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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gay dad here. Would have no hesitation with Gonzanga. Send my own kid to a different boys school and there are gay students there. It's a very different world than the 1990s. I'm jealous of your kid being a teen today.

Gay men come in all types and beliefs and attitudes and character. Some are stereotypical qu33r with existential angst and believes the whole world is against them, others are laid back conservatives who know they are just one among many different types of people on this planet. The biggest annoyance I find with modern LGBTQ+ is that they act as if they have a lock on what gays must be like and must do and must believe in.

If your kid is athletic and easygoing, he will be totally fine at Gonzaga.  [b]I'd even go as far as to say that sending a normal gay child to a super lgbtq friendly progressive school may be a bit of a disservice. Insular bubbles reinforces beliefs in unhealthy ways in the name of kindness and affirmation.[/b] Gonzaga will not do that. In short, if your kid feels at home with the vibes at Gonzaga, he will be fine. And there are gay faculty who can be mentors if he needs to connect with a gay adult, which IMHO is important.

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Can you explain what you mean here? [/quote]

So it has been answered above but want to provide my thoughts in general not specific to a LGBTQ+ as it relates to all kinds of issues. One of the biggest anathema's with respect to social media is the fact you get stuck on feed back loops based on the algorithms of what you watch/click on. If you lean right, you are going to get mostly right leaning stories, same the other way. This tends to feed into your view as being the only correct view out there and that an opposing view is wrong. It wasn't like this in the past when you generally received your information via a hard copy of newspaper, news cast or neighbor where you had no ability to self filter the news that would then create a system that would continue that self-filtering without your knowledge. It prevents your ability to learn about opposing views and more importantly not understand the nuance in many issues that aren't as black/white as social media algorithms make it to appear.[/quote]

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