"Studies show that..."
What a great rhetorical line! It shuts us up because we're ill prepared to deal with it. And the conservatives just fill in the space after 'Studies show that', with the bogeymen of same-sex two-parent households, pedophelia and whatever else they are obsessing over.
I would really like to have a tool to research these studies they allude to, the discredited ones, the ones like the single-parenting studies that 'prove' same sex two parent households are detrimental to children, the 'studies' that 'prove' reparation therapy 'works', that women in showers are in danger from people born with penises, et cetera.
I would also like to have a list of the studies that refute their studies, that list the number of peers that reviewed those studies and found them worthy.
And I would like the list to have full citations so that I could say, 'here's the information, go look it up yourself'.
It won't change their minds.
But it might change the minds of those listening to the exchange.
Just a thought;
Karen
