pointing exhaustedly at the graph of left handedness over time
The interesting question is where the plateau will be. Are the "almost everyone is at least bi to some extent" people right? Who knows.
Or I guess there's also :ace-heart: weirdos like me, and of course being trans isn't exactly a sexual orientation.
Kinsey broke it down by things like "incidentally does gay stuff but doesn't seek it out", because like there are people who would shrug and be like " a blowjob is a blowjob" if someone offered, but would never ask, or would make out with dudes at parties (hi!) But has no interest beyond that. It's a lot more nuanced that just throwing people in to one of three buckets and calling it a day. Iirc about half of men and thirty percent of women showed some degree of arousal to homosexual content. Idk if that still holds true in more modern studies.
Yeah, by a lot of metrics boomers are much more :frothingfash: than some previous generations. Only on some metrics though.
The decline of queer oldies, dying due to the difference in mortality between the straights and us :(
when Kurt Cobain said everyone is gay in 1993, he was just being ahead of his time
This is just the US right? I find it interesting how modern culture has more people identifying as lgbt than the indigenous communities in my area that weren't tainted by Christianity. They still have lgbt people of every stripe and accept them openly, but I wouldn't say that it's one out of five. More like one out of ten. Still more than the dominant culture that represses itself with Evangelical bullshit.
I grew up in a small conservative town and used to feel like kind of an anomaly for liking dudes, but I just started college in the city and I feel like more than 1 in 4 of the guys I met end up liking guys too, so that’s cool. It’s not even a liberal arts college, just a regular ass place so I guess that’s sort of become the norm in a lot of areas
I honestly used to assume straight men wouldn’t want to be friends with me if I told them I liked guys, but seeing tons of gay and bi guys being in all male friend groups + frats that completely accept them honestly made me feel a lot better about my identity this past year. I don’t think I’d be comfortable coming out if I didn’t see it as normalized, not just tolerated
old shitheads always fight what younger people want. thanks for leaving us a burnt planet!
Indeed, it’s easy to forget that most of the cool old people got killed off by Babylon
Iirc about half of men and 30% of women showed some degree of arousal in response to homosexual images in Kinsey's studies, so we have a long way still to go.
So what I'm getting is that everyone's at least a little queer and all modern western gender and sexual identities, cishet or LGBTQ+, are basically consumer identities.
Didn't we already know all this like 50 years ago?
