We would never say: media portrayals of flamboyant homosexuals leads to support for homosexuals...
We would never say: entertainment media portrayals of gang banging thugs with falsified police "rap sheets" leads to thuggish behavior among a certain segment of society...
Yes, they can lead to those things when you have a society of dim-witted public school sheeple. Plus they are inundated with these images much much more than young people decades ago.
If they are surrounded by a gang-bang culture these shows and movies simply reinforce that. Kids who grew up in the suburbs and country don’t get the same message because they have counter and alternative messages from real life.