With apologies for not having read past page one and replying anyway. I'll try to read the rest of the thread after posting this.
TL;DR strongly disagree, but will try to politely discuss the reasons. FWIW, no edgyness or mockery in this reply, only genuine thoughts.
I think that homosexuality is a mentally transferable disease which can be contracted subconsciously through messages advertised in media.
Homosexuality has been documented to exist in pretty much every human culture that bothered to keep written records, way, *way* before than the concept of "[mass] media" even existed.
While I agree that mainstream media definitely has a position and an agenda regarding homosexuality (as part of the larger "woke" trend in current Western civilization), it is by no mens
Much like pretty much any aspect of individual human thought, one's position on sexualit *can* (and in the modern era, *is*) influenced by media. But being attracted to one's own sex is thoroughly established to (be able to) happen naturally, in the absence of any undue external influence.
I would like to refer to these advertisements as "parasitical thoughts", which is a thought which eats away at your beliefs, it dulls your rationality, and it makes you question your personality.
You might as well just refer to it as "modern mass media". It rather fits the bill, sadly.
It is not something that can be simply diagnosed,
???
But it is in fact trivial to "diagnose". If you are attracted to your own sex, you are homosexual. Matters of "degree" and "but it is a spectrum" are all valid points of discussion for those so inclined, but to the degree that we are talking about getting an answer to "is this person homosexual", getting an answer is as easy as it gets - once you get past the issues of admitting, even to oneself, to something that is considered social stigma.
I truly believe there is a correlation between the increase in homosexuality for the newer generations, it is more artificial. It feels as if they are being steered into it rather than happening upon it themselves.
Because it *is* more artificial (at least that is my subjective opinion, too).
Many individuals and groups, from political parties to corporations, have realized that it benefits them to push those views at every opportunity, if in name only at least. It gains them much-needed PR standing with the community while being virtually unassailable by competition, because anyone who disagrees with their platform (which so happens to, among other things, "be an ally" of the [alphabet group]) must be homo-, trans-, whatever-phobic, or misogynistic, and therefore a Literal Nazi. It really isn't the case, but they'll very loudly and vocally shout that it is, and that you're a Nazi for even implying that they do not hold absolute truth,
and that anyone who does business with you must also be a Literal Nazi by association, and then who will want that?
And, (and this is the point I was trying to make), they
don't care that their constant bombardment and white-knighting of the issue will perhaps drive young, susceptible people to confusion over matters that they would (perhaps) not ever bothered themselves with.
Thankfully though, this ruse is getting very old, and more and more people are getting wise to it. But we still have many years ahead of us with this status quo.
This reply is getting long and rambling. But if there is one "takeaway" from this post that I'm trying to make, is this:
I think you're conflating the wider (, horrible, detestable) "woke"shit
social movement, to the fact that one can,
individually, say, rather prefer choking on dick than eating pussy, where bedroom affairs are concerned. Or other wider questions of identity and/or sexuality, where those questions are borne of organic introspection. The latter do not, by itself, imply any of the disgusting characteristics associated with the former.
Hate often stems in reaction to foreign,
alien ideas. But such hate can sometimes be proven to be unfounded, and more worryingly, plenty of people will try to take advantage of that hate, and fuel it to steer you into behaving in ways you ordinarily wouldn't. Much of the nasty business that went down in the forties was facilitated in part that.
Homosexuality is something that I simply cannot understand, [...]
For the record, I'm not a faggot.
