Men under 24 have largely lived in a world of higher gay acceptance than previous generations. (broadly speaking about western society, not places like saudi or fundamentalist sects)
There’s a lot more intolerance to stigmatizing gay people, cops prosecute crimes against gay people, gay people aren’t as openly discriminated at work like in the past. Homosexuality is more accepted in 2026 than in the 1990s.
I wonder if living in a community where they haven’t seen violent gay intolerance makes them unaware of what they are advocating for.
Same thing could be said for anti-vaxxers. Never had to live through polio, measles, or other diseases running rampant and wreaking havoc on the population so they don’t have the perspective to immediately see the benefits that vaccines have afforded us.
Edit: before anyone points it out, yes I’m aware there was a pandemic a few years back and anti-vaxxers were coming out of the woodwork. But by that point there were politically manufactured anti-science movements with troublingly eugenicist undertones in full force. COVID was most lethal towards the sick and elderly, which a lot of conservatives wrote off as “acceptable losses,” measles and polio affected children who were otherwise healthy.
Men under 24 have largely lived in a world of higher gay acceptance than previous generations. (broadly speaking about western society, not places like saudi or fundamentalist sects)
There’s a lot more intolerance to stigmatizing gay people, cops prosecute crimes against gay people, gay people aren’t as openly discriminated at work like in the past. Homosexuality is more accepted in 2026 than in the 1990s.
I wonder if living in a community where they haven’t seen violent gay intolerance makes them unaware of what they are advocating for.
Same thing could be said for anti-vaxxers. Never had to live through polio, measles, or other diseases running rampant and wreaking havoc on the population so they don’t have the perspective to immediately see the benefits that vaccines have afforded us.
Edit: before anyone points it out, yes I’m aware there was a pandemic a few years back and anti-vaxxers were coming out of the woodwork. But by that point there were politically manufactured anti-science movements with troublingly eugenicist undertones in full force. COVID was most lethal towards the sick and elderly, which a lot of conservatives wrote off as “acceptable losses,” measles and polio affected children who were otherwise healthy.