just read confessions of a mask by Mishima ravenously on the beach in 2 evenings without stopping and it's like every time you (I) turn the page you (I) get so horribly read, so invaded by another's understanding of and similarity to you that you (I) can't possibly recover any sense of dignity. and you're (I am) like: "surely he can't know everything about me. SURELY we aren't fated to follow in the same tragic footsteps of our forebearers!" and then you turn the page and it happens again. it's like the exact opposite of that thing baldwin said about being comforted by the knowledge that someone else already experienced your same shit. it's perverse!
Why Didn't Evolution Remove Homosexuality? -- Human Condition
TW: mentions of sex and sexual violence; AI images.
Apologies in advance, since this video relies heavily on AI-generated images. It is a shame, and I hate that. But the actual content of the video is still too interesting to ignore.
Read my comment below the cut.
AFTER WATCHING THE VIDEO, I feel the creator and most people in the comments there on YT are forgetting some important factors:
1) Bisexuals exist and reproduce, and we make up about half of the LGBTQIAP+ population.
2) Gay men and women often marry and have children because society forces them to hide who they are.
3) Sexual violence also exists, and throughout history and pre-history, many lesbians have been raped and forced to have children they did not choose, and gay men have been forced to "man up" and "prove their worth as males" by raping women, for example as an invading army. Asexual and sex-averse people also often get forced to have sex. Sexual violence in the animal kingdom is also fairly common, with many males forcing unwilling females.
As long as researchers only look for "gay" and "lesbian" genes as an explanation, they will never find a satisfying answer to this question. Look deeper. Include the whole LGBTQIAP+ spectrum (gay, lesbian, bi, trans, queer, intersex, asexual, polysexual, etc.). Include both the positive and negative social factors (the gay uncle theory, but also the social bonding of bonobos, and sexual violence, and social repression of diverse sexuality). Look at the big picture and at many different possible answers working simultaneously for a combined solution to this question.
--Wordsmith of Doom
UPDATE: I found this study that suggests sexual orientation may actually be determined in the womb, and not be dependent on genetics: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10757681/
suggestive warning guys!!!!!!! you have been warned...
"stop sharing yaoi!!"
t-t-t-that's why I put a warning... TT /ref
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It's weird that so many gay men have bought into, at least publicly, this idea that sexual orientation is attached to an "imaginary gender identity." You could say I'm an unapologetic militant homosexual.
I see Homophobia 2.0 for what it is-the shaming of gay men and lesbians for being despicable "genital fetishists."
Trans men are women.
Trans women are men.
And we thought Christians were our worst enemy.
The big lie being fed to young people is "Trans women of color" are responsible for gay men's rights.
In Romans 1, the sin that Paul highlights is homosexuality (see 1:26-27), a sin that not only violates the Mosaic Law in an ethical way but which is demonstrably contrary to the nature of human biology and sexuality.
In a similar way, Creon's impious decision to leave a dead man unburied and to bury a living woman violates both ethical codes of conduct and the essential nature of human morality.
By violating both, Creon ends up stranding himself, isolated and alone, in a dead world. Human life cannot thrive and grow apart from that higher moral law that binds together man and God, man and man, and man and nature.
- Louis Markos, 'The Myth Made Fact: Reading Greek and Roman Mythology through Christian Eyes'
