Awareness

[matrixmann]

Do information campaigns really fulfill their purpose?
Isn't it more important what people do from day to day - what their mindset is that determines their acting everyday?
And do these campaigns have any influence at all on how people think about a certain matter, about a certain group of people?
Did any campaign, for example, ever change any peoples' thinking towards gays? Or make it clear to them "you know, that's like somebody glued tits on your chest, made you be able to get babies, put you in a woman's dress and told you 'from this day on, you live as Maria for all days'"?
Did anything ever convince anyone "this is a story that can happen next door to me, so I better be no asshole 'cause I still need to live in one and the same apartment building with my neighbors"?

Comments

[mandarinsun.livejournal.com]

I have no idea how gay people got more respect. I think it was from mainstream people knowing more and more gays and watching television comedies like Will and Grace and laughing at gay comedians.

Maybe it was because women wanted to be more friendly with some men and gay men can be very funny and very friendly and love shopping and clothing like women do. So, women started liking gay men more and more.

Some of it had to do with work and how work changed. In the 1970s and before, to make a living it helped a lot to be very masculine and a lot of men worked with say cars and in factories, but since then a lot of high paying jobs are in customer service and in offices with computers. Gay men could compete much better and therefore were less like outsiders that lurk around and seem weird and strange.

Gay men could also no longer be beaten up because men that do that are guilty now of hate crimes and are given ten years or more in jail. That happened because of civil rights movements and how people suddenly couldn't do that to blacks. Before the civil rights movements, men could just go lynch and hang black men, or any outsiders, that didn't fit in.

It mostly has t do with fitting in to white culture. It is mostly a good thing, though I agree that there are sort of side effects to all this: you can't just turn society upside down and expect everyone to just go on peacefully as before.

[mandarinsun.livejournal.com]

I see schools tell teenagers propaganda all the time and the teenagers mostly believe it: they believe it like 98% of the time and like 98% believe it! The propaganda is told to them by the teachers and administrators. Also, each high school has web based announcements now show on something like television for fifteen minutes a day.

The problem I see though is that if someone tried to make a book of everything adults told children: putting it all together in the same place to be read, it would contradict itself all over the place. Mostly, the propaganda is be happy and don't bother other people. The thing I see wrong with it is that teenagers today are really competing with each other for fewer and fewer good jobs. At some point, they are going to be frustrated that they will have less and less and will be angry or depressed. The solution should have been that they needed to work much harder, but they are being passive far too long. Schools encourage passivity. Teachers and principals should be failing like half of every class because the typical work produced is garbage, but to do that you'd have extremely angry teenagers coming to school everyday and a lot of them would stop coming to school at all. The statistics are better if you give almost all of them good grades.

[ribakov.livejournal.com]

А что разве еще кто то на западе сопротивляется гей пропаганде?
Еще остались те кто против ГЕЕВ?