Bingo. I believe social status to be a major force in the increase. Identifying as LTBGTQIAP+ offers a heightened social status among particularly the affluent - it also affords a person greater political power. It has been identified as a protected class that affords preferential treatment in hiring, in college tuition, and in the general victim/grievances pyramid of culture and media.
Declaring oneself bi-sexual or тАЬnon-binaryтАЭ is an easy way for whites to escape being tagged with the slur of тАЬoppressor.тАЭ These claims are a verbal assertion that most importantly requires no action on the part of the claimant. When my kids were in high school in the 90s, bi-sexuality dominated. Today the fad is тАЬnon-binary.тАЭ The latter is even encouraged in children by leftist parents who are proud to have a child who so declares.
This is a disease of advanced societies and it is dangerous. That is not to say that bi-sexuality doesnтАЩt exist although тАЬnon-binaryтАЭ is nonsense.
I just had a kind of mean girl 5th grader interrogate me, as children sometimes do, about my personal life. It usually starts with demanding my age, and then if I offer that I have a 25 year old son, without telling my age, they are easily derailed into a line of questioning about my marital status. I always refuse to answer, and the recent mean girl then prefaced all her questions, after an initial one assuming I had a wife, with whether I had a boyfriend or girlfriend or how long it has been since I did. When I was in the 5th grade you would never have suggested an adult was in a same sex relationship.
It has become very high status among affluent teenagers to claim exotic sexual orientation.
Bingo. I believe social status to be a major force in the increase. Identifying as LTBGTQIAP+ offers a heightened social status among particularly the affluent - it also affords a person greater political power. It has been identified as a protected class that affords preferential treatment in hiring, in college tuition, and in the general victim/grievances pyramid of culture and media.
You also get to claim victimhood, which itself is seductive and "high status" among a lot of social circles.
Declaring oneself bi-sexual or тАЬnon-binaryтАЭ is an easy way for whites to escape being tagged with the slur of тАЬoppressor.тАЭ These claims are a verbal assertion that most importantly requires no action on the part of the claimant. When my kids were in high school in the 90s, bi-sexuality dominated. Today the fad is тАЬnon-binary.тАЭ The latter is even encouraged in children by leftist parents who are proud to have a child who so declares.
This is a disease of advanced societies and it is dangerous. That is not to say that bi-sexuality doesnтАЩt exist although тАЬnon-binaryтАЭ is nonsense.
Doesn't work though. White "CIS gender" gay men are told to shut up and let the black transgenders run everything.
It was in bohemian circles 50 years ago too, but we naively thought there were only two sexes. What did we know. /s
So many genders, so little time!
And being heterosexual was never socially rewarded, was it?
This kind of view only makes sense if you view heterosexuality as the default and superior.
LGBTQ often go through years of shame for their attractions. It's not high status, lol.
I just had a kind of mean girl 5th grader interrogate me, as children sometimes do, about my personal life. It usually starts with demanding my age, and then if I offer that I have a 25 year old son, without telling my age, they are easily derailed into a line of questioning about my marital status. I always refuse to answer, and the recent mean girl then prefaced all her questions, after an initial one assuming I had a wife, with whether I had a boyfriend or girlfriend or how long it has been since I did. When I was in the 5th grade you would never have suggested an adult was in a same sex relationship.