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To me (rather indirectly), my brother (who is not even a teenager yet) has already showed signs that he is "in the closet." He denied being gay, but his hidden emotions and outright behaviors (according to both himself and his friends) have clearly shown otherwise. They're all trying so hard to hide it from his dad.

My brother may not be gay, but he sure isn't straight like I am. My mom said one year ago, she expects both of us to have babies with our wives. My stepdad is prejudiced (usually doesn't like his kid hearing about LGBTQ+, Black History, or issues related to such), but thank God he is not outright homophobic or racist (i. e., doesn't teach him stuff like "[these people] will burn in Hell" or "[those people] are subhuman/animals"). That said, my brother does use slurs sometimes; though I don't think he gets them exactly from his dad (my stepdad used to call his friends the n-word though; but he stopped doing that for some reason... like a long time ago).

I'm in deep fear that my younger brother will become a "spiritual successor" to Christian Walker.

It's a really weird conclusion, but politics and behaviors do often correlate. I wrote to my dad on Facebook everything that I wrote in my "first" post on here and all he did was reply to me with a black man shooting his shot basketball GIF and saying have a great day and that he loves me... Empathetic gaslighting much?

Sometimes my dad is more of a deadbeat than my stepdad. But he doesn't act as blunt most of the time. He was very blunt when I was a kid and sometimes strict, but I don't think he was on the same level as my stepdad.

Why doesn't my bio-dad take me seriously when I tell him the behaviors of my mom and stepdad?

For some reason the Tinder and Bumble dating apps are barely working out for me. I get matches here and there (on Tinder only, but not so much on Bumble), I almost took my dad's word for it... so I did what he said regarding the pics and I put in the bio that I'm just a chill dude looking for love, looking for a gym partner, and I got around 21 matches total but all of them were either catfishes or real ones reluctant to respond... even though I always wait a day+ to start a chat... so after about four days on Tinder I deleted the account, called my dad, he advised me not to delete it and give up because here's what he said:

that he's watched a show called "love prison" and there are relationships that started after a woman is a week to even two years silent before responding to a text message

I wasn't needy, didn't get too personal, didn't even go with the boring "h-word" greetings as my dad would have suggested I went with, but I asked questions based on bio's and attempted to play emoji character games to determine a movie and etc and still hadn't gotten a response in almost a week or forever really... but that's just Tinder. It's even worse on Bumble, I get a useless catfish match or even hidden likes that I don't even match with and that's with expanding the location to worldwide... I get no likes nearby... and here's the pics my dad suggested using (plus one I decided to use which my dad also liked)

That said I recreated my accounts on dating apps and fared even worse, still got three new-ish matches (still mostly catfish ones) on Tinder but none on Bumble... my dad suggested I wait for as long as possible but for some reason I don't believe my dad when he says that girls wait a year to respond... he said one thing that's true though and that's many girls are looking for a guy like me, I just don't know it yet

but I ended up deleting them again... even as though my dad told me not to worry about the algorithm...