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Born This Way? Why Are so Many College Students Saying They're Gay?
PJ Media ^ | 12/17/2022 | Robert Spencer

Posted on 12/17/2022 6:41:34 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Human beings are social animals. We do what we see others doing. Occasionally the imitative tendency leads to mass hysteria, as large numbers of human beings convince themselves that there are witches possessing malevolent supernatural power among their friends and neighbors, that Martians have landed on earth and begun a violent takeover, or that large numbers of daycare centers are engaging in Satanic ritual abuse.

Human behavior is contagious and spreads to other humans, for good as well as for ill. What societies revere and glorify, they’ll get more of. And so it is that nearly 40% of students who attend liberal arts colleges now say they’re LGBTQ, including a whopping 61% of students at Smith and fully 70% of students at Wellesley.

Long before being LGBTQ was cool, the unsavory sex researcher Alfred Kinsey claimed that 10% of the population was homosexual, but this number was wildly exaggerated. In 2015, it was estimated that about nine million Americans, or a bit under three percent of the population, were LGBTQ. What has changed in America in the last seven years to make the LGBTQ population increase, at least among students at liberal arts colleges, by over 1,300%?

The answer is clear: our society glorifies being lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer, and a group that a society glorifies will grow.

This glorification is a product of the Left, and no entities are more Leftist these days than liberal arts colleges.

(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: college; gay; gays; homosexuality; lgbt; lgbtq; socialcontagion
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To: SeekAndFind

Fag fad


21 posted on 12/17/2022 7:02:39 AM PST by Old Yeller
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To: GingisK

It’s a brain-washing gimmick. Once you start breaking down a 18 or 19 year old kid....you can convince a large portion of various things. In a year or two...the kid will need mental help...talking over their confusion and how they were used.


22 posted on 12/17/2022 7:06:16 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: SeekAndFind
They're answering surveys the same way high school students vote for the tranny student to be homecoming or prom queen.

It's nothing new. I went to school with kids who regularly answered intrusive surveys with the most off-the-wall stuff they could think of.

23 posted on 12/17/2022 7:06:34 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: SeekAndFind

College kids today are too dumb to realize they are looking for a lifetime partner in the WRONG places.


24 posted on 12/17/2022 7:07:25 AM PST by RideForever (Damn, another dangling par .....)
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To: SeekAndFind

Being bi and gender fluid is “in.” Almost as annoying as many of the college kids in my area who voluntarily wear (cheap disposable worthless) surgical masks to show they “care” about respiratory disease I guess.


25 posted on 12/17/2022 7:13:04 AM PST by Clemenza
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To: SeekAndFind

Everybody is gay, some just don’t realize it yet.


26 posted on 12/17/2022 7:13:10 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Successful People Have a Sense of Gratitude. Unsuccessful People Have a Sense of Entitlement)
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To: SeekAndFind

In Army basic training a guy in our platoon decided his enlistment was a mistake and announced that he was gay.

In those days they still kicked them out.

Anyway, several of the drill sgts took him into the Senior drill sgt’s office and told him to prove it.

He graduated with the rest of us.

The guy that started limping in the second week finally got his discharge and was immediately cured.

He was walking to his cab when a drill leaned out the window and yelled “Hey you forgot limp”, he grinned and limped off on the other foot.


27 posted on 12/17/2022 7:14:31 AM PST by skepsel ("A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime", Mark Twain.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Aren’t 60%+ of liberal arts degrees going to women? Aren’t women generally more likely to be physically close to other females? So really, this sudden surge in LGBTQ is coming largely from young white liberal women. As the article notes, they may feel attraction to other women, but few actually act on it. It’s just a fad, a way to feel part of the in crowd, not truly a “gender identity”.


28 posted on 12/17/2022 7:15:06 AM PST by CitizenUSA (Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.)
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To: GingisK

it only exists via solicitation. sure as hell isn’t in the genes


29 posted on 12/17/2022 7:19:04 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: GingisK

>>It is a fad.<<

My thoughts exactly.

Gives a lie to the “born that way” line, doesn’t it?


30 posted on 12/17/2022 7:20:03 AM PST by freedumb2003 (Difference between a cow and the US Capitol 1/6 "riot:" you can only milk a cow 3 times a day)
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To: SeekAndFind

For college boys, it’s easier to kiss the Marxist “perfesser’s” ass if you’re gay.


31 posted on 12/17/2022 7:20:20 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Hey Amerika! The whole world is watching and laughing their asses off. )
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To: SeekAndFind

1. Just what kind of job opportunities exist for LGBTQT+ liberal arts majors after graduation? They are going to seek their own kind. And you wonder why the schools are full of weirdos?

2. As the article indicates, the liberal arts college environment is a self-reinforcing echo chamber.

3. Claiming to be something other than a dreaded CIS Heteronormative White Male could possibly be interpreted as a survival move. Of course, this doesn’t apply to CIS Heteronormative Women (human adult females) or Lesbians, who are just labeled as transphobes or TERFs. Besides, they are not really “women.” Come to think of it, what is a woman?


32 posted on 12/17/2022 7:21:02 AM PST by Captain Rhino (Determined effort today forges tomorrow.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Because our Government is at war with the population.

They’re hitting us 10 ways from Sunday.


33 posted on 12/17/2022 7:24:30 AM PST by Sarcazmo ("Sarcasm is the highest form of wit" ~ O. Wilde)
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To: freedumb2003

Since there is no gay gene, it’s been a lie for some time.

Why would there be a gay gene? What’s the evolutionary driver for the survival of a characteristic that discourages reproduction?


34 posted on 12/17/2022 7:25:14 AM PST by Reily
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To: SeekAndFind

There are three primary types of imprinting that have been discovered in psychological research.

Filial imprinting
Sexual imprinting
Limbic imprinting (filial and sexual imprinting may also involve limbic imprinting)

https://study.com/learn/lesson/what-is-imprinting-in-psychology.html


It is very important to understand imprinting.


35 posted on 12/17/2022 7:25:49 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sometimes bisexual, or questioning, or asexual, or nonbinary are responses given by young people who aren’t sure what they are, or don’t want to give a definitive answer. Students who would have assumed that they were heterosexual in previous generations don’t assume that anymore.

Smith College isn’t exactly representative either. Wellesley is a bit more of a surprise, but not that much.


36 posted on 12/17/2022 7:26:38 AM PST by x
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To: Reily

>>Why would there be a gay gene? What’s the evolutionary driver for the survival of a characteristic that discourages reproduction?<<

It is identical to and frequently linked to pedophilia. I is an aberrant predilection. But none dare point that out.

Pedophilia will be the next sexual deviance to be normalized by the left.


37 posted on 12/17/2022 7:29:52 AM PST by freedumb2003 (Difference between a cow and the US Capitol 1/6 "riot:" you can only milk a cow 3 times a day)
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To: freedumb2003

“...Pedophilia will be the next sexual deviance to be normalized by the left....”

It’s clearly being worked on!


38 posted on 12/17/2022 7:31:19 AM PST by Reily
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To: SeekAndFind

Because they made the dumb decision to go to college.
Today, college is where one goes to be brainwashed by Leftists.

The irony is that they pay through nose to have their minds destroyed - or their parents pay.

Good job parents! I hope it was worth it - so you could boast your kid went to an expensive university. Now your son is gay.

I bet you paid a ridiculous amount for your daughters’ weddings too - only to see them get divorced a year later.

Leftists are such morons!


39 posted on 12/17/2022 7:33:04 AM PST by enumerated ( )
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To: SeekAndFind

Normal people are demonized and are the recipients of huge heaps of elephant droppings on their heads.

Abnormal people are celebrated, worshiped, given cash payments, raised to positions of power and exempted from all responsibility for their actions. So there are more of them.

The abnormal people have been artificially grouped into a phony group: LGBTXYZetc. The name of the group should be “Abnormal people, or those who claim to be.” The more people who join the group, the more power the group has.

Currently, LGBTXYZetc is at the top of the ruling hierarchy, and are our new masters. You have no right to criticize them. They rule over you.


40 posted on 12/17/2022 7:34:52 AM PST by I want the USA back (News media not worth camel spit. My pronouns: Who, What, I Don't Know.)
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