On the wins and the bads of life

Kurt: IT’S JUST A ROOM, FINN! We can redecorate it if you want to. 

Finn: OK. Good. Well then, the first thing that needs to go is that faggy lamp and then, we need to get rid of this faggy couch—

Burt: HEY! What did you just call him?

Finn: Oh no, no. I didn’t call him anything, I  was just talking about the blanket.

Burt: If you use that word, you’re talking about him. 

Kurt: Relax dad, I didn’t take it that way.

Burt: Yeah, that’s because you’re sixteen and you still assume the best in people. You live a few years, you start seeing the hate in people’s hearts. Even the best people. [to Finn] You use the “N” word?

Finn: Of course not.

Burt: How about “retard”? You call that nice girl on the cheerios with Kurt, you call her a retard? 

Finn: Becky? No, she’s my friend. She’s got down syndrome. I’ll never call it that’s… cruel. 

Burt: Then you think it’s OK to come in my house and say faggy? 

Finn: That’s not what I meant…

Burt: I KNOW WHAT YOU MEANT! What? You think I didn’t use that word when I was your age? You know some kid gets clocked in practice we’d tell him ‘Stop being such a fag, shake it off’. We meant it exactly the way you meant it. That being gay it’s wrong. That it’s some kind of punishable offense. I really thought you were different Finn. You know I thought that being in Glee club and being raised but your mom meant that you were some… you know… new generation of dude who saw things differently, who just kinda came into this world knowing what’s taken me years of struggling to figure out. I guess I was wrong. I’m sorry Finn but you can’t stay here. 

Kurt: Dad…

Burt: I love your mom and maybe this is gonna cost me her but my family comes first. I can’t have that kind of poison around. [to Kurt] This is our home, Kurt [to Finn]He’s my son… Out in the world you do what you want, not under my roof [to Kurt. Burt looks mad] The place looks great.

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Every dude should be a “new generation of dude”.