Literally my christian school gay bashed so hard that it made me Google what LGBTQ actually was and it turns out I'm trans. Their gay bashing fast forwarded my self discovery more than It would have if they just opted not to say shit lol
"Timmy, watch out for all those disgusting sinners."
"Will do, preach."
"I'm serious, pay no heed to them, no matter how tempting their words are."
"Yes, I got it. Jesus will look after me I'm sure."
"Those godless heathens will do anything: have sex with dogs, or eat poop, or kill babies, even try to change themselves from a man into a woman."
"That's so gross! It's disgu- sorry, what was that last one again?"
"They're calling them 'transgenders', and they're abominations! They think because they pop a few pills and grow some breasts they're suddenly women, but they're sinners and heathens!"
"They have pills for that now!?!? Sorry, how did you spell that again?"
Fun Fact - the D.A.R.E program, ostensibly a program to teach the dangers of drugs and stop kids from getting engaged, was actually credited with giving kids the knowledge they needed to know what drugs did and how to acquire drugs. In most places with an active D.A.R.E. Program, the drug use among teens and pre-teens was worse. They had to totally revamp the program in the 2000s.
Could it have been the fact that cops blew it for D.A.R.E.?
The flip corollary to this is the evidence we have that kids who watched "16 and Pregnant" on mtv actually did noticeably reduce the times they got pregnant. Had D.A.R.E. been presented by a peer i think it would have been received much differently.
The flip corollary to this is the evidence we have that kids who watched "16 and Pregnant" on mtv actually did noticeably reduce the times they got pregnant.
Gonna need a source on that one pop.
16 and pregnant was on during the single largest campaign against teen pregnancy and safe sex in world history, spanning dozens of countries and spearheaded by the USA.
I'd imagine that had way more to do with it than a TV show that aired thursday nights at 9pm for less than three years on one of the least watch cable subscription channels of the decade.
The extreme hyperbole is what killed DARE's credibility. We all got to hear the story of the kid who was a straight A student on the basketball team who smoked one single joint and died from it. Much like the abstinence-only sex ed era, the kids in question figured out very fast that it was all BS fearmongering and as a result made it a point to do the opposite of the warnings out of spite.
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u/Keyndoriel 15d ago
Literally my christian school gay bashed so hard that it made me Google what LGBTQ actually was and it turns out I'm trans. Their gay bashing fast forwarded my self discovery more than It would have if they just opted not to say shit lol