"Why shouldn't gay people adopt children?" [+7] "People like you should calm the fuck down and accept that other people have different beliefs." [+844]

But we don't just stop an investigation of a problem because one line seems to explain it. Why do they think that way? What mechanisms lead to this syllogism that you mentioned? What are the environmental factors that continue to reinforce these views? How do we see cultivation effects in the media contribute to these positions? What methods have they devised to reduce this dissonance in environments that increasingly frown upon bigotry and prejudice? Where do they go so they don't have to (unfortunately, I guess we do know one answer for this one)?

Being able to easily discuss our views/work, complex or otherwise, is essential. If you can't, we probably don't understand it well enough ourselves. But a syllogism is only an illustration of the first step; describing the issue or process. To continue to engage and further understand it, there is more work to do.

One of the very common misconceptions of feminism is that it is only a position or movement, when there are actually research methodologies that grew out of said movement (or were informed by it, whether they acknowledge it or not). Maybe those are appropriate for addressing similar questions, or maybe other models would be better. In any case, you interpret these issues and build upon what has come before, actively entering a decades-long conversation about something that is obviously important to all of us.

I don't have time to pursue this line myself, I have my hands full on a whole other movement, but I do think they are important. I sincerely doubt that it would be a new frontier either, but I posed the questions anyway. I guess that's on me, asking when I can seek answers for myself (and hopefully share).

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