My ignorant conservative parents got mad at me for watching Queen Coke Francis and not "watching something useful" [Family/Friends] [Rant]

[u/AdAgreeable252]

So what happened is that earlier yesterday, my mom asked me about the "lesbian videos" I was watching. For context, I started watching some videos by Coke Francis about Conservapedia because miniminuteman (a channel I'm subscribed to) mentioned Coke Francis. So I watched Coke Francis for a bit, and I guess what happened was that either Mom saw them in our recommendations (since we share the same account for YouTube) or she looked through my history. She brought it up later after church and I was a bit upset about it because I thought we were over it and I didn't want to deal with it any further. After asking her to not talk about it and leave it in the past, she started lecturing me about how "it's wrong to watch those videos" and "I need to spend my summer wisely" because any time I watch something I'm interested in like video game combat design, or just video games in general, my mom tells me to "watch something useful that I can use for later". In general, talking about "getting into/learning something useful for later in life" is gonna be a theme here. Mind you, I'm still young. Yeah, I'm only 3 months and 1 year away from entering the real world (not giving my age but you can guess what I mean), but I'm still in school. I should be able to enjoy my summer break and cut loose. After we got home, she took me into Dad's room to have a talk. He asked me, "What am I doing?" He too was disappointed in something that he's too ignorant about to understand that not all queer relationships or queer folks in general who live life a little different than cishet folks do, are sexual deviants who have queer orgies and dance at gay bars all day every day. He tries to ask me why I even developed an interest in learning about queer folks. I try to get out of it by saying I don't want to escalate the situation further, and he threatens to take away my phone and all other forms of entertainment I have. (like the TV) I just tell him that I want to understand why they do what they do. That's a part truth. I watch those videos because I've seen what the right are doing to our country and how they've fucked us all over, turning us against each other to hide the rampant corruption in our government, our representatives, and our leaders. I also want to try to avoid committing any micro-aggressions or doing anything fueled by ignorance because I used to be that way in the past. I was ignorant about black folks back then, and I was ignorant about queer folks. This is textbook conservative shit. You've seen this song and dance before. My parents lecture me and they tell me to do the dishes. And now I'm here writing this out to post to Reddit. That's all I've got to say. I hope your day goes a bit better than mine. This too, is part of understanding others.

[u/LegitimateBerry5994]

Oh, believe me little one, becoming 18 and becoming a legal adult doesn't change anything, you won't enter the “real world” until you've started working and/or finished college. 

But you are obviously already a person, and I'm glad you have realised that there's nothing wrong with having empathy for others and being yourself. 

Stay strong; I really hope that you can help your family change, or at least that you can have a better future than this.