Which would bother you more?

[MrFungus420]

A gal here at the University I work at is doing some psychology study, and I thought I would present a few of the questions she had:

You merely need answer which would bother you MORE, even if neither would really bother you.

So, just make up an answer? If those are her instructions, she needs to learn what she is doing.

1. A male relative arriving at a public family event with his male lover, or a female relative arriving at a public family event with her female lover.

2. A male relative arriving at a public family event after transitioning male-to-female or a female relative arriving at a public family even after transitioning female-to-male.

3. Your parents are divorced; Your father reveals he is gay or your mother reveals she is a lesbian.

4. Your parents are divorced; Your father is dating someone your age or your mother is dating someone your age.

I would have to flip a coin for each one. I honestly couldn't care less about any of them.

There were more but they were on different subjects, she required age, sex, income range, race and religion for her participants.

Are the participants allowed to make up the answer to those questions as well?

It was kinda funny, but some of the above were very predictable by race and sex. I thought you guys might find this worthy of some tossing back and forth in here.

More like worth tossing out,

 

[Bonnie1988]

Number 3.
I wouldn't care that much about just a relative so 1 and 2 wouldnt matter. So it'd just be about my parents divorcing. If they did and either were dating someone much younger I wouldn't be troubled. My BF is 5 years older than me, but most people figure I'm only 15 or 16 so see me as his jail bait. He sometimes has fun with that when they do and it is interesting to watch people's reactions.
The gay aspect would just be VERY surprising to me, not as a judgmental thing.

 

[Infinite Chaos]

-- 1. A male relative arriving at a public family event with his male lover, or a female relative arriving at a public family event with her female lover.--

Having a gay brother already - this isn't a problem. If my sister turned out to be lesbian I'd be surprised but not bothered.

-- 2. A male relative arriving at a public family event after transitioning male-to-female or a female relative arriving at a public family even after transitioning female-to-male.--

Not bothered for the reasons above.

-- 3. Your parents are divorced; Your father reveals he is gay or your mother reveals she is a lesbian.--

Although both parents are dead, my mum would surprise me more, she was a bible thumper of the worst kind and when my brother "came out" she spent ages telling him he was now doomed to hell and he was no son of hers etc.
She would read passages of the bible to him to try and "covert" or "save" him and basically never forgave him.

Dad was easy going so it wouldn't matter to me if he had suddenly come out.

-- 4. Your parents are divorced; Your father is dating someone your age or your mother is dating someone your age --

There was a 30 year difference between my mum and dad anyway so this is nothing.

 

[FallingPianos]

1. A male relative arriving at a public family event with his male lover, or a female relative arriving at a public family event with her female lover.

2. A male relative arriving at a public family event after transitioning male-to-female or a female relative arriving at a public family even after transitioning female-to-male.

3. Your parents are divorced; Your father reveals he is gay or your mother reveals she is a lesbian.

4. Your parents are divorced; Your father is dating someone your age or your mother is dating someone your age.

situation 4 is the only one that would bother me at all. but I don't think it would matter whether it was my mom or my dad.