Patrick1000
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This should put it in perspective
This should put it in perspective.
Ask yourself the question Eddie Dane as to whether or not heterosexuality is "genetic". If your answer is neither yes nor no, based on the fact the question doesn't really make any sense to begin with, then you would have to conclude the same is true in asking the question about homosexuality being "genetic". The answer is NO because the question is meaningless.
That whole angle, homosexuality is in the DNA, grew out of the insane discrimination still evident in our community. If one could effectively argue "genetics!!!!", the argument goes, then the "guilty parties", the gay women and men, were in a sense exculpated. It's not their fault. This is what is at root of the "genetic defense" for homosexuality. It is not something grounded in science, but rather grounded in our culture's harmful bias toward gay women and men, and a need for a response to that bias. The genetic response is understandable viewed in this sense, the need for SOME ANSWER, some defensible rationale in support of gay men and women given the discrimination, but this doesn't make the DNA argument true, or even partially true. It is, as emphasized, meaningless. If one is gay, so be it, so it is, and no "defense" should be or is required.
So the whole genetics thing is quite literally silly. Of course it is not their "fault", the fault of a woman or man loving a member of the same sex in a deep romantic sense. This is fundamentally who they are, and appeals to genetics are nothing short of ridiculous, though one can easily see rationale for such arguments, the root of the dynamic.
If you are straight, ask yourself if your "straightness" is in your genes. I suspect your answer will be, "NO, and I don't even really understand the question."
This should put it in perspective.
Ask yourself the question Eddie Dane as to whether or not heterosexuality is "genetic". If your answer is neither yes nor no, based on the fact the question doesn't really make any sense to begin with, then you would have to conclude the same is true in asking the question about homosexuality being "genetic". The answer is NO because the question is meaningless.
That whole angle, homosexuality is in the DNA, grew out of the insane discrimination still evident in our community. If one could effectively argue "genetics!!!!", the argument goes, then the "guilty parties", the gay women and men, were in a sense exculpated. It's not their fault. This is what is at root of the "genetic defense" for homosexuality. It is not something grounded in science, but rather grounded in our culture's harmful bias toward gay women and men, and a need for a response to that bias. The genetic response is understandable viewed in this sense, the need for SOME ANSWER, some defensible rationale in support of gay men and women given the discrimination, but this doesn't make the DNA argument true, or even partially true. It is, as emphasized, meaningless. If one is gay, so be it, so it is, and no "defense" should be or is required.
So the whole genetics thing is quite literally silly. Of course it is not their "fault", the fault of a woman or man loving a member of the same sex in a deep romantic sense. This is fundamentally who they are, and appeals to genetics are nothing short of ridiculous, though one can easily see rationale for such arguments, the root of the dynamic.
If you are straight, ask yourself if your "straightness" is in your genes. I suspect your answer will be, "NO, and I don't even really understand the question."
I am sexually attracted to women, but almost entirely 
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