Won't somebody think of the gay sheep?
Sep. 5th, 2006 01:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beautifulduckweedVia Pharyngula, PETA has a bee in their bonnet (hur hur) about a study involving gay sheep, and in the process, use some pretty nasty invective. A more accurate and much less hysterical explanation for what Dr. Roselli is trying to do can be found at The Next Hurrah.
For what it's worth, though I think PETA is jumping to some pretty hasty conclusions--they must've dumped a gallon of KY on that slope, it's so goddamn slippery--I do think that it's a logical extension of the implications of the research. If scientists do manage to find biological bases for homosexuality, and if physiological therapy can actively switch somebody's sexual orientation...well, I can imagine some of the extremists pushing for a "cure," if the cultural environment will allow it. (This doesn't make sense to me, of course; in my opinion, a cure for homogaiety is about as sensible as trying to cure, say, blue eyes, or the ability to raise one eyebrow higher than the other.) However, I'm somewhat optimistic; we've been moving away from the whole "homosexuality is a disease" viewpoint for a while now, even though we still have a long, long way to go.
In the meanwhile, bisexual sheep are largely ignored, and treated as indiscriminately slutty and/or indecisive about whether they're male- or female-oriented. The whores.
For what it's worth, though I think PETA is jumping to some pretty hasty conclusions--they must've dumped a gallon of KY on that slope, it's so goddamn slippery--I do think that it's a logical extension of the implications of the research. If scientists do manage to find biological bases for homosexuality, and if physiological therapy can actively switch somebody's sexual orientation...well, I can imagine some of the extremists pushing for a "cure," if the cultural environment will allow it. (This doesn't make sense to me, of course; in my opinion, a cure for homogaiety is about as sensible as trying to cure, say, blue eyes, or the ability to raise one eyebrow higher than the other.) However, I'm somewhat optimistic; we've been moving away from the whole "homosexuality is a disease" viewpoint for a while now, even though we still have a long, long way to go.
In the meanwhile, bisexual sheep are largely ignored, and treated as indiscriminately slutty and/or indecisive about whether they're male- or female-oriented. The whores.
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Date: 2006-09-05 09:13 pm (UTC)didn't i see a bad movie, this summer, about some "cure"?
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Date: 2006-09-05 09:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-05 09:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-05 09:39 pm (UTC)I didn't think it was that bad. It was, as far as it goes, a decent B-movie sort of a venture. I went in expecting fluffy action-adventure with lots of improbable stunts, and that's pretty much what I got.
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Date: 2006-09-05 09:50 pm (UTC)Also... what took place (moving a bridge to cross the river insead of just floating some large piece of metal across it), was just silly. I can suspend disbelief, but only so far before I start to go cross eyed.
Enough is enough
Date: 2006-09-07 04:06 pm (UTC)I've had it with these motherfucking smaller hypothalamus glands on this motherfucking snake.
Queer as Flock
Date: 2006-09-05 11:22 pm (UTC)And who's to say which strange is normal and which is too strange?
Whateva! It's my hot ungulate body and I'll screw what I want.
Re: Queer as Flock
Date: 2006-09-05 11:51 pm (UTC)p.s. I knew those bisexual sheep were just SLUTTTTS.