• GiveOver@feddit.uk
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    3 days ago

    They think gay stuff is like crack, once you get exposed to it you’ll be addicted and there’s no going back.

    There’s some truth to that, but only for a certain percent of the population. The rest are immune. We have a word for people in that “vulnerable” category, and the word is gay. So unless you’re gay there’s no need to worry about it. Worrying about gay stuff turning you gay is gay af

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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      I think that at some level they understand how easily their own views are shaped by the people around them and by the media they consume. So they assume everyone is like that and that if you’re gay or trans it means you’ve been manipulated into it by external forces. It’s weird to me to imagine being so malleable to social pressure that you would undergo trans surgery because of it, but conservatives really think that’s what’s going on and it’s because they are that malleable to social pressure.