I was watching "The View" yesterday, that what happens when you are home all day. They were talking about the "Gay" Genetic link. They say researchers have been studying brain structures of humans. Here is the amazing discovery. Gay men and straight women's brains look alike, as do lesbians and straight men. How stupid. I for one, know I am nothing like a straight man. I am a girly girl. I ask for directions, I despise sports, hate the taste of beer and am not visually stimulated (porn just confuses me). The only way I am like a man is I hate relationship talk, you know when your DP/DW says "honey we need to talk about communication". Well then I would rather watch TV.
And where do they find all these 100% gay and straight women. I believe sexuality is a continuum. Everyone falls somewhere in between, you know 80/20, 78/22, etc... How do those brain look? I identify as lesbian and find women much more attractive than men. But, I find the occasional man attractive and once was in a loving relationship with a man (although the bedroom was a bore). I would never rule anything 100% out. I have a friend who identifies as straight, an has a couple times been with a girl. She says "I am straight, but who doesn't like boobs?"
I think sexuality has lot of grey areas and that makes people uncomfortable. People need to believe people are either gay or straight and that they are that way from birth. That makes it easier for straight identified people to accept. And that makes gay people feel justified in being who they are. I personally don't care why people love who they love, my own intuition says it is probably a mingling of nature and life experiences. But, it doesn't matter. People just love who they love. Let's just celebrate who we are and leave science out of it. Maybe researchers could look for a discrimination gene and we could eradicate that.
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Yiu should title it The View Annoys Me!!!!! The sexual continuum is exactly as you think. there is a spectrum. Yes brains may have differences in extreme people I think ALL extreme people probably have brain function differences. I am one who is much more girly girl and who ALWAYS wants to do the relationship talk thing, I also love to build and fix things around the house. There are no absolutes.
But hey, don't get mad at science (former science here) because it isn't science that is the issue here. It is twits funding research trying to make their research prove their hypothesis. Get annoyed at the researchers, the funders, but please not science.
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You are right they should not be funding crappy studies like that. I am a former qualitative social scientest. So, sometimes I get easilt annoyed at quantitative research, I hate it when people claim absolutes.
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