71.4% of Oberlin college is "LGBTQ." How is that possible?

I think this is the crux of the issue -- "queer" has changed in definition quite a bit. My understanding in talking with some of the current college generation is that "queer" is a pretty non-defined catch-all to include anyone who has any fluidity to their sexuality.

The Kinsey scale is outdated, but let's use it here. If 0 is totally homosexual and 6 is totally heterosexual, modern students will use "queer" to define themselves if they're anything that isn't a 6.

Asexuality has absolutely nothing to do with homosexuality. This poll is flawed.

D’em gays and queers are out recruiting kids and going to take over.

You're not trolling me and you're not getting me to question my thoughts. I'm comfortable with my stances and thoughts.

I have always favored that students should attend the school that they feel they would have the best chance of success at and feel the most comfortable at. If that school is 100% gay, so be it. If it's 100% black, fine. 100% white conservative Christians? So what?

I happen to be Jewish and as is the case with many members of the tribe, I grew up in a neighborhood that was at least 70% Jewish. The schools that I attended in my youth were the same. Even the university I attended, Emory in Atlanta, despite the fact that it was founded by Methodists, has a high percentage of Jewish students. Emory, though, is diverse. I considered that diversity to be important. I did not wish to communicate & interact with all like-minded people all of the time. I have a kid that attends the U of Chicago. Chicago is actually a much more diverse school than Emory is.

Politically I am very much a centrist. I've read enough of your posts to know that you are not. You only see things as black & white, right & left, etc. You are the antithesis of diversity and your thoughts are confused. I initially called you out because you specifically called out the HBCUs for your example of a student body that is not diverse. You failed to mention many others, conservative Christian schools in some cases, that are not diverse either. While you may have attended a university that was diverse, methinks that more than likely you lived in an echo chamber while you were there and you still do.

Actually, many of those that usually make the most noise about this stuff, and are homophobic and outspoken about the LGBTQ community, are closeted.

LRC has so many anti-LGBTQ thread because some posters are uncomfortable with themselves...

Aren't incels technically LGBTQIA+2 too since they are A?

Thank you very much for the answer, Karen. Out of all the initials, this one is by far the most ambiguous. I wonder if Q should be removed from the initialism just to avoid this confusion.

Q means questioning. Always has. It never changed.

Ha - no. That's patently false.

cnn.com

What the 'Q' in LGBTQ stands for, and other identity terms explained

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Here's what the Q in LGBTQ stands for and other identity-related terms you should know.

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would you ask why the percentage of Mormons at BYU is so high? the percentage of Black students at Howard? use your brain.

Pearl-clutching thread of the day.

Life is much better just being normal, yep, just like mom and dad.

God i forgot about that. I had those pants with all the zippers.

Could it be that people don't want to appear bigoted? And if you aren't bigoted, how do you know you're not gay? Then that means we all are questioning if you define it a certain way which I guess makes sense as look at what happens in prison when you don't have any other options for the next 40 years.

Lots of straight women identify as "queer" even though they've never done anything remotely gay. Trust me I would know.

Isn't that ironic? They think they are rejecting gender concepts when in reality they are inventing them - nonbinary.

How about this? We don't think about gender concepts. We don't ever talk about a female presentin person. We only talk about biology. Females and males.

Now a female should be allowed to be a firefighter. A man can work a more flexible job than his wife (both Weldon and I do this) and do more of the diaper changing. Your sex doesn't have to mean anything other than I have a penis and produce sperm, my wife has a uterus and produces eggs.

this is not Yeshiva (Judaism) or Principia (Christian Science) or Gallaudet (deaf), like a school "for" a social segment. yes, i am sure those schools are up near 100%. but it's done that way on purpose. likewise, while less strictly exclusive, yes, byu is 98% mormon, and howard is 86%, but the latter is premised as an HBCU. you're implying that just because it's liberal and queer-friendly -- as opposed to premised on being exclusively something -- that liberal school is so dogmatic it pulls queer numbers like they literally set it up as an exclusive school. that you'd have as many students who swing that way as blacks at a school for blacks, up near a deaf school that has limited hearing acceptance or a school that requires extensive jewish classes and observance.

buzz. bull.

my sense is this is some conservative who posts a free speech ranking stirring the pot that like literally everyone at a liberal school is liberal -- and this is the stretch -- that they think all alike and see themselves as gay and thus have some cardboard cutout issue with conservative responses to same or free speech. this was not my experience.

to be fair, oberlin might be like 80-90% liberal (but not gay), yes, but knowing the historical politics of the school, that's probably self-selected. conversely i am sure liberals at bob jones, liberty, and hillsdale are rare. even someone happy to banter across the divide would likely not seek that experience out as their 4 year gauntlet. they might not be picky about the politics of their local school if they commuted but dorm schools, duh, a lot of people will select for their politics.