ColonizationPoll suggests that 30% of US Millennials identify as LGBTQ, and implies same-sex attraction is a "lifestyle"

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[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

And of course homophobes will blame us, over the fact that between 25%-30% of the heterosexual population are attention whores who identify as “non-binary” or pretend they are bisexual thinking it will appeal to straight people of the opposite sex (news flash: it won’t). My advice to heterosexual homophobes is for them to look at the behaviour and parenting skills of their own community before blaming us over how Gen Z turned out.

[–]julesburm1891 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Same thought. Straight people are acting stupid, LGB call them out for it, LGB people get shut down as hateful for doing so, and, somehow, straight people being idiots is our fault. insert math lady meme

I do think the author has a point about people looking for meaning though. In the past, people had something to cling to to provide meaning—religion, national pride, family, work, etc. Now, it’s not “cool” to be religious or patriotic. It’s not cool to be super family-oriented or to take a lot of pride in your profession or company. People need some distraction from their own bullshit. Modern society scoffs at much of what we’ve historically used for that and only provided a black mirror of social-media narcissism.

[–]Elvira95Viva la figa 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is very true. People do need a purpose to feel like they've got a reason to live. Only mindless shot of dopamine for pleasurable activities is empty in the long run. Even someone rich will likely get in depression, if their life is all hedonism and not purpose. I think this is just a way for younger people to find a cause, something to belong to, but its damaging for the real LGBT.

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

We need national pride, cultural pride, communal pride and familial pride. And if you are religious, you should be proud of it. All those things are condemned in western society nowadays, so of course young people have turned to identity like made up genders.

[–]CleverFoolOfEarth 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

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