The short of it is that you are taking a metaphor literally. Saying lyrics are "poisonous" just means they are offensive, it doesn't mean they are a literal mind poison, and that listening to them will "inject" a poisonous idea into the listener's mind. Minds and ideas don't work like that. Most people recognize that is true for adults, …
The short of it is that you are taking a metaphor literally. Saying lyrics are "poisonous" just means they are offensive, it doesn't mean they are a literal mind poison, and that listening to them will "inject" a poisonous idea into the listener's mind. Minds and ideas don't work like that. Most people recognize that is true for adults, but stubbornly insist without evidence it must still be true for kids and teens.
I happen to think that organic food is a scam, but I can definitely see what progressive parents are thinking. They believe (correctly) that having sex is fun and harmless if done responsibly, so to stop their kids from having sex responsibly is depriving them of a source of joy for no good reason. They likely also think pot use is harmless if done responsibly (this I am not sure I agree with them on, it's probably safe for adults but I think the affect of pot on developing nervous systems is understudied). By contrast they think (falsely) that non-organic food is full of literal poisons.
As you can probably tell, I am not some sort of hippie progressive parent. I am a dispassionate, calculating parent who thinks the evidence is often on the hippies' side, even though I find their general outlook annoying.
I also think another factor is that people in our society often subconsciously believe that sex and sexualization stains the honor of women, even if they do not consciously endorse that. Even people who claim to be feminists seem to act like they think this is true. People who believe this look insane to people who do not, they try to "protect" women and girls from things that are not harming them. People who do not believe this often look misogynistic to people who do, because they are willing to tolerate the staining of women's honor. I think that is another reason progressive parents might confuse you, it seems to you that they're failing to protect their children from harm, when really they just don't believe any harm is being done.
The short of it is that you are taking a metaphor literally. Saying lyrics are "poisonous" just means they are offensive, it doesn't mean they are a literal mind poison, and that listening to them will "inject" a poisonous idea into the listener's mind. Minds and ideas don't work like that. Most people recognize that is true for adults, but stubbornly insist without evidence it must still be true for kids and teens.
I happen to think that organic food is a scam, but I can definitely see what progressive parents are thinking. They believe (correctly) that having sex is fun and harmless if done responsibly, so to stop their kids from having sex responsibly is depriving them of a source of joy for no good reason. They likely also think pot use is harmless if done responsibly (this I am not sure I agree with them on, it's probably safe for adults but I think the affect of pot on developing nervous systems is understudied). By contrast they think (falsely) that non-organic food is full of literal poisons.
As you can probably tell, I am not some sort of hippie progressive parent. I am a dispassionate, calculating parent who thinks the evidence is often on the hippies' side, even though I find their general outlook annoying.
I also think another factor is that people in our society often subconsciously believe that sex and sexualization stains the honor of women, even if they do not consciously endorse that. Even people who claim to be feminists seem to act like they think this is true. People who believe this look insane to people who do not, they try to "protect" women and girls from things that are not harming them. People who do not believe this often look misogynistic to people who do, because they are willing to tolerate the staining of women's honor. I think that is another reason progressive parents might confuse you, it seems to you that they're failing to protect their children from harm, when really they just don't believe any harm is being done.