RE: Why do you think male homosexual have more mood and anxiety disorders?
June 27, 2015 at 8:19 am
(This post was last modified: June 27, 2015 at 8:37 am by Razzle.)
(June 26, 2015 at 5:46 pm)das_atheist Wrote:(June 26, 2015 at 4:09 pm)Neimenovic Wrote: Repression and stigmatization of sexual urges is not in the same category as racism. Black people and gays are two different groups of people. Your comparison is invalid.
Irrelevant. Nobody is telling black kids they can pray their skin tone away. There are no conversion therapies for black people.
But nobody is saying they are demon possessed and need an exorcism to stop being black.
Yes. And christians say homosexuals are going against god's will.
Again. Two different minorities. Not the same issues. Not the same psychological effect.
It would be much easier if you just said what your point is, because I'm lost. We've pointed out to you why there is a correlation between homosexuality and mood&anxiety disorders. Even your source says that. What is your point?
Are you saying anti-gay hate is worse than racism hate? I'm honestly not sure which is more of a problem in the US.
Just looked it up. https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2014/de...t-released
20.8% of hate crimes in US are sexual orientation related. Plus .5% gender identity.
48.5% are racial related. Plus another 11.1% related to ethnicity.
If the numbers of children and young adults beaten (even killed, like the toddler beaten to death for "acting like a girl" a few years ago) and made homeless by their own families were included in those hate crime statistics, they would be very different. Including all applicable child-on-child physical assaults in hate crime statistics (the vast majority never get reported as such) would also dramatically change the ratios.
The disproportionality of gay youth homelessness in the USA dwarfs the disproportionality of black youth homelessness in the USA, and that's because black people have the advantage of not being raised in families that hate them for being (or even "seeming") black.
It's likely that most hate crime victims - be it racist, homophobic or other - are children and teenagers, but they're usually left out because the incidents are frequently unreported to any authority, let alone the police, and when they are reported they're more often listed as child abuse, child abandonment, endangerment, assault etc. without also being classed as hate crimes. Gay hate crimes are by far the most under-estimated as a result of this bias, because more than any other demographic, among gay people it's the children and teens who suffer the highest rate of hate crime and other discrimination.
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