Setting aside his obviously BS stats... when I started high school in the late 90s, no one in my class of ~400 identified as LGBTQA. By the time I graduated, maybe 2 guys were openly gay and I know one girl who said she was bi. So like 3 out of 400. That was just 20 years ago. We know that way more than 3:400 are LGBTQA. People aren't fundamentally different, but the nature of identification, information on LGBTQA, and openness to being different is just so far ahead of where we were as a society not long ago. Of course any curve starting off with a base near zero is gonna look like a rocket taking off.
This tracks with my experience, but quite a few years earlier. Not a soul in our class identified as anything other than 100% straight. Decades later, a bunch of them have had egg cracking moments in their 30's and 40's.
Remind me some day to talk about our "self-removed music teacher", who was probably one of the kindest men I've had the honour of studying under.
Ooooooooh self-removed, I thought that only the part after the hyphen was removed lmao. Made it really confusing trying to think of what slur could possibly fit there.
when I started high school in the late 90s, no one in my class of ~400 identified as LGBTQA. By the time I graduated, maybe 2 guys were openly gay and I know one girl who said she was bi. So like 3 out of 400. That was just 20 years ago.
Almost the exact same thing at my school too. Eerie.
Setting aside his obviously BS stats... when I started high school in the late 90s, no one in my class of ~400 identified as LGBTQA. By the time I graduated, maybe 2 guys were openly gay and I know one girl who said she was bi. So like 3 out of 400. That was just 20 years ago. We know that way more than 3:400 are LGBTQA. People aren't fundamentally different, but the nature of identification, information on LGBTQA, and openness to being different is just so far ahead of where we were as a society not long ago. Of course any curve starting off with a base near zero is gonna look like a rocket taking off.
This tracks with my experience, but quite a few years earlier. Not a soul in our class identified as anything other than 100% straight. Decades later, a bunch of them have had egg cracking moments in their 30's and 40's.
Remind me some day to talk about our "self-removed music teacher", who was probably one of the kindest men I've had the honour of studying under.
Really curious what word got auto-removed there
It's a word that rhymes with "maggot".
It wasn't removed by any bot or mod, I did it voluntarily because I'm not a weenie, and I know that sort of language can make people hurt.
Ooooooooh self-removed, I thought that only the part after the hyphen was removed lmao. Made it really confusing trying to think of what slur could possibly fit there.
My bad
All good, sister. :penguin-love:
I'm in a constant struggle between CHUD Thordros who existed in the past, and Decent Human Thordros who's trying to be at least okay in the present.
I'm pretty sure the good guy is comin' out on top, though. :Care-Comrade:
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Almost the exact same thing at my school too. Eerie.