When did everyone become ‘queer’? - '...16 percent of high school students, and 22 percent of girls, identified as LGBTQ.'

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[–]SerpensInferna 27 insightful - 1 fun27 insightful - 0 fun28 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I can't help but feel that 'queer' is this generation's goth or emo equivalent. Which would be fine - kids do weird things when they're hopped up on hormones and trying to figure the world out - if multiple circumstances hadn't converged to create the absolute monster that it has.

By 'multiple circumstances', I would include social media, the horror show the left has become, absolute wealth and comfort and no true hardships or struggles, the coup d'état of the T of LGB organizations and issues, permissive parenting...feel free to tack on whatever the hell else you want to here.

[–]Alma_Esmeraude 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

People in goth and emo (and punk) subcultures understood they were participating in a subculture. I'm not sure the teens, young adults, and actual adults labeling themselves "queer" understand this, because the term is so much conflated with sexuality and sociopolitical status.