Forty percent of Brown University students say they are LGBT, suggesting social contagion
New survey data from Brown University’s student newspaper provides further evidence that the increase in LGBT identification is driven by social pressures.
The latest data show that between 2010 and 2023, identification as LGBTQ+ has almost tripled among the student body at Brown (from 14% in 2010 saying they were not heterosexual to 38% now). "The Herald’s Spring 2023 poll found that 38% of students do not identify as straight — over five times the national rate ," The Brown Daily Herald reported . "Over the past decade, LGBTQ+ identification has increased across the nation, with especially sharp growth at Brown."
Other sexual orientations have seen massive increases. "Since Fall 2010, Brown’s LGBTQ+ population has expanded considerably. The gay or lesbian population has increased by 26% and the percentage of students identifying as bisexual has increased by 232%," the student newspaper reported. "Students identifying as other sexual orientations within the LGBTQ+ community have increased by 793%."
The idea of LGBT identification as a social contagion is one that continues to draw criticism among academics. For example, the head of an academic journal that published a paper that supported the theory of Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria faced a cancellation attempt, along with the Northwestern University professor who wrote the paper.
Coincidentally, Dr. Lisa Littman, who popularized the idea of Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria, once taught at Brown University before being forced out over the controversy.
Dr. Littman argued that some girls who identified as transgender were doing so due to peer pressure from within their social circles. The 38% identification tracks with research from the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology, which found similar levels among elite colleges. The researcher on that project, Eric Kaufmann, noted in comments to the College Fix that his research has found sexual behavior has not kept pace with the identification.
In other words, bisexual identification outstrips bisexual sexual activity.
"If this was about people feeling able to come out, then we should have seen these two trends rise together," he told the College Fix. "What we find instead is that identity is rising much faster than behavior, indicating that people with occasional rather than sustained feelings of attraction to the opposite sex are increasingly identifying as LGBT."
Coming out as not heterosexual is trendy and wins social plaudits. But the notion that social pressure plays a role in LGBT identification is only controversial because the group is a sacred cow. However, the idea that peer pressure plays a role in our behaviors and lifestyles is acknowledged in other less controversial areas. It follows then that if teenagers can pressure each other to partake in some actions, they can encourage them to identify as LGBT as well.
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Mindless sheep who can't think for themselves.Biker wrote: ↑Mon Jul 10, 2023 4:19 pm Totally normal
Forty percent of Brown University students say they are LGBT, suggesting social contagion
New survey data from Brown University’s student newspaper provides further evidence that the increase in LGBT identification is driven by social pressures.
The latest data show that between 2010 and 2023, identification as LGBTQ+ has almost tripled among the student body at Brown (from 14% in 2010 saying they were not heterosexual to 38% now). "The Herald’s Spring 2023 poll found that 38% of students do not identify as straight — over five times the national rate ," The Brown Daily Herald reported . "Over the past decade, LGBTQ+ identification has increased across the nation, with especially sharp growth at Brown."
Other sexual orientations have seen massive increases. "Since Fall 2010, Brown’s LGBTQ+ population has expanded considerably. The gay or lesbian population has increased by 26% and the percentage of students identifying as bisexual has increased by 232%," the student newspaper reported. "Students identifying as other sexual orientations within the LGBTQ+ community have increased by 793%."
The idea of LGBT identification as a social contagion is one that continues to draw criticism among academics. For example, the head of an academic journal that published a paper that supported the theory of Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria faced a cancellation attempt, along with the Northwestern University professor who wrote the paper.
Coincidentally, Dr. Lisa Littman, who popularized the idea of Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria, once taught at Brown University before being forced out over the controversy.
Dr. Littman argued that some girls who identified as transgender were doing so due to peer pressure from within their social circles. The 38% identification tracks with research from the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology, which found similar levels among elite colleges. The researcher on that project, Eric Kaufmann, noted in comments to the College Fix that his research has found sexual behavior has not kept pace with the identification.
In other words, bisexual identification outstrips bisexual sexual activity.
"If this was about people feeling able to come out, then we should have seen these two trends rise together," he told the College Fix. "What we find instead is that identity is rising much faster than behavior, indicating that people with occasional rather than sustained feelings of attraction to the opposite sex are increasingly identifying as LGBT."
Coming out as not heterosexual is trendy and wins social plaudits. But the notion that social pressure plays a role in LGBT identification is only controversial because the group is a sacred cow. However, the idea that peer pressure plays a role in our behaviors and lifestyles is acknowledged in other less controversial areas. It follows then that if teenagers can pressure each other to partake in some actions, they can encourage them to identify as LGBT as well.
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Re: 40% of Brown U identify as LGBT
I fear for the Republic...BigChiefin wrote: ↑Mon Jul 10, 2023 4:44 pmMindless sheep who can't think for themselves.Biker wrote: ↑Mon Jul 10, 2023 4:19 pm Totally normal
Forty percent of Brown University students say they are LGBT, suggesting social contagion
New survey data from Brown University’s student newspaper provides further evidence that the increase in LGBT identification is driven by social pressures.
The latest data show that between 2010 and 2023, identification as LGBTQ+ has almost tripled among the student body at Brown (from 14% in 2010 saying they were not heterosexual to 38% now). "The Herald’s Spring 2023 poll found that 38% of students do not identify as straight — over five times the national rate ," The Brown Daily Herald reported . "Over the past decade, LGBTQ+ identification has increased across the nation, with especially sharp growth at Brown."
Other sexual orientations have seen massive increases. "Since Fall 2010, Brown’s LGBTQ+ population has expanded considerably. The gay or lesbian population has increased by 26% and the percentage of students identifying as bisexual has increased by 232%," the student newspaper reported. "Students identifying as other sexual orientations within the LGBTQ+ community have increased by 793%."
The idea of LGBT identification as a social contagion is one that continues to draw criticism among academics. For example, the head of an academic journal that published a paper that supported the theory of Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria faced a cancellation attempt, along with the Northwestern University professor who wrote the paper.
Coincidentally, Dr. Lisa Littman, who popularized the idea of Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria, once taught at Brown University before being forced out over the controversy.
Dr. Littman argued that some girls who identified as transgender were doing so due to peer pressure from within their social circles. The 38% identification tracks with research from the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology, which found similar levels among elite colleges. The researcher on that project, Eric Kaufmann, noted in comments to the College Fix that his research has found sexual behavior has not kept pace with the identification.
In other words, bisexual identification outstrips bisexual sexual activity.
"If this was about people feeling able to come out, then we should have seen these two trends rise together," he told the College Fix. "What we find instead is that identity is rising much faster than behavior, indicating that people with occasional rather than sustained feelings of attraction to the opposite sex are increasingly identifying as LGBT."
Coming out as not heterosexual is trendy and wins social plaudits. But the notion that social pressure plays a role in LGBT identification is only controversial because the group is a sacred cow. However, the idea that peer pressure plays a role in our behaviors and lifestyles is acknowledged in other less controversial areas. It follows then that if teenagers can pressure each other to partake in some actions, they can encourage them to identify as LGBT as well.
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Re: 40% of Brown U identify as LGBT
Why would universities be any different than parts of cities? We all know there are gay parts of the city? Why wouldn't all of the homosexuals all want to go to the same school?
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Isn't Brown an Ivy League school?
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Historically Gay Schools?
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Yes...supposedly one of the better ones.
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Nope...should have said supposedly one of the better Ivy League schools...hawkfan8812 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 11, 2023 2:27 pmSupposedly? You doubt that because of that article?
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If you dont like a penis included with your woman then youre just a transphobe!
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Re: 40% of Brown U identify as LGBT
Reminds me of a survey the gay community used to do at Rutgers.
Called it "Jeans Day."
On that day, you were supposed to wear jeans if you were gay.
Considering most of the students who weren't gay would have to go bottomless if they followed the "instructions," it was kinda predictable that over half the students were "gay."
Called it "Jeans Day."
On that day, you were supposed to wear jeans if you were gay.
Considering most of the students who weren't gay would have to go bottomless if they followed the "instructions," it was kinda predictable that over half the students were "gay."
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Except this is nothing like Jeans Day, is it?FSchmertz wrote: ↑Tue Jul 11, 2023 5:55 pm Reminds me of a survey the gay community used to do at Rutgers.
Called it "Jeans Day."
On that day, you were supposed to wear jeans if you were gay.
Considering most of the students who weren't gay would have to go bottomless if they followed the "instructions," it was kinda predictable that over half the students were "gay."
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It takes a truly miserable closeted cunt to track this stuff so closely.
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So does racism and homophobia you clueless fuck.
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So racism and homophobia only result in bruised feelings? Wow. I learned something today.
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Re: 40% of Brown U identify as LGBT
A poorly constructed poll found that 40% of poll-takers are pole-takers and you equate that to normalizing child mutilation. You might be taken more seriously if you started railing feverishly against male circumcision, but we all know tHe cHilDrEn is not the source of your miserable cuntyness.
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I had a thought, but unfortunately I had a second thought. They ricocheted off of each other and I can't find either one.
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There is no way that chick goes to Brown
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Go for it. Sorry to hear about your personal suffering.
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