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The most stupidest, dumb-assin'est thing I've ever heard. !!!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060626/ap_on_he_me/sexual_orientation

I'm sorry, but this sounds like bullshit to me. I've often wondered if there was a tendency for men who were only sons, raised by overbearing mothers, to be gay more often, but this? I just don't know. And that doesn't mean that I think being homosexual is environmental as opposed to biological. I find it very easy to believe that some people are born homosexual. I just don't think this 'older brother' theory holds up. 

In other news:

What made me laugh this morning:  I got a call this morning from a very upset old man, who said "So-n-so Minin' is a-haulin' coal outta the holler where we live up'air, an' an' an' the road's sa-dusty we cain' hardly see ta breathe!!"

I now return you to your regularly scheduled broadcast. I'll be in a Free Cell game, if you need me.

Comments

[leatheryoldbat.livejournal.com]

Like the old expression says: Figures don't lie but liars figure.

Statistics can be manipulated to "prove" almost anything...besides, the sample (944) is much too small to make any real statistical sense.

[sapphirescarlet.livejournal.com]

VERY good point. Thank you!

[leatheryoldbat.livejournal.com]

You're welcome....any time. :)

Interesting. Very interesting.

[nmechmpin.livejournal.com]

Greetings,

"Figures don't lie but liars figure."

I am going to have to remember that. :-D

-Lance

Re: Interesting. Very interesting.

[leatheryoldbat.livejournal.com]

It's attributed to Mark Twain....but nobody really knows for sure.

[slytherinsheirx.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. I mean... look at me.. lol.

I don't think it does either. How would having brothers or sisters increase or decrease the chances of being homosexual or heterosexual..

You could have four kids, and they could all be gay. Or they could all be straight or whatever comnination or sexuality you can think of.

He's escaping the key factor: We are all different, we don't need to be told and finally - Get over it.

lol.

*takes off the ranting hat*

[sapphirescarlet.livejournal.com]

ummmm hum!

[slytherinsheirx.livejournal.com]

Can I point out I was saying all that about we are different, in his general direction.

And did of what I said actually make sense?

[sapphirescarlet.livejournal.com]

In whose general direction? Yes, it did make sense. Perhaps moreso to those of us who know you.

[slytherinsheirx.livejournal.com]

The writer of the article's general direction. *grins*

Well I wasn't referring specifically to myself.. but.. *shrugs*

I'm very equal rights and all that... Don't see the point in being "Anti-Everybody-Who-is-Different-from-Me".

If you've seen my latest rant post about what Government or Somebody wants to do with books... You'll probably get the impression from that.

[sparkles25.livejournal.com]

this yahoo news was dumb lol it makes no sense to me

[covertamerican.livejournal.com]

Well, theories cannot really be proven - only disproven... so... however, I find the bit about the Rh negative mother very interesting as it applied in my pregnancy and my youngest is gay.

[kokopelleigh.livejournal.com]

"So-n-so Minin' is a-haulin' coal outta the holler where we live up'air, an' an' an' the road's sa-dusty we cain' hardly see ta breathe!!"

...and then he hung up from you and called *me*.
i swear, i get calls like that all.the.time.

[sapphirescarlet.livejournal.com]

I think we all do, working here in WV.

[nemecic.livejournal.com]

I agree with you. It is both nature and nurture and in the case of nurture, I think that it is more likely to become gay if you have a strong willed person of the opposite sex than a lot of siblings of the same sex as you.