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In Ruben's essay about sexuality, she explained how the oppression of homosexuality today is the result of a long chain. The sex oppression in Victorian England led to strict laws about sexuality in Amierica, which led to other things, which led to a crackdown of prostitution, which led to a crackdown on homosexuality, which led to negative opinions towards homosexuality. Today's homophobia therefore has a historical cause, but in the modern frame it doesn't actually have a legitimate justification. I began to ponder why the younger generations tend less and less to be homophobic than the old farts who run our nation, and realized that it might be because of the lack of justification. Today, we have such a big cultural focus on information, facts, and science. The internet, the sci-fi genre, and the competitive, streamlined nature of the education system, no doubt, all contribute to this focus. Consequently, there's less of an importance placed in tradition. It makes sense, then, that homophobia is waning: there's no logical, biological, or scientific reason that gays are bad or shouldn't marry, and apathy towards tradition causes a disconnect from the ancient culture that pushed its anti-gay agenda since the days of Queen V.