The Darwinian Paradox: Conflating Sex and Gender

[nudewoody]

Sociobiologists and evolutionary psychologists view sexual orientation as a basic structural component of mating behavior and therefore crucial to the evolutionary health of the species. Scientists therefore seek to identify a biological basis for explaining variations in human sexual orientation. These scientists persist in using Darwin’s sexual

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[sig_info]

Darwinian theory cannot explain the persistence of genetic factors favoring homosexuality.

Cannot, or has not? The former is a dogmatic pronouncement, the latter an admission that there are things we do not yet know.

That's what makes this topic so interesting; we might learn something unexpected and new.

[nudewoody]

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[bufftuff]

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Re: Gay men have evolved into a special, carrying, hunky omegamale

[nudewoody]

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[beastbriskett]

Great essay, Woody!
The gender role prejudice really skews not the only the results of research, but the questions the research are trying to answer. Those scientists grew up and were educated with those assumptions, and future generations may be more expansive in their thinking.

[nudewoody]

Thanks!

[puptabasco]

Where am I in this?

[nudewoody]

good question, I think most of them are still seeing you even more then homosexuals as a defective deviation. When may I see you BTW?

[puptabasco]

Yes, we should hang out soon. I keep thinking about you and wishing you had one of those electronic tethers (aka cell phone) so I can see if you're free in the moment ;-) But we should plan something out. I'll give you a call on landline or drop you an email.

The interesting thing about this is that while these researchers would see me as being more deviant than non-trans homosexuals, the existence of gay trans-people forces hard questions to be asked about the research done. I don't expect phobic researchers to get that a gay transman is in fact a gay man but community can.

[nudewoody]

well, some of those researchers are 'community'