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I guess there might be more interesting data there than they've given us in a short article but I probably haven't the brain to unpick it anyway, e.b. I can conclude only that I have the brain of a female mouse.
"Our findings may help answer an important question -- why do we feel male or female?" announces the quaintly named Dr. Eric Vilain. I would like to have "male" and "female" defined first, before getting too excited by his findings. Does anybody really think that "homosexual" as a label describes one specific biological condition and that every gay person is an identical clone?
I'm fine with people researching this. Knowledge is neutral. But the conclusions they draw from it often betray the underpinning motivations, as do the very questions they postulate to begin with.
Homosexuality is primarily a social concept, and of fairly recent origin as such. How could one neat and tidy clump of DNA code for this? I wonder what their definition of it was in the study? They identified the mice that didn't like football? Or those that sprayed the straw in the cages every day with Chanel's Allure for Men? Or did some of the mice break out of their cages every Friday night and head for Soho in their party frocks, with tiny little condoms in the pockets of their Dolce and Gabbana jeans?
Ganesh and I have already noticed that the rats around Vauxhall seem to be bigger and butcher than usual, which would qualify them for the plethora of local "bear" bars and clubs. The local squirrels are just as nancy as anywhere else though. Fluffy tails, sheesh... |
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