Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxm.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!ihuxm!jtc78 From: jtc78@ihuxm.UUCP (Mike Cherepov) Newsgroups: net.motss Subject: Re: Re: Biological basis for homosexuality? (some ?? to S. Dyer) Message-ID: <1179@ihuxm.UUCP> Date: Thu, 13-Dec-84 11:52:49 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxm.1179 Posted: Thu Dec 13 11:52:49 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 14-Dec-84 06:49:23 EST References: <2159@randvax.UUCP> <1184@bbncca.ARPA> <663@amdahl.UUCP>, <1187@bbncca.ARPA> <1166@ihuxm.UUCP> <10205@watmath.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 34 > - Sophie >> Summary: you want gay tradition to be around forever, to be powerful. >> But you are not just as concerned with costs of keeping it around, >costs of keeping it around? huh? what are you talking about? But Steve was speculating about biological basis alone. It does not look like anybody thinks it is the only one, but if it were, you could say that being homosexual is similar to being a leftie. There are costs the world if paying for having leftie population - those conversion attempts, left-handed instruments, ... Would not it be nice to make everybody a rightie with one injection. For homosexuality there are: discrimination (best case), gay children - straight parent conflict... All specifically gay problems that gays experience. >****** FLAME ON ****** >How can you DARE say that the problems that heterosexual people might >have in finding mates might be more "serious" than problems homosexuals might the problems of the starving people less "serious" too by your definition. While appreciating your need to flame I would not subscribe to that bull. Given proportions of S. Dyer's topics ("eradicatoin of gay people") I meant big shift of male/female ratio. Major sociological, psychological, economical changes. For everyone. More wars? Matriarchy? More gays? Who knows. Asking about merits of gay tradition vs its problems is patronizing for a heterosexual? Give me a break. Mike Cherepov REPLIES to ihnp4!ihlpm!cher