Re: OT: What? the clean-shaven outnumber the bearded?"YerUgly Mug," etc.
| From: | Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 22, 2003, 17:59 |
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>Well exactly. I have heard, however, some of my liberal gay friends refer
>to it as a "chosen lifestyle." I had just read the article in the New
>Yorker some years ago about "The Homosexual Brain," which tried to show
>that
>homosexuality is not a "chosen lifestyle" but a genetic predisposition.
>When I brought this up, my friend exploded and said that he found this
>premise threatening. If it's a genetic predisposition, then it can be
>"fixed" in the future by genetic tampering. He preferred, he said, to
>stick
I can't speak for others, but, given there is no non-biased proof why I (or
anyone) is gay, I see this most often as a lose-lose situation. If I support
the idea that it's a choice, then rapidly anti-gay groups will say "Ah ha!
You can and should change yourself to fit our norm." If I support the idea
that it's genetic, then the same groiups will say "Ah ha! A birth defect
like Down's Syndrom". Well, I've always been attracted to men, even as a
child (no, I was not molested, etc. etc. - I was 18 when I had my 1st sexual
encounter), so I am 100% convinced I was born gay. However, I'm also not a
"mistake" create by the universe.
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