This bit of news should be filed under the ridiculous category. I find it incredible that people would actually believe that watching a cartoon about sea creatures is some sort of recruitment tactic to being gay. As if being gay is catching. As if being heterosexual means you can switch to being gay. Or vice versa for that matter. Bisexualism is another story, of which I understand very little.
Are people really that dumb to believe that watching a cartoon can actually influence children to become gay? I shouldn’t ask that question because I really don’t want to know the answer. Please, no comments that would actually support my hypothesis that people are that dumb.
Despite my complaints about being a graduate student, the scientist in me just won’t go away: I couldn’t help but research homosexual behavior in mammals other than humans. Homosexual behavior in mammals is widely documented, although the why, just like for humans, is not understood at all. From reading a book review in the scientific publication Nature, I’m guessing that most biologists and evolutions still think of sex as only an end to biological reproduction. The author who wrote the review, Dr. Paul H. Harvey, a zoologist from Oxford, clearly seems to share this view. Toward the end of the article, he says he cannot follow the logic that in some populations it is advantageous evolutionarily to not reproduce. He acts as if he’s never heard of social behavior in wolf packs, for instance, where ONLY the alphas mate and produce a littler. That is the most common example in the animal kingdom that I can think of. There are more examples from the insect lineage: bees and wasps, for example. You’ve all heard of the queen bee, right? That’s high school biology. The queen bee is the only bee in a colony that reproduces. All the other bees are workers and/or nannies. Evolutionists are still trying to figure out why this type of social behavior is evolutionarily advantageous. Purer genetic strain? More fit for a particular environment? More competitive for resources than the neighbors? There are lots of ideas that may make sense. However, it may be time for scientists to reconsider our basic assumptions about the role of sex in evolution.
Here’s the article in Nature I referred to — you’ll need Acrobat reader to download it: Download homosexuality_in_mammals.pdf
The whole Sponge Bob thing turns my stomach with disgust at the stupidity of it all. I did enjoy your PDF on mammal transgender behavior. I have a gut level feeling that if we weren’t “civilized” most of us would probably be bisexual.