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Author Topic: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O  (Read 14854232 times)

Reelya

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #72525 on: March 22, 2015, 01:51:53 pm »

choosing to be whatever (lgbt)

Observation: there's strong evidence it's genetic.

No, epigenetic.  The statistical incidence of male homosexuality goes up, the more male child births preceeded the male in question's birth (from the same mother).

Meaning, if you are an only child, and male-- not likely to be gay.
If you are the 17th child of all boys, you are quite likely to be gay.

Notably, it's not social. Having many older adopted brothers does not affect the chances whatsoever. Only biological brothers, and it even holds if they're raised apart. So it holds biologically, but not socially.

From a population dynamics point of view - this could actually be beneficial to the group. If there is a large excess of males born, then more of them would be gay, thus reducing competitive pressure for the females. Since we live in a social species those excess males are still contributing to group survival. So this is something that could actually have evolved for, since the younger brothers won't be competing with the older brothers in this case, making the original mother's dna line more likely to survive. This answers a problem with "gay genes": if a gene stops you breeding why doesn't it just die out? The clear answer is that the gene only comes into play in specific circumstances. After all, there are many species where only a small number of individuals breed, and their population dynamics are clearly understood to be inherited.

There is also strong evidence that females of all mammal species can rig the gender of their offspring based on environmental needs. If there is abundant food supply, then having a male child can theoretically produce more offspring (since they will be strong and can mate with multiple females), and if food supply is low, then having a female child is a better guarantee of offspring. They've done some studies to show that this seems to be the case.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #72526 on: March 22, 2015, 01:58:11 pm »

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« Reply #72527 on: March 22, 2015, 02:00:11 pm »

Under this theory, are lesbians and firstborn gays a separate, yet-unexplained phenomenon?
No.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #72528 on: March 22, 2015, 02:05:53 pm »

Booty Call of Cthulu is a great pune or play on words, though.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #72529 on: March 22, 2015, 02:08:37 pm »

I believe he was referring to the pune part.
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« Reply #72530 on: March 22, 2015, 02:09:51 pm »

Under this theory, are lesbians and firstborn gays a separate, yet-unexplained phenomenon?

Well, lesbians have the weird finger-length thing, that is also a marker for pre-natal testosterone exposure.
https://fingerlengthdigitratio.wordpress.com/tag/lesbians/
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Various studies have shown that babies exposed to higher levels of testosterone when developing in the uterus have longer ring fingers as adults, and higher levels of oestrogen typically result in longer pointer fingers....In 2010 a Meta-analysis studyby researchers from the University of Ontario, Penn State, and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health found that the second to fourth finger length ratio (2D:4D) serves as an indicator of sexual orientation. The study included 1.618 heterosexual men, 1.693 heterosexual women, 1.503 gay men, and 1.014 lesbians.

In addition to identifying the normative heterosexual sex difference in 2D:4D for both hands, the researchers found that heterosexual women had higher (more feminine) left- and right-hand 2D:4D than did lesbians. However… the researchers found NO difference between heterosexual and gay men


The fraternal-birth-order affect explains 15% of variation in homosexuality in males. But we can only speculate to the overall reasons something exists. Species survival has never required 100% of offspring to breed, just enough breed to replace the previous generation. With an intelligent social species like ours, it might be that in pre-history there was an optimal number of breeders below 100% for a specific population size, so homosexuality evolved to regulate the number of breeders, and things like the fraternal birth order effect are a fine-tuning mechanism. It's quite plausible, since most social species don't have 100% of individuals breeding.
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« Reply #72531 on: March 22, 2015, 02:15:56 pm »

I almost feel like Zicit is trolling Fanfiction.net too. This troll account certainly has his... style.
Link is safe for work, by the way. Fanfiction.net only has text on posted stories
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« Reply #72532 on: March 22, 2015, 02:43:58 pm »

I highly doubt he is the only person with that particular style.

I would believe it if it had the same "NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER" thing going on, but I don't see any.
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« Reply #72533 on: March 22, 2015, 02:46:11 pm »

I highly doubt he is the only person with that particular style.

I would believe it if it had the same "NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER" thing going on, but I don't see any.

I know it's not the same person, but it just reminded me of him.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #72534 on: March 22, 2015, 03:09:23 pm »

Youtube keeps giving me breastfeeding videos on the recommended section.  I would understand if I watched even one, because youtube likes to pick and choose recommended videos at complete random based on stuff you watched half a year ago, but I cannot remember ever doing so. 
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #72535 on: March 22, 2015, 03:13:04 pm »

Sure that you didn't make a search for breasts at some point?
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« Reply #72536 on: March 22, 2015, 03:18:01 pm »

Clearly google believes you're about to become a mother.

Congrats.

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« Reply #72537 on: March 22, 2015, 03:19:14 pm »

Clearly google believes you're about to become a mother.

Congrats.
Yeah I'm pretty sure it does actually do stuff like that. Tries to interpret things from your browsing habits.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #72538 on: March 22, 2015, 03:23:53 pm »

Odd, I thought sodomy referred to just male-on-male anal, mainly since that in the Bible the city of Sodom's male population was mostly supposedly gay

The older definition considered all non-vaginal sex to be sodomy, iirc.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #72539 on: March 22, 2015, 03:24:05 pm »

Clearly google believes you're about to become a mother.

Congrats.
Yeah I'm pretty sure it does actually do stuff like that. Tries to interpret things from your browsing habits.
Seems to combine the worst parts of stupidity and smartness together - smart enough to recognize existing correlation, stupid enough to not recognize its insignificance in relation to the other things.
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