Florida TV Cuts Feed as Ron DeSantis Shows Explicit Content in School Books

[ThatRobGuy]

Did you actually read that article? Nothing I see justifies the notion of social contagion.


300,000 more teens that identify as trans is nothing, statistically. What we are seeing is more or less in line with what happens when you destigmatize being trans.

In all honesty, I wouldn't be terribly surprised if it was a combination of both. The fact that people are more comfortable coming out now vs. 30 years ago doesn't negate the possibility of people glomming onto something in a "fad" capacity.

The percentage of people identifying as trans has nearly doubled from Millennials to Gen Z, and there is something of a regional component to it.

There's also been a sharp increase in the percentage of young people identifying as a generic "non-conforming"/"nonbinary"

To entirely dismiss the "fad" component would be dismissing everything we know about people in the 16-20 age group (and their desire to rebel for rebelliousness's sake). It would also be dismissing what we know about the "vibe" on certain campuses, which is that there's a certain "coolness" or "hipness" with identifying as anything other than "a boring ol' cisgender straight white person" in certain social circles.

 

[rjs330]

Guns kill people. Graphic novels don't. How can you compare excuses for the astonishing prevalence of guns in America with a graphic novel?

Why are you so afraid of a hunk of metal and plastic? A gun didn't decide to go out and kill people. Does it have some sort of mind control over anyone? Does it influence people in any way?

 

[rjs330]

You cannot turn people gay. could you be turned gay? If not, why do you think anyone else could be?

You don't know that. People who are gay have a much higher rate of abuse as a child. Now I know there are questions regarding whether or not a factor in the abuse was whether or not the child had gay traits or the abuse led to the child becoming gay. It the cause effect issue. The real answer is we don't really know. It's really hard to follow a kid from childhood to adulthood and see what happens to them before and after the abuse. All the studies out there don't and can't really answer the question.

I know some draw the conclusion that no you can't be turned gay by abuse. But when you actually read about it you find that it's only an opinion and the study doesn't really say that. All the studies do is say that abuse is very high among gay and non-conforming kids. They can't really draw a strong conclusion.

A boy who is abused may be weaker what are commonly masculine traits. More feminine if you will. But was he really gay? We don't know. There are an awful lot of men out there with what could be termed as more feminine traits, who are not gay.

Bottom line. Maybe abuse has an affect on whether or not a person grows up gay. There is certainly a correlation, but we can't say for a fact that it is or isn't. So the possibility exists that people can turn gay.

 

[Larniavc]

Why are you so afraid of a hunk of metal and plastic? A gun didn't decide to go out and kill people. Does it have some sort of mind control over anyone? Does it influence people in any way?

In a way yes. If a gun is in you hand you then have the option to shoot some one if you get angry. That option would not be there if you did not have a gun.

 

[Larniavc]

The real answer is we don't really know.

Please provide evidence that abuse 'turns' people gay.

 

[rjs330]

Please provide evidence that abuse 'turns' people gay.

You didn't read my entire post did you. Because I didn't say that.

 

[rjs330]

In a way yes. If a gun is in you hand you then have the option to shoot some one if you get angry. That option would not be there if you did not have a gun.

Oh no. The gun is completely harmless. The gun can't encourage someone to shoot someone else. It has no message to send. There is nothing in it's metal and plastic that in any way shape or form leads anyone to try and shoot it at someone.

 

[Larniavc]

You didn't read my entire post did you. Because I didn't say that.

You said we didn’t know. So you must have some evidence to suggest it might. So either pony up or admit that you have made it up.

 

[Larniavc]

The gun is completely harmless.

Thinking that is what gets people killed. The primary purpose of a gun is to kill things. Is poison harmless? If not why not.

 

[Chesterton]

Guns kill people.

That's like saying pencils do math.

There's a lot of this - people being stopped from reading books in front of adults by the people who approved the same books for children. Fascinating.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=school+board+stop+readaond

 

[Larniavc]

That's like saying pencils do math.

No it isn't. It's like saying it's easier to do maths with a pencil. In the same way it's easier to kill people with guns.

 

[Chesterton]

No it isn't. It's like saying it's easier to do maths with a pencil. In the same way it's easier to kill people with guns.

 

[comana]

Archie was always good for some clever sound bites but I am not seeing an epidemic of people being hurled out of windows by the dozen.

 

[rjs330]

You said we didn’t know. So you must have some evidence to suggest it might. So either pony up or admit that you have made it up.

That's right we don't know. All the studies so far don't really give a definitive answer as to whether or not it happens. So to say it doesn't happen is the same thing as saying it does. It's nearly an impossible task unless you can follow kids from childhood to see if they are traumatized and then find out if they d code they are LGBTQ afterwards.

So, this claim that is made that you can't turn gay is a false claim. Because you don't know if you can or can't.

 

[rjs330]

Thinking that is what gets people killed. The primary purpose of a gun is to kill things. Is poison harmless? If not why not.

In the context presented poison is harmless unless it's given to you by another person who intends to use the poison.

Are you saying that a hunk of metal all by itself can cause harm?

 

[Yttrium]

Are you saying that a hunk of metal all by itself can cause harm?

Hey. Don't make me send over my unstable yttrium buddies.

 

[Larniavc]

So, this claim that is made that you can't turn gay is a false claim. Because you don't know if you can or can't.

Have you learnt any philosophy of science? Do you know how the scientific method works? Are inferential statistics a foggy swamp to you? Because what you have just wrote screams out ‘I don’t understand a H0 from a hole in the ground’.

 

[Ceallaigh]

That's right we don't know. All the studies so far don't really give a definitive answer as to whether or not it happens. So to say it doesn't happen is the same thing as saying it does. It's nearly an impossible task unless you can follow kids from childhood to see if they are traumatized and then find out if they d code they are LGBTQ afterwards.

So, this claim that is made that you can't turn gay is a false claim. Because you don't know if you can or can't.

"Can't turn gay" is way too out of date and oversimplified these days. LGBTQQIP2SAA+ is a rabbit hole kaleidoscope of myriad sexual orientations and genders.

 

[Ceallaigh]

You cannot turn people gay. could you be turned gay? If not, why do you think anyone else could be?

First of all the LGBTQQIP2SAA+ claim that there are a myriad of orientations and genders, means "gay" doesn't come close to covering it.

Second of all children have very impressionable developing minds. There's quite a lot a child can be talked into that an adult can't.

 

[Larniavc]

There's quite a lot a child can be talked into that an adult can't.

Thinking that you can talk a kid into being gay is the stupidest take I’ve read on the internet all morning.