Brother Problems..

[Tommer]

There's a certain level of guilt in me at the moment.

Today I was tasked with taking my brother and sister to school and my brother who's 12 through a crying fit about the purple lunch box my mother had left him and how it's going to harm his reputation and make the kids laugh at him.

I asked him whats the big fuss we're late it's just a lunch box c'mon I wear purple hoodies and shirts sometimes and even my friends purple jeans and we don't see it as some big deal, and he starts with this 'well you and all your friends are gay then you don't understand' etc.. Which immediately sparked off in my mind that this was an issue of homophobia.

I'm not gay but I detest homophobia, I told him to man up about it, it's just a colour and if your friends would bully you because of a purple lunchbox they're not your friends.

Anyway he refused to take his lunch box so I've made him go without it and I feel bad about it. I don't know what I should've done in this situation but I didn't want to give into this issue.. Does it make me a bad brother..? idk..