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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 61 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 55 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Until it is abused out of them, on Sundays, at a special building.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 26 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I went to church and sunday school for years and they never mentioned homosexuality. Or sexuality really.

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I grew up in the Bible Belt and churches in my hometown would put up homophobic messages on those outdoor notice boards that you see as you drive by. Not every single one, but not none of them, either. This was going on until the late 2000s at least, I’ve heard it’s marginally improved.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 13 points 1 week ago

Well that's rather disgusting

[–] seraphine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For those that don't get it this is survivorship bias.

During World War 2 they were attempting to figure out how to better equip the planes they had to survive. A certain statistician by the name of Wald figured out that the holes in the planes that they could track weren't that important because those were the planes that returned. Instead it was safer to assume that everywhere else needed better protection, as the planes that received damage in those areas weren't returning.

Sorry if I ruined the funny, but I saw the downvotes and was concerned.

[–] seraphine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago

Exactly. In this context, the phrase "I never had any bad experiences with the church" contains survivorship bias, because those who did might no longer be around to tell the tale.

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Yeah, it's the parents. Their views are passed on with every minute in the household. Children absorb.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 9 points 1 week ago

No way - shame begins at home:-D.

[–] neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't know where the adorably precocious children in this screenshot are purported to come from. Every kid I've ever met who questions me about my gender has been an argumentative little shit that wants to make a point out of not believing me.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I only interact with kids who don't have shitty parents

[–] Iteria@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

It's not shitty parenting. Kids at a certain age just don't take correction from people who they don't feel have a right to correct them. Sometimes that person is no one. My kid refuses to believe the sun is not a planet. She will argue until she's blue in the face. She has argued that she's a boy. Later that she's a girl. She misgendered people all the time and wasn't open to correction from anyone including me for a while. You think, "call people what they want to be called" is an easy lesson to teach. It is not. It took over a year to make it stick. Kids are just dicks sometimes.