them zero privacy( even in the restroom) and trying to convince them that "God told her" they are horrible people, have done horrible things, and that she needs to make the punishments worse until they "confess" to the things she is imagining them doing. She alao likes to convince wives to leave their husbands and uses societal blackmail to sfop people from coming out. She breaks people. And the Mormon church was reccomending people to her and even paying for their tratment. Super crazy messed up sfuff.

So about those Roman marble statues... they used to paint them to look more like actual human colors. but Paint doesnt last thousands of tears fully intact.

31:40 i can agree. my mother is a teacher and sometimes came home crying from what some kids did. they deserve better pay

A certain gay man codified how computers would work. And he would probably do a lot more if his balls weren't destroyed, leading to him offing himself

okay since the creepy landlord one is super gross, I'd like to share a similar story of mine that turned out to be really wholesome. I kept having notifications when i woke up that someone had been lurking at my front door in the middle of the night for several hours nearly every night (i dont have ring premium so i couldnt check the footage after the fact). so, being reasonably freaked out, i stayed up a couple nights watching the live security feed to catch them in the act. And I did - my mystery nighttime lurker is a pair of stray cats who for some reason like to chill right on my front doorstep and roll around. I've started leaving treats out for them every once in a while now that i know theyre there.

Finally, a pride flag for the most overlooked group in the LGBTQ community: the Bee Movie fans

30:10 I was gonna say, “a large portion of Bethesda RPGs, now including Starfield, for one thing.”

In Ireland the F slur means cigarettes and has nothing to do with gay people. Interesting how different regions are so extremely different.

yeah, no, ruby frankie is a genuinely terrible person. her 6YO didn't pack her lunch one time and she said that she hoped the teachers didnt feed her. her eldest son was sent to live in the wilderness for months because he **pranked his younger brother**

I still can't get over the gender reveal that killed one of the grandma's of the soon to be born child. Gotta love accidental pipe bombs.

There absolutely ARE wilderness discipline camps -- and I have a story to share! My brother was sent to one of these places as an adult (threatened with homelessness unless he agreed to go, I think). This wasn't one of the horrific residential schools for 'troubled teens' that you hear about, and I didn't hear of anything untoward going on (thank frick; kids sent to other places are NOT so lucky), but conditions there were still no joke. This place is based in the centre-westish US, fully out in the desert; bear in mind that we live in temperate, rainy Europe. (This means that, although we did our share of camping as kids, desert wildlife, desert heat, and carrying your own water for the day are not things we're used to.) The attendees, mostly teens, were hiking all day and either camping or returning to the headquarters building. My brother is chronically ill; this was the 'behavioural issue' that the individual who sent him here hoped they would fix. My brother sleeps and rests a lot, and all this hiking was nothing like the low level of activity he was used to. He struggled with the early rising and relatively (not abusively) short sleeping times. There was other batshittery that I won't go into now, because this place incorporated therapy sessions and you might have intuited from the above that the person who sent him there is not the most in touch with reality. That person fed the camp counsellors a load of horse apples about what was 'really' wrong with my brother. Thank goodness they contacted other family members to get a less delusional view of the situation and did not go through with that person's plan of brainwashing my brother into a very detrimental financial deal. My brother struggled a great deal with the activity level and conditions, as I mentioned, but to give the staff their due, I don't believe they were completely inflexible about this. (Again, could have been much worse...) This camp had a kind of narrative for the attendees to follow so that they would 'graduate' at the end, with a ceremony at which they got awarded their 'spiritual names' or whatever and congratulated. I can see this being motivational for deprived and neglected kids who have never received this kind of individual attention from adults, or been made to feel they succeeded at anything. My brother, however, came home and -- shocker!! -- continued to be chronically ill. In my view, the biggest weakness of the progam was that there is no period of rehabilitation that could have incorporated the increased exercise and routine into an attendee's real life once they got back from the desert, and so as soon as my brother got home, he fell right back into his old pattern and none of the changes stuck. He still doesn't eat dried fruit and nuts because they remind him of the trail rations.

3:51 i love her "oh shit." moment

Lol, I had basically the same reaction as Clicky-Wicky to the question "What good do LGBTQ people do for society?" As an LGBTQ* person: I immediately thought: "Well, I work, I pay the salary of an apprentice in their final year worth of taxes and social insurance and I do voluntary youth work. Do you do any voluntary work for your community?" 😂

I'm gonna just advocate for these gender reveal parent this time. They HIRED a pilot to fly over and let out smoke or whatever. The pilot and whoever owned and was responsible for the maintaining the plane are the ones at fault. This would have happened regardless of what he was hired to do. The couple had no way of knowing that one of the wings would basically fall off. You can't blame this on the gender reveal phenom. This is a horrible case of workplace negligence that killed a pilot. The owner of the service will likely be dealing with this legal issue for a while.

Congratz on surpassing the evil triangle woman in subscribers, you're the bigger man now! (sorry if i brought that topic back again, i just wanted to congratulate)

I'm pretty sure the whole birth in cemetery thing, could count as desecration of a grave.

I have a guy friend who's Ace, and he is probably the safest guy I've ever met. Not just because he's kind and caring, but also because he's incredibly respectful. He would walk female-presenting people around my university's campus late at night (he even did it for me once or twice). Whenever he did this, he always kept his distance to make sure we felt comfortable with him there. I actually had a lot of conversations with him about safety around campus. He knows a lot because he has an older sister, and he cares enough to learn from female-presenting people as to how he can be better as a person.

the metaverse house guy baffles me. Imagine spending 300k on what amounts to a minecraft house.

12:42 fun fact, if I recall correctly, the woman who started gender reveal parties did so because she had previously had a few miscarriages so the party was to celebrate that one had finally lasted long enough that you could tell what sex it was and is horrified of what the trend she started has become

38:50 Dinosaurs got cancer.

To add on the the tattoos on the woman who lost weight (good on her btw): if you have a tattoo and you lose weight, the tattoo will shrink along with your skin thus, becoming “darker” since it’s not as spread/stretched out.

As a non-binary bean it's pretty fun to have someone ask "what can I call you that isn't sister but is similar...?" to just have to think about it for a minute before coming up with Sibling... XD we really don't think about non-gendered terms that often...

26:30 reminds me of years ago on a bright winter's day with sunlight beaming from the sky and reflecting dazzlingly off the frost on the ground, I was wearing shades and a woman asked me *"why are you wearing sun glasses when it is cold?"*

40:57 no because the possibilities for just absolutely wild family stories are just endless with this one. „Oh, the tramp stamp there? It was actually in 1794 when your grandpa, the great sailor Dave, set out on sea and got lost, so they were just sailing around and looking for land, when suddenly, in the middle of the darkest night, they heard a stag roar. This guided them back to land safely, where they found plenty of fresh water and food, and as a memorial for that, he got this tattoo once they reached their final destination, to commemorate the gorgeous antlers of their saviour“ Absolutely not was it a drunk decision by your parents back in 2002

To answer Click about what started gender reveal parties: The first gender reveal party was celebrated by a woman had had multiple miscarriages. When she finally carried a pregnancy far enough to see the gender, she was so happy she threw a party to reveal its gender. It wasn't intended to be a gender reveal, it was celebrating the fact her baby didn't die. But other people saw this party and liked it and started doing it to reveal their babies' genders. The woman's child is nonbinary and their mother, who started this to begin with, regrets ever having the party and wishes people would stop doing them.

I had to go to one of those "camps" once. It was more of a Christian education camp than wilderness survival, basically spending all day memorizing the bible and doing boring activities. Kinda turned off to religion. Looking back I remember how sus a lot of the consolers were to some of the kids.

12:27 honorable mention to the El Dorado Wildfire. Turns out that pyrotechnics and dry weather don't exactly mix well

Imagine being born with badass tattoos instead of having to pay to get tattoos

American healthcare is basically “pay us a shitload of money, and we’ll do our very best not to pay for your healthcare.” Healthcare companies look for any possible way not to pay for the service *you* pay *them* shitloads of money for

5:45 forget loan sharks that's a loan Megalodon

8:05 - We might need that today, for the thickheads who think it is "No Big Deal" 🤣

12:14 Last week, my brother and his fiance had a gender reveal for their second baby. It was a neat little scavenger hunt where they'd find notes with riddles written on them that would tell them where to look next, until eventually they find the confetti popper that reveals the gender. It's possible to make gender reveals exciting and fun that doesn't involve high-explosives.

Ever since DaddyOfFive, it just seems like the parent(s) on every family channel turn out to be the most abusive individual(s) that the world has ever seen

24:00 a good example for this is also the word "hell". In german, it means a light colour and in a certian slang it means smart/intellegent (someone is "helle")

28:10 - sounds like the lion's aim was off - wrong person got scalped.

There was also the whole “I pranked my brother by saying we’re going to Disneyland/Disney World, so Mom and Dad took my bed from me for several months” issue

12:14 imagine being a kid and finding out someone died because your parents revealed your gender assigned at birth 💀

17:49 Yeaaah the carrot js the best way to motivate me honestly

39:28 nono, they're mater from cars; they're driving backwards.

I know that weight loss post is like five years old now but it still baffles me that people have such a hard on to hate a feelgood post that they forgot mirrors exist.

petition for click to produce some plushies with scented beads inside so everyone buying them is now guaranteed to smell really nice

18:26 Twitter is taking some of this language difference and not understanding it too far tbh (and no I'm not just saying that bc I stan SB19, it's bc I'm sick of it, but also bc of that)

At 2:45 there is evedince that suggests that the marble (and maybe also bronze) statues were painted. Academics call it polychromy.

I'm from Utah and haven't heard of that first terrible situation which is kinda terrifying... P.S. My mom keeps joking that we should be a RU-vidr family, now I'm more against it than ever💀

The 9-11 stair climb challenge is about recognizing what the first responders did to save those stuck in the buildings. I still think it feels a bit weird, but there is a more wholesome/respectful reason behind the challenge.

34:26 Yes, very. Mutation, not inflammation. Imagine a dodgeball. Inflation is that ball being blown up too much. Mutation is it becoming a landmine. P.S. I mixed up inflammation and inflation on purpose. This is because I don't think cells can be inflamed. I could be wrong, but I believe that's a different issues. Reasoning: I don't think human cells can change their size that drastically. If I'm wrong, tell me, and I'll correct it.

41:36 things that are not about DID but should be

the story at 17:10 reminded me of this... My former mother used to always be excessively strict when it came to my image (she was also abusive and neglectful, but that's a different story), especially when it came to school. Throughout all of my school years, from elementary on up, I would get Honor Roll. I averaged all A's and B's constantly. But if I had a B on something, she'd tell me, "There's no reason for that to not be an A." If I got an A, it was "You already got the A, so it should be 100%." When it came to sports (I did a metric f*ck-ton of sports, extracurricular activities, and volunteer work), and there would be an award ceremony, she'd always say how I got "cheated out of" different awards (yes, I did get awards. Yes, my room was covered in medals, trophies, and certificates. Yes, she would say she was proud of me when I got awards. But she always made a point of letting me know that what I got wasn't quite enough). I don't even remember if she ever praised me for getting a perfect grade before. As an adult, I don't speak to her anymore, and I'm pretty sure she was just jealous of me and taking out her feelings on me. "Sometimes our best isn't good enough" is something I remember her often saying whenever I said I tried my best in something.

My favorite thing right now is the amount of mods for Baldur's Gate 3 to turn male companions female, so gamerbros who are into them for their personalities can romance them without "feeling gay" lmao

1:02 BRUH THE KID CRAWLED OUT THE WINDOW WITH HIS WRISTS TAPED.

28:26 “partner”, “spouse”, “significant other”, & “mate”.

Quick note; BBW stands for "big, beautiful women." It is meant to stand for women who are on the larger side. Curvy, thick, thicc, chubby, or even what would be considered just plain "fat." So, by saying "no bbw women," the guy is saying he wants a woman on the thinner side. It also means he is inadvertently saying "no big, beautiful women women."

"hi you little dumb dumb, did you know the world stretches farther than your local Wal-Mart" is the funniest take down I've heard recently, I snorted coffee. Thank you for the laugh !

Fun fact: The Island of Negros is named after Negritos, a dark-skinned, Filipino ethnic group that is seen to be the first people to have reached the Philippine archipelago, long before the Europeans settled in the Americas and bringing African slaves. Two more groups came to the archipelago after that called the Indones and the Malay (I forgot which came first). Not sure how they might be related to Indonesians and Malaysians.

8:31 I think that they were trying to make the fathers understand how much it took to bring their child into the world, therefore helping the father bond w/ the child. Cause I’m pretty sure that’s what happens w/ women in childbirth; more natural childbirth -> better bonding/understanding of the tiny life. I also read somewhere that women who have children through c-sections and/or epidurals/painkillers have less of a bond/deeper understanding of their child-I would research the accuracy of that statement, but I have a sh!t ton of homework and not enough time to do it lol

When I was 15, I wanted to melt some butter so that it was spreadable. So I microwaved it. In its package. Made of foil. I put the microvawe on. Glanced at it a couple of moments later - and there was a huge FLAME inside. Boy did I scream, and my dad came to the resque. But the microvawe still worked which is The most amazing part for me! (Please don't experiment though)

Wait-- we're allowed to do dangerous gender reveal parties, but not get abortions? What I'm hearing here is that the world cares MORE about unwanted, unborn fetuses than actual, living and breathing people with lives and loved ones. I am SO GLAD that Journey was listed as a game that rewards kindness. Abzu also does that, and I think Flower almost does, too.

23:39 - Should read 'Woman steals money to become single' .

20:05 Seriously, am I the only one (who doesn’t speak Spanish as a first language) who discovered it was a word in Spanish before learning it was a slur in English?

I once walked with my friend and we were holding hands. I released my hand because i needed to tie my shoe, and i was watching how she continued to walk forward and tooked some womans hand to hold. These 5 seconds were magnificent until this woman said "hello" to her My friend was pretty angry at me

As a “straight” person with a girlfriend I see being straight as an absolute win.

36:33 what a wonderful start to a wonderful relationship that is absolutely going to happen

20:10 How I would have a SMM handle this. Rules: 1. Don't use curse words or slurs. 2. Don't use words you wouldn't individually use at church. 3. Make them cry.

Those wilderness camps are also known under "troubled teen industry" if you're interested in that topic. It's actually a thing. Lots of teens who are now free are speaking about their experiences, there are documentaries and even movies and some kids even died trying to escape.

40:05 What was even funnier about the whole imposter at the catwalk incident was that, when he finally got chased and tackled, people still thought it was part of the show and clap cheered.

10:53 this actually made me exclaim "what!" and pause everything I was doing

This reminds me of when I was practicing reading for my B’nei mitzvah, one of the words was pronounced “sh*t”, and ofc I had to read it. A few lines later I burst out laughing, followed by my tutor.I really enjoyed that lesson.

29:30 - You seem upset at the "9/11 challenge" but you're misunderstanding it. It's even clarified in the comments of the reddit post. The challenge is to *CLIMB UP* that many stairs, like the fire fighters did that day. Yes, the name is absurdly cringe, but it's apparently somewhat common for firefighters to train by doing just that already.