[...] Of course, this sample may be biased in that a fair amount of these people go to or have gone to Catholic schools in the past[...]
Sorry for nitpicking here x_x But poking at the notion of connection religious schools to phobia/misunderstanding humanity aspects: It depends on
how the understanding comes about. My country is...filled with Catholic schools [Hello Philippines ._.], and we're pretty open to trans/and everything else here
Priests work as theologians. Said priests are at the forefront of supporting such people. Counseling is also included to support them.
It's easily visible within the classrooms and other such places [obviously no PDAs], but main thing is its [generally] OK here. Though there's still the stigma and discrimination in many places [yeah, Gay people belong in parlors because Beauty >_>], there's a ton of progress because of...the attitude on How things are being done. There's just that negative label which is falling off its stickiness, but it still sticks in a way.
Also what I meant by 'nobody will believe her' is because this broaches the common aspect of
Conformity. People have a better viewpoint than binary [HATE/NOT HATE] in regards to that, but most--it seems in some areas--prefer to default to that kind of binary thinking because 'that's how everyone else around me behaves'. Throwing in a lot of other factors here which would revolve around this kind of thinking--it also deals with reinforcement and support; some people have no idea why this is, so there's a default to dislike because 'this is what other authoritarian figures/older people say'!
I could share the many methods on how we believe information over other sources but that'll just derail this x_x
Point being: That still makes me sad, but I just wanted to note that it
will not last. I'll lay down a disclaimer here that I'm Not speaking for the entirety of attitude--I am merely speaking about the procedure of attitude; the general tendency is that when people will something to change, it will with effort. When people support something, it'll remain--as seen by the prevalence of phobias when cut down to its base concepts: Supporting the fear with a myriad # of ideas.
Internet mainly. Lets the non-assholes fart with greater collective volume than the assholes for once, to paraphrase someone's sig.
... what internet is this?
Yeah, seriously. If there's some kind of hidden section of the internet (besides the one that's full of illegal things) where everyone is calm and collected I might wanna get in on that.
@_@
Y'all need more exposure.