Less than a quarter of schoolboys in the Netherlands have a positive view of homosexuality, almost half the proportion of four years ago, according to a Europe-wide survey. The HBSC (Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children) poll found that just 22% of boys aged 12 to 16 had a positive view of homosexuality, compared to 40% the last time the survey was carried out in 2021. Gonneke Stevens, professor of Social and Behavioural Sciences at Utrecht University, said there was a...
I’ll be the devils advocate here and say it’s not the people, but how they receive information. People start to believe whatever the popular narrative is, and treat it as a baseline truth.
If you repeat something enough times, it becomes the truth. That’s what Internet has become. OP probably can’t even explain what they mean here, cause it’s just something they’ve just heard many times.
If you live in bumnfuck ohio, are you seeing this? No.
But if you live in a progressive city… it is shoved down your throat. And it wasn’t 10 years ago. Never once in 2010s was I ever accused of bigotry or lectured about pronouns, and pride month was pretty chill. Now… it’s pride year, every other person agonzied about pronouns, and I get accused of being a trans-hating bigot like every other week.
There is a huge social change going on, mostly fueled by social media, that turns everything into a battleground. I can’t be like ‘lgbt cool, that’s nice’ anymore. I have ot be foaming at the mouth pro lgbt and anti-conservative, OR ELSE I’m anti-lgbt.
It’s the extremism. You only see it on the conservative side, but it every much exists on the progressive side. Especially in progressive communities full of rabid angry people who incessantly need to virtue signal over social issues like this.
Thing is, my entire life I have been pro lgbt, and in my younger years I actively worked with gay and trans folks without issue (2000s, 2010s). The past few years whomever, people actively seek out conflict with me, in real life, over lgbt stuff. It’s insane. If you don’t think it’s beeing ‘shoved down your throat’ in a hostile manner… well you must not live in a progressive city, or you are very lucky, or you’re just willfully blind to it.
I’ve even sadly had a few friends I have had lost because they have been so rabid and hateful and miserable, in the name of leftist virtue signalling bullshit. But I guess you maybe don’t think anyone who is pro-lgbt can be miserable and hateful and awful?
I grew up in a conservative place being told being gay was awful, and was constantly accused of being gay and I had to prove I was straight. Now I live in a progressive place and I’m being told being straight and a guy is awful constantly and I have to prove I’m not anti-trans. It’s fucking miserable and I don’t want to interact with either kind of person anymore… and there are VERY few spaces I can just exist without this topic coming up as some kind of shit test being shoved in my face. Because so many folks are witch-hunting and need to know if you are ‘ON MY SIDE’. Like if I meet a new person and they aren’t shoving their politics down my throat and seeking explicit agreement on every issue… I’m shocked and surprised. because where I live… that’s kind of the default for a lot of people living here. I can’t go to the dog park without people going on about lgbt or other social issues. I’ve literally been asked about my dogs pronouns… that’s how fucking insane some folks are where I live… but a bunch of them have dog psychologists who they are paying $1000s of dollars to tell them their dog is trans because it makes them feel special.
anyways, i hope you live in a more chill city. but where i live folks are very much insane and have taken lgbt+ stuff to absurd extremes, especially the past few years. Nobody asked me my dogs pronouns in 2018.
I’ll be the devils advocate here and say it’s not the people, but how they receive information. People start to believe whatever the popular narrative is, and treat it as a baseline truth.
If you repeat something enough times, it becomes the truth. That’s what Internet has become. OP probably can’t even explain what they mean here, cause it’s just something they’ve just heard many times.
It depends on where you live.
If you live in bumnfuck ohio, are you seeing this? No.
But if you live in a progressive city… it is shoved down your throat. And it wasn’t 10 years ago. Never once in 2010s was I ever accused of bigotry or lectured about pronouns, and pride month was pretty chill. Now… it’s pride year, every other person agonzied about pronouns, and I get accused of being a trans-hating bigot like every other week.
There is a huge social change going on, mostly fueled by social media, that turns everything into a battleground. I can’t be like ‘lgbt cool, that’s nice’ anymore. I have ot be foaming at the mouth pro lgbt and anti-conservative, OR ELSE I’m anti-lgbt.
It’s the extremism. You only see it on the conservative side, but it every much exists on the progressive side. Especially in progressive communities full of rabid angry people who incessantly need to virtue signal over social issues like this.
Thing is, my entire life I have been pro lgbt, and in my younger years I actively worked with gay and trans folks without issue (2000s, 2010s). The past few years whomever, people actively seek out conflict with me, in real life, over lgbt stuff. It’s insane. If you don’t think it’s beeing ‘shoved down your throat’ in a hostile manner… well you must not live in a progressive city, or you are very lucky, or you’re just willfully blind to it.
I’ve even sadly had a few friends I have had lost because they have been so rabid and hateful and miserable, in the name of leftist virtue signalling bullshit. But I guess you maybe don’t think anyone who is pro-lgbt can be miserable and hateful and awful?
I grew up in a conservative place being told being gay was awful, and was constantly accused of being gay and I had to prove I was straight. Now I live in a progressive place and I’m being told being straight and a guy is awful constantly and I have to prove I’m not anti-trans. It’s fucking miserable and I don’t want to interact with either kind of person anymore… and there are VERY few spaces I can just exist without this topic coming up as some kind of shit test being shoved in my face. Because so many folks are witch-hunting and need to know if you are ‘ON MY SIDE’. Like if I meet a new person and they aren’t shoving their politics down my throat and seeking explicit agreement on every issue… I’m shocked and surprised. because where I live… that’s kind of the default for a lot of people living here. I can’t go to the dog park without people going on about lgbt or other social issues. I’ve literally been asked about my dogs pronouns… that’s how fucking insane some folks are where I live… but a bunch of them have dog psychologists who they are paying $1000s of dollars to tell them their dog is trans because it makes them feel special.
anyways, i hope you live in a more chill city. but where i live folks are very much insane and have taken lgbt+ stuff to absurd extremes, especially the past few years. Nobody asked me my dogs pronouns in 2018.