People Who Identify as Vampires Shouldn't Be Judged, Study Says

People Who Identify as Vampires Shouldn't Be Judged, Study Says | National Review Online
Stop being so judgmental. 
Sociology researchers are now insisting that we as a society start accepting people who choose to “identify as real vampires” — so that they can be open about the fact that they’re vampires without having to worry about facing discrimination from people who might think that that’s weird. 
The study, titled “Do We Always Practice What We Preach? 
Real Vampires’ Fears of Coming out of the Coffin to Social Workers and Helping Professionals” was conducted by researchers from Idaho State University and College of the Canyons and the Center for Positive Sexuality in Los Angeles. 
“Most vampires believe they were born that way; they don’t choose this,” said Dr. D. J. Williams, the study’s lead researcher and the director of sociology at Idaho State. 
The study is based on the experiences of eleven “real” vampires — which, by the way, are different from “lifestyle vampires.” 
“Lifestylers,” the study explains, are people who just do things like wear fangs and sleep in coffins as lifestyle choices, and although “real vampires” may do these things too, they all also have one major thing in common that distinguishes them from the “lifestylers:” 
...“The message is to not take things at face value, to be more aware of our stereotypes and our judgments, maybe focus on commonalities that people have,” Williams said in an interview with MTV. 
“People understand themselves in very different ways, and that’s OK. 
We’re all human. 
We all have a lot of things in common. 
I think a little more awareness of our own biases and more cultural sensitivity — more compassion — that’s really the important thing underlying all of this,” he said.