Sunday, September 25, 2011

Don't Ask Don't Tell - Get Over It

The evidence is overwhelming that sexual preference is hardwired at birth. We are born to respond to the shapes and appearances that we are hardwired to respond to. Some males will then find males more attractive. Some females will find females more attractive. Don't believe it? Look at peoples' response to infants. We are all hardwired to respond to the infant shape, the infant face - in fact almost any mammalia infant will tug at our hearts strings. We didn't learn that - it's hard wired. As is sexual preference.

We know who we are attracted to - it's not something that has to be taught. They tell us that is the result of complex brain interactions and function centered on things like facial symmetry. It's for sure alot more complicated than that - but for sure it's hardwired. As is sexual preference.

There is a heterogeneity to this. It's not - your attracted to males or your attracted to females. There are shades of gray. Homophobes probably have more gray than they can handle. These feelings threaten. Feeling threatened makes people angry. Probably most people are hardwired to respond primarily to the opposite sex. But this does not make other preferences 'unnatural'.

Being gay is just being who you are. It's not unnatural, or deviant, or the result of being oversexed, or evil, or godless, or mentally ill - although after putting up with what society puts you through for being born gay one could certainly feel that way at times. Gays are gay - born that way. Get over it.

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