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When gender identity is not demonized by those who are generally ignorant of sexuality and especially embryology - those young people tend to do much better in core subjects. And in a country obsessed with sex and eager to enter bedrooms to tell people how evil they are - it's little wonder their kids are incompetent in school.
You lost me completely.
Well, Christians could start by educating themselves on sexuality instead of acting like 5 year olds obsessed with it. That might result in a reversal of their tendency to act like intellectually limited bigots that demonize gay and trans people with their desire to 'fix' them with conversion therapy - or slobbering over QAnon theories that these kids are being 'groomed'. One of the biggest groomers in this society are the clergy. Trans kids are not the problem. It's the society so repressed that they want to 'pray the gay away' that is the problem.
I believe the claim you cited was that sexually permissive societies fail. That implies that sexually repressed societies thrive. Where are they?
You lost me with your irrelevant, hateful ranting about Christians.
Heaven forbid we scrap the whole gender identity gong show and get back to reality. But, you folks have already opened Pandora's box, so there really is no going back from here.
No... you are presenting only two alternatives or at least the wording isn't correct. Is it "repressive" to promote healthy abundant intimate unions in an monogamous relationship?
I'm speaking of the thousands of Christians that I know. I'm including the moderates - and they are legion - that sit back and do nothing in the face of the extremists. They may not be actively encroaching on rights, but they consistently fail to call out those that do. I have to fight Christians every day. I fight to keep them off of my grandkids school boards where they seek to throw out science books and now history books. I fight to keep them from demonizing gay and trans kids based on their ignorance of both sexuality and the bible. Where are the Christians fighting this movement toward a theocracy? I'd love to meet them.
Can you answer the question? Please cite the thriving societies that only value monogamous relationships?
Your ignorance of the 'reality' of sexuality is common. The 'reality' is that every single human embryo starts out as female. It's only through a 'genetic wash' initiated by a Y chromosome that changes the embryo from female to male. But nature makes mistakes. The change has to occur in both the genitalia AND the brain chemistry. When the change is altered by nature or nurture - we get things like a child born with both a penis and ovaries. What is its gender? We have no clue. We have to have enough respect for them to ASK them. Further, we often get children born with fully male genitalia, but a brain chemistry that is female. This is the 'reality' of sexuality. Demonizing these children for this occurrence in nature is no different from seeking to cut of the hands of the left handed because some barbarian based religion calls them evil.
Thank you so very much for your opinion. You are too kind!
So far, so good. (Where do I get to learn summin?)
A curious way to put it, but whatever.
*Nods* and...
Or nurture? Que? As in a test tube?
*nods* and...
Last I heard, we call them Intersex, but I don't keep up on the literature, sorry.
Golly, you got me there. What don't I have a clue about again?
Yes, I have read about that too.
Thank you so much for the kind lesson. I am truly humbled.
What religion would that be?
We call them intersex only until they can communicate to us how their brain identifies. Those that respect them accept their identity. Those who don't call them 'confused' while ignoring their own confusion.
Tomato, tomato.
I stand collected. JD Unwin then? A historical analysis that he published in 1934 (Sex and Culture) based on Sigmund Freud's theory of sexual sublimation?
They already are. Religious repression gives sex an emphasis it does not need, resulting in higher rates of sex crimes in those countries dominated by religion. In this respect the US is closer to Afghanistan than to Sweden, or virtually any other industrialized nation. Countries that don't have this intellectual limitation have found that both sexes can actually use the same restroom without fear of sexual predation.
I was wondering the same, and I was also wondering where to find data that gives the USA such a relatively high crime rate? Is it the data from 1984 to 1988? That is from over twenty years ago, and in those years how many developed countries are interested in publishing their relative crime rates? Politicians hate to be embarrassed by inconvenient truths when it affects their own public polls. What I notice is that crime in USA has been decreasing since 1988, and there are 50 states here each with very different crime rates. Overall just based on googling it looks like our crime rate is between that of France and the UK. Where are they getting "7 times" from? They don't say, which sounds fishy to me.
The violent crime rate is irrelevant. The topic is sex crimes. The most recent data shows the US with an incidence of sex crimes against women at almost double the incidence in Europe.
I doubt the USA is the best example of what you are talking about simply because lots of other things about us are unique. We had televisions early on, for example. We recently underwent integration of a subjugated population, in which respect we are like South Africa. The intuition you have seems shaky. Have you considered the effects of human trafficking, pornography and a past of institutional segregation? It doesn't sound like it, and instead it sounds like you are mistaking correlation for causation.