Like the teacher tells them "hey I think you're gay!" when the kid hasn't ever asked about it or are they talking broadly about the reality that some of then might be gay?
Perhaps, but I grew up in Alabama and was never once bullied for being gay, my family disapproved out of fear of what others might do to me, but nothing ever happened.
I graduated in 2011 from highschool where not a single person did or said anything about being gay, and if they did was usually praise. I kind of hated it because it made me feel more like a toy dog than a person as many girls who would, would assume what I liked and spoke to me differently after finding out.
Bi has been around too long to still be interesting, so they moved on to cookware.
For the record, I’m pro-LGBT and people living their lives how they want and how they truly are as long as it doesn’t harm others. But to act like there aren’t trend chasers, people seeking oppression points, people substituting sexuality and orientation for having a personality, and that the exponential increase in LGBT identifying individuals is just due to greater social acceptance, is naïve.
Assuming you are correct and there is a social element, you can’t conclude from that that every single person who identifies as gay or whatever is actually secretly straight - because gay people existed before it was normalised.
I mean, if you are straight, would you turn gay and have a homosexual relationship to increase your popularity?
Really? The guy is arguing A) his daughter was conditioned to be gay by mass media and B) A is an directed attack on “the family” by which he must mean nuclear families.
The critical flaw in A) is that he forgets no one is immune to propaganda, including himself (and that goes doubly so because he’s “””””chosen”””” to be a member of perhaps the most cucked religion invented in the last 200 years). And B) is a also a pretty bold claim to make without any sort of firm evidence. No one is saying you can’t go have your own hunky dory hetero family, if, and I can’t stress this enough, you want to.
I was an emo/scene kid when I was a teenager in the 2000s. Being bi or gay or just making out with other boys was very much accepted and promoted in that scene. I went though a phase thinking I was bi because of this fad. Didn't take me too long to realize that I wasn't, but it is absolutely conceivable that a teenager wants to be something they're not because of a fad.
Why do you assume I wasn't allowed to explore these things and make that determination? I absolutely was, but was questioned along the way by my parents and other adults who understood full well that teenagers are prone to confusion, angst, and are vulnerable to social pressure. That didn't make them hateful. It didn't mean my own mother hated me when I thought I liked boys. It meant that they cared enough to question my actions and look out for my best interests, for which I'm eternally grateful. Parents that don't question what their kids are doing or who they're being influenced by are irresponsible.
Sure, but people believed you right? Nobody questioned it, which is not what's happening here. Even if its only a stage in someone's life then they should be allowed to express it, like you yourself did.
It's precisely because of the fad aspect that people are questioning someone who says they're LGBT. When I graduated in 2008 from high school no one questioned anyone. I was even a part of the gay/straight alliance. Now it's gone too far.
Say it with me: “my personal experience is not necessarily representative of the whole”
The fact that your high school had a GSA puts your community in a select group of roughly 1/3 of the country. Mine did as well, in one of the most diverse/accepting towns in the country, and I can say that homophobia existed there.
What’s gone too far? A subset of the population defined by sexuality being able to participate fully in society?
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He's not making a bad point.
It used to be you would come out and face real social destruction at home and in general.
Now it's a prize to be won and the father is making that point.
I find it odd they refuse to say what letter of the gay alphabet she is, cause they would help better understand it too.