Think older generations are forever set in their ways? Think again! When 57-year-old Scott Kessler’s 26-year-old daughter Vanya first came out to him as a trans woman, the Fox News devotee and self-proclaimed “anti-woke warrior” was initially resistant. But that all changed when, at a family dinner, he referred to her by a profane and, most importantly, female-specific term that everyone in the restaurant could hear.
“It was Mom’s birthday, so we went out for a nice dinner, which, to Dad, means the shitty LongHorn Steakhouse 10 minutes from their place,” Vanya said.”He was complaining about how they fucked up his sirloin and saying that somebody should’ve picked another place. That’s when I said we tried but he wouldn’t listen, and he threw his silverware on the table and yelled, “No, you listen, you fucking bitch!’ I had to go cry some tears of joy in the bathroom. Granted, pretty much the entire floor was covered in piss.”
And just in case anyone thinks he was being performatively chauvinistic, he repeated himself several times over, even when his daughter wasn’t in earshot!
“Right after Vanya had excused herself, Dad kept going on about what an ungrateful bitch she was being,” older brother Colton said. “He was clearly struggling not to misgender her like usual. I swear, towards the end of his rant, I heard him mutter.’Who the hell does she think she is?”
After Scott went to tell their server how he was being generous by tipping eight percent for her ‘unexceptional hospitality,’ matriarch Robyn spoke to her significant other’s ability to still surprise her after more than three decades together.
“When Vanya was growing up, Scott used to call her ‘a weird little fruit’ and say she had ‘better man up and stop crying’ on a weekly basis. So, I certainly wasn’t expecting him to refer to her by the same term he does to me when I ask him to maybe stop spending two grand a month on DraftKings,” Robyn said. “My past few birthdays have been pretty unpleasant for reasons not worth getting into. But at least he’s using his petulance and regressive attitude for some kind of good.”
What an arc! He might not be calling Vanya by her actual name anytime soon, but he’s clearly found room in his heart to be misogynistic and emotionally abusive in a whole new way.