It's taboo and they enjoy annoying people but if they're tolerated it's not taboo so then it's no fun. So they try to gin up hate by being even more annoying. You see the same principle with trolls online making lame jokes and trying to be annoying.
Seems the author sees a paradox because the author believes this:
"The explanation of this paradox is most likely that minority stress theory is false, and poor mental health in non-heterosexuals is not caused by intolerance." And this:
"Another possible explanation is that non-heterosexuality causes poor mental health, except not by exposing you to intolerance, but by exposing you to some other bad thing." And this:
"Paradoxically, both different lifeways and narrative possibilities can be worse in more tolerant countries where you are more free to openly live as a gay person and more exposed to narratives of victimhood."
All of this is news to me. If for example a 'non-heterosexual' is in an intolerant country and gets accused of naughty acts and faces the death penalty, life imprisonment, chemical castration, or all three, I'd argue that the non-heterosexual did not do better in the intolerant country.
The author goes on to speculate that the bad thing could be:
“Different lifeways”: if you are non-heterosexual, you are automatically a statistical minority and can’t have a biological child with a person you love, plus there are statistical realities like that non-heterosexuals live farther from their families and that LGBT subcultures can be particularly toxic (“intraminority stress”). All of these can generate depression and anxiety but none of them can be fixed by more tolerance. “Narrative possibilities”: your identity is based on narratives about who you are. If this narrative is that you are a frail, sickly victim, then you may identify with this story and feel this way yourself. Because so many stories about non-heterosexual identity are about illness and discrimination, it’s easy to imagine that members of this community identify with these and instead of seeing themselves as normal people with a statistically rare sexual preference they start to believe that they are eternal victims of a cruel society always just one step away from AIDS or suicide. Paradoxically, both different lifeways and narrative possibilities can be worse in more tolerant countries where you are more free to openly live as a gay person and more exposed to narratives of victimhood.
I added this to the post whenever queue so long ago that I forgot about it. There's another link I added to post whenever even longer ago and I don't remember what that was about either, just that I did it. So that's interesting!
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It's taboo and they enjoy annoying people but if they're tolerated it's not taboo so then it's no fun. So they try to gin up hate by being even more annoying. You see the same principle with trolls online making lame jokes and trying to be annoying.
I'd guess it would depend how flaming they are to how much they pass as normal.
Stand out and get hammered down, for better and/or worse.
Yes? Here's a paper on the matter: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616696.2016.1207793
Seems the author sees a paradox because the author believes this:
"The explanation of this paradox is most likely that minority stress theory is false, and poor mental health in non-heterosexuals is not caused by intolerance." And this:
"Another possible explanation is that non-heterosexuality causes poor mental health, except not by exposing you to intolerance, but by exposing you to some other bad thing." And this:
"Paradoxically, both different lifeways and narrative possibilities can be worse in more tolerant countries where you are more free to openly live as a gay person and more exposed to narratives of victimhood."
All of this is news to me. If for example a 'non-heterosexual' is in an intolerant country and gets accused of naughty acts and faces the death penalty, life imprisonment, chemical castration, or all three, I'd argue that the non-heterosexual did not do better in the intolerant country.
Another theory could be they get more stds and that affects the brain. Maybe that's the bad things he mentions.
The author goes on to speculate that the bad thing could be:
A lot of that just seems like mental illness and I still think stds especially herpes causes insanity.
I added this to the post whenever queue so long ago that I forgot about it. There's another link I added to post whenever even longer ago and I don't remember what that was about either, just that I did it. So that's interesting!