Excuse me if this is stupid, I'm very tired and it's hard for me to follow the whole discussion online, but are you saying that you don't believe being gay has a brain-chemistry-related component, or that being gay might have such a component but it's not the be-all and end-all of sexuality? I am not looking to pick an argument either way, I just want to know what you think.
I do not believe that any newborn baby is born with DNA that inherently makes them any more likely to grow up to be queer than any other newborn baby.
Does that answer your question? Brains do grow and change dramatically in response to the social environment over a person's (or a sheep's) lifetime, and therefore it is theoretically possible that choosing to be queer (or the social circumstances which provoked one to choose to be queer, or resulted from one's having chosen to be queer) would alter one's brain in a visible manner - possibly even a sheep's brain, though the implications of "queerness" for a sheep would I suspect contain vastly less homophobia. I do think it is extremely unlikely that these reearchers have actually found such a brain difference that actually does have anything at all to do with queerness - but I don't want to say that there isn't any brain difference to be found, because anytime you think anything at all something different happens in your brain, so obviously there's a difference on some tiny level at least. I just do not believe that anyone's (or any sheep's, even) DNA predisposed it to happen.
Brava, Gayle. You argued bravely, sincerely, and convincingly where I would have probably just thrown a hissy fit. Thank you for representing my sexuality with such grace.
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Does that answer your question? Brains do grow and change dramatically in response to the social environment over a person's (or a sheep's) lifetime, and therefore it is theoretically possible that choosing to be queer (or the social circumstances which provoked one to choose to be queer, or resulted from one's having chosen to be queer) would alter one's brain in a visible manner - possibly even a sheep's brain, though the implications of "queerness" for a sheep would I suspect contain vastly less homophobia. I do think it is extremely unlikely that these reearchers have actually found such a brain difference that actually does have anything at all to do with queerness - but I don't want to say that there isn't any brain difference to be found, because anytime you think anything at all something different happens in your brain, so obviously there's a difference on some tiny level at least. I just do not believe that anyone's (or any sheep's, even) DNA predisposed it to happen.
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mind if I add you as a friend? =)
~Sarianna
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