The number of kids who identify as LGBT, especially trans and bisexual, has absolutely skyrocketed. If you think this is a natural or organic development, you're deluded. The media, Hollywood, and the school system actively recruit children into the LGBT ranks.
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The rise in LGBT identities isn’t because of recruitment, it’s because it’s gradually becoming more accepted to be openly queer. There are still plenty of homes in which queer kids cannot be open about their identities, but maybe they can at school or among their friends, and there are increasingly more households in which queer kids are allowed to be themselves openly, and experiment with their identities at the point in their lives when finding out who they really are and what they want out of life is most important to them. Sure, some of them may realize after awhile that they are indeed straight and cis and they just had a passing interest in a friend. But most of them won’t.
Given how just 30 years ago kids would be beaten up in many schools for the slightest differences, and almost always called faggots no matter what that difference, compared to now where the commonality of such vicious bullying is thankfully reduced and actual action taken against such bullies, I’d say it is a natural and organic progression for kids today to just not think there might be such an issue with saying they think they might not be exactly like what you call “normal”. No need to hide it? Fine, you can tell your friends what you’re feeling and thinking!
Someone tells Matt Walsh that the percentage of kids who are LGBT has not increased. It’s that increasing tolerance for anyone LGBT has resulted in less LGBTs staying in the closet well into adulthood, if they come out at all.
MW: “Go take a looong walk of a shooort pier with that RECRUITMENT PITCH!!! There ARE more of them now, objectively AND proportionally, because the media, Hollywood and the school system are turning more Born! STRAIGHT! kids LGBT than before!!!! Bring back gay-bashing and corrective rape!!”
I am old enough to remember the 70’s. When a whole bunch of married fathers came out of the closet. The number of gays did not change. The number of people ADMITTING to being gay skyrocketed.
There’s a difference. Unless you’re an idiot.
I remember a case from about 30 years ago. A guy I knew who wanted to be everything for everybody. Part of that was that he wanted to be the “super inclusive” guy and tried to convince himself that he was het/bi/gay, all at the same time. Well reality caught up with him pretty quickly when he met the woman whom he ended up marrying. His “I’m het/bi/gay” lasted about a month.
You can’t force it, either way.
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