Re: OT: What? the clean-shaven outnumber the bearded? "Yer Ugly Mug," etc.

En réponse à Andreas Johansson :


>PS There are Darwinistic explanations of homosexuality. The latest I heard
>invokes the "big brother effect", namely that gay men tend to have more elder
>borthers than other men, and asserts that homosexuality is a side-effect of
>actions by the foetus to defend itself from the mother's immune system, which
>is assumed to be on its guard against male signatures since the earlier male
>foetuses.
I am first child, and my younger sibling is a sister (my mother didn't get
any abortion or dead-born child before me). My partner is the second of
three siblings, and the two others are girls. My former boyfriend was an
only child. My first boyfriend was the younger one, but he only had an
older sister. So I don't know about this alleged Darwinistic effect, but
it's pretty suspicious to me. Also, I know that the mother's immune system
reacts to the rhesus of the child (and then, only with mothers of negative
rhesus with a foetus of positive rhesus it happens), but I've never heard
that it reacted also to the sex of a foetus. I'd like to know what evidence
they have on that (for instance, a study showing that a majority of
dead-born children are males, or that just born males are usually less
healthy than just born females).

Like Stone, I think it's really more grasping for an answer, just like this
survey that tried to compare the brains of homosexuals with the brains of
women...

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.

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