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The West's movement away from an Abrahamic worldview has certainly helped with the acceptability. There's no doubt that there's an aspect of the expectation of
by yarg 4y ago
The West's movement away from an Abrahamic worldview has certainly helped with the acceptability.
There's no doubt that there's an aspect of the expectation of acceptance and safety that makes self-identification more viable (certainly more so than the expectation that your family is about to throw a bunch of rocks at you).
However, that does not mean there's been no change in the underlying rates - it just means that the data is noisy.
We've dealt with noisy data before.
- dcow 4y agoI guess a more succinct way to phrase my question-point is: what if as western liberal humans we've always been accepting of anything as it increases in prevalence and something has cased the prevalence of LGBTQ+ to rise to a point where we naturally accept it more? Just a thought experiment I'm definitely not trying to question all the work activists have done. More-so opening the table and asking what if it's an effect and not a cause. I guess covid may be an obvious counter-example but meh.
- yarg 4y agoIf there's a shared cause to both it's industrialisation. It is the reason we're well fed and well educated - here's where I'd look for the cause of acceptance. It's also the beast we built to burn the world.