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thread of me breaking down how stupid homophobes are because it’s pride month…
I was recently in a “debate” (if you can even call it that) with a homophobe here on twitter & they replied with this picture to try to prove their point…

(trigger warning: dumbassery) Image
so let me break down all of these “facts” that they are attempting to use to prove their “point” that is a very thinly veiled hate comment against a minority…
#1: “58% of homosexuals have problems with intestinal worms”

first of all, as with many of these “facts”, the source is blurred out, because it doesn’t exist & was made up. also, as you can see below, worms come from a variety of sources, rarely ever being transmitted sexually. Image
#2: “1 in 15 homosexuals is a pedophile”

ignoring the obvious grammatical errors in this sentence, & again, the lack of a visible source, this is just simply not true… Image
#3: “33% of homosexuals have problems with alcoholism”

another issue that has nothing to do with sexuality. perhaps you could account for the amount of queer people with addiction because of the hate they endure from the far-right agenda of constant homophobia.
#4: “on average, a gay man has up to 80 sexual partners per year. and on average a total of 1000 over a lifetime”

do I even need to explain how stupid this one is…

well I’m going to anyway because it’s genuinely very disturbing to me that someone could actually believe this…
continued… Image
#5: “47% of gays admit to having been raped by an adult man during childhood or adolescence”

this “fact”, while also not having a clear source, may be true. however, the issue with this one is that it does not prove anything. this just proves that men are awful & rapists…
continued…

the obvious implied intent of this “fact” is to say that gay people are gay because they’ve been raped by a man. okay, so if this statistic is true, how does this account for the other 53% of gay men who have not been raped… it doesn’t. NEXT.
#6: “homosexuals represent 2% of the worlds population, but they represent 33% of pedophile rapists”

another poorly researched fact, as the percentage of gay people actually makes up closer to 7%, however that is not even relevant…
continued…

even if that statistic was true, 33% is still the minority of pedophiles, by a large margin. you just admitted that 67% of pedophiles are straight. lol. thank you for helping prove my point i guess.
#7: “78% of homosexuals have STDs”

girl… do i even have to explain this one?

…i will anyway…
Once again, I will start with my personal testimony. I, as a gay man, have never had any lifelong STDs impact my life, nor have I known any gay person in my life to have one.

Moving on, on average, 80% of sexually active people encounter some form of STD in their lifetime… ImageImage
Notice how this fact doesn’t specify whether or not these STDs are lifelong infections or merely one that can easily be absolved with medicines/shots that 80% of sexually active adults encounter in their lifetime.

So another obvious manipulation of data for the sake of bigotry
#8: “23% of children with lesbian parents have been sexually abused”

as with almost all of these “facts”, yet again, this one does not hold any merit, even conceptually.

notice the wording (once again…)
this sentence doesn’t even TRY to pretend that it proves anything…
the “fact” does not prove that lesbian parents are abusing their parents, it just says those kids have been abused by literally anyone in their life. I could use a statistic like this about daughters of straight children to try to push a false narrative with the same results…
…as this source was actually legible, I did some more digging into the article to find that they also only compared this to statistics of un-divorced, upper income straight couples.

it’s become redundant at this point, but this is another obvious ploy to manipulate statistics.
FINAL THOUGHTS

I could go on & on & ON about how ridiculous the arguments brought against the queer community are, but, quite honestly, it’s pride month & so I’m going to kick back & celebrate.

hope this thread was able to educate some, & provide a laugh for others 🫶🏼
(i apologize for the typos towards the end hahaa hope my point was still able to get across!)

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