The LGBTQ+ community spent a very long time being a sacred cow, and now the pendulum is swinging back hard and fast.
According to Pink News, men under the age of 24 are falling back to the "homophobic views of past generations," as revealed by the Pew Religious Landscape Survey:
Sixty-five per cent of 2000s men believe homosexuality should be accepted in society, over seven per cent less than those born in the 1990s and three per cent less than 1980s men.
Women aged 24 and under, meanwhile, are far more likely to support LGBTQ+ rights, with 83 per cent supporting same-sex marriage and 82 per cent supporting homosexuality generally.
AIBM noted the gender gap for those born in the 2000s was the widest in nearly every subject compared to every other decade.
Trans rights were by far the most contentious subject among young people. 60 per cent of 2000s women said they believe trans people should be accepted by society, while just 44 per cent of 2000s men answered similarly – a gender gap of 16 per cent.
Support for same-sex marriage saw a 2000’s gender-gap of 12 per cent, support for homosexuality had a gap of 17 per cent, and abortion rights a gap of 10 per cent.
Interesting numbers that do, in fact, speak to something of a walkback of society when it comes to LGBTQ+ support.
Why is this happening? Why, it's those dastardly online conservatives, of course:
Washington University professor of practice, Ryan Burge, argued the survey results prove that young men are increasingly influenced by “social-issue messaging”, particularly from right-wing religious groups.
I'm going to throw out a different theory here. In fact, I'm going to throw out two.
The first is that this survey isn't as accurate as people would think. I don't think men under 24 are exhibiting more homophobia than previous generations. In fact, I'd go so far as to say it's not homophobia at all.
The term "homophobia" suggests that these people who aren't on board with all the LGBTQ+ stuff are just unreasonably terrified of those who are "queer" and that their bigotry comes more from fear than anything else. It's a wordplay trick meant to discredit the queer community's opponents before the argument even starts, and it's 100 percent a lie. Terror has nothing to do with it.
But that's not why I think the survey is inaccurate. I think it's inaccurate because it's definitely not just men under the age of 24 exhibiting these behaviors. More and more men of all ages are dropping the burden of "tolerance" and pushing back against the LGBTQ+ community.
My second theory is that this has nothing to do with "right-wing religious groups." In fact, I'd say Burge's assertion is more on the theory side than my guess is, because, unlike the intelligentsia, I'm actually listening to what people are saying in the town square.
It's not religious groups. It's the queer community. That's who's driving the youth away. That's who's driving everyone away.
If you were to go back over my writing, I've penned endless articles documenting and commenting on the intersectional left's insistence that members of their umbrella groups be represented in everything at all times. It doesn't matter what the setting, the story, the job, or the need, someone from their barn full of sacred cows has to make an appearance, and no one is louder about this than the queer community.
What's more, they don't just inject themselves into everything to the point where it ruins movies and television; they try to inject themselves into your child's school, your sporting events, and failure to welcome them with open arms is tantamount to physical assault.
Previous generations didn't have the freedom of expression we do today. Elon Musk's purchase of X really did change the narrative game, and now that more people are speaking out and not being silenced artificially, it's hard for the rest of society not to notice how awful these groups are to everyone.
Does that mean the populace is increasingly starting to hate the LGBT community?
Not at all. The QT+ is what most people are sick of, and even then, I wouldn't say they hate people from that community as well. What they hate is the demand that we be obedient to their social rules and the tantrum-throwing that happens when we don't. It got old, and now that we know we're not alone, the pushback has begun in earnest.
It's the cultural pendulum finally swinging naturally, and the LGBTQ+ activist community is just going to have to deal with the fact that they aren't the untouchable sacred cow they once were.
In fact, I'd say they're increasingly becoming something they fear more than being hated... and that's being just like everyone else.
