Re: Which 8-Bit system is "the most" gay ???

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <1fzq7qc.dmkbbyec6tfcN%email@luddite.ca>,
Simon Williams <email@luddite.ca> wrote:
 
> Paul Schlyter <pausch@saaf.se> wrote:
>  
>> OTOH if being gay is purely in the genes, why are people gay at all?
>> I mean, since gay people don't get biological children for obvious
>> reasons, those genes ought to have become extinct long long ago.
>> True, today we can inseminate -- but that's a quite recent invention,
>> and the gay genes ought to have become extinct long before that.
> 
> Not necessarily... by the same logic, genes that result in fatal birth
> defects should also be self-limiting, but there is ample evidence to the
> contrary. Presumably the "gay gene" would be a recessive.
> Also, it is not that uncommon for folks to "come out" after marrying and
> begetting young, thus propagating said genes.
 
Those who do so are not 100% gay -- they're bi-sexual.  Otherwise, if
they felt forced to marry due to pressure from society, it would have
been a white marriage - and such a marriage does not produce children.


 
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