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MikeWaters · 10-06-2016, 01:21 PM

The video on singles not getting married is very short. It consists almost entirely of Gerrit Gong speaking. One notable aspect of it is how he spends most of his time attacking media bias. It almost feels like he thinks that this world view of mainstream media bias is what best resonates with his audience. He could have picked a million different angles to approach the subject. He chose bias.

Another aspect about these videos is that you see how these discussions influenced future decisions. For example, it's likely that the decision to reduce ages for missions was influenced by the desire to 1) retain young male members, by getting rid of the "lost year" between high school graduation and 19, and 2) solve the conundrum that young women felt that they had to choose either a mission or marriage, or that a mission might delay marriage. And I don't think these are just recently revealed explanations, they may have been presented as such at the time the policies were introduced.

Also it seems that the organization of young single wards was likely changed related to activity of young adults and marriage. I'm less familiar with how that works.

10-06-2016, 01:21 PM	#11
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	The video on singles not getting married is very short. It consists almost entirely of Gerrit Gong speaking. One notable aspect of it is how he spends most of his time attacking media bias. It almost feels like he thinks that this world view of mainstream media bias is what best resonates with his audience. He could have picked a million different angles to approach the subject. He chose bias. Another aspect about these videos is that you see how these discussions influenced future decisions. For example, it's likely that the decision to reduce ages for missions was influenced by the desire to 1) retain young male members, by getting rid of the "lost year" between high school graduation and 19, and 2) solve the conundrum that young women felt that they had to choose either a mission or marriage, or that a mission might delay marriage. And I don't think these are just recently revealed explanations, they may have been presented as such at the time the policies were introduced. Also it seems that the organization of young single wards was likely changed related to activity of young adults and marriage. I'm less familiar with how that works.