World X-Men and Homosexuality: The Connection

[E. Bison]

hermaphrodites to pedophiles and sex offenders. How many people can you offend here?

you didn't read anything correctly. I said hermaphrodites and intersex people are the only ones born that way. Pedophiles and criminals are not.

 

[Kritish]

Ok, lets start with the obvious. If you are trying to have an adult conversation about a heated current issue, can we please stop with the Street Fighter pictures.

Second, you stated earlier that going from Homosexuality to heterosexuality, was as easy as a meat eater becoming a vegetarian. Now your saying that it is not easy at all, but in fact, difficult.

Also, your now comparing hermaphrodites to pedophiles and sex offenders. How many people can you offend here?

He can't it's his trademark on the hype.

 

[newwaveboy87]

bumpage

 

[Kritish]

Every minority latches on the the X-men and claims it as there own.

 

[littyx]

^ No ones claiming anything as "their own". Its a simple comparison. No one said X-Men and homosexuality are synonymous.

 

[newwaveboy87]

what Gary said.

this thread was based on purely ONE example. so it has evolved from that original goal, oh well. things tend to do that.

 

[Kritish]

The actual truth, the X-men was based on the civil rights movement by Stan Lee as an attempt to teach tolerance to kids.

 

[newwaveboy87]

everyone knows this...
the comic storyline has since involved into an allegory for any repressed minority.

 

[pyromaniac]

The actual truth, the X-men was based on the civil rights movement by Stan Lee as an attempt to teach tolerance to kids.

Tolerance being the operative, general word.

If you'd heard about Sir Ian Mckellen drawing on the same basis, as well as Halle Berry and Brett Ratner and so forth - you'd be inclined to open that mind a little more, if I were you.

That it's inclusive to all who chooses to feel a point of identification and relation with a minority that's long often in the throes of persecution, prejudice and fear.

Ring any bells?

 

[newwaveboy87]

http://channels.netscape.com/whatsnew/default.jsp?story=20060521-0700

Men may be homosexual because of their mother's genes. Scientists from the University of California at Los Angeles have found that the genetics of mothers who have multiple gay sons act differently than those of other women, reports HealthDay News.

Basically, it works like this: Every woman carries two X chromosomes, even though they only require one of them. So the human body routinely inactivates one of those X chromosomes at random. Normally, what happens is half of the X chromosomes go one way, while the second half go the other way. "It's like flipping a coin," study co-author Sven Bocklandt told HealthDay News. "If you look at a woman in any given (bodily) tissue, you'd expect about half of the cells to inactivate one X, and half would inactivate the other."

In this study of 97 mothers of gay sons and 103 mothers who did not have gay sons, 25 percent of the 44 women who had more than one gay son also processed their X chromosomes differently than normal. "When we looked at women who have gay kids, in those with more than one gay son, we saw a quarter of them inactivate the same X in virtually every cell we checked," Bocklandt explained to HealthDay News. "That's extremely unusual." Only 4 percent of the moms whose sons were not gay inactivated the chromosome in this way, as did 13 percent of the mothers who had just one gay son. Bocklandt said this phenomenon is typically seen only in families with major genetic irregularities. He said the research "confirms that there is a strong genetic basis for sexual orientation, and that for some gay men, genes on the X chromosome are involved."

This isn't the final answer. As Dr. Ionel Sandovici, a genetics researcher at The Babraham Institute in Cambridge, England, pointed out to HealthDay News, most of the mothers of multiple gay sons didn't share the unusual X-chromosome trait. In addition, the study is small. The study findings were published in the journal Human Genetics.

interesting...

 

[littyx]

Yeah, I was just learning about this on my Sociology of Human Sexuality class. Even though I knew about it before the class. Also, for every son a couple has, that son is 33% more likely to be gay. Its true, look it up. That is one thing that scientists have studied that seems to be true every time.

 

[newwaveboy87]

poor mothers...

 

[squeekness]

I know a lesbian who had two gay brothers. Have they looked at moms who have not only gay sons but gay daughters as well?

 

[newwaveboy87]

no idea.
but that's a good question.

 

[squeekness]

At least my friend was blessed with an understanding mom. She and her siblings were all well accepted and loved just as they were.

 

[newwaveboy87]

i'm not gonna lie, i feel a little sorry for mothers with gay children.

 

[squeekness]

Why? No grandkids?

 

[newwaveboy87]

pretty much.
mothers worry about their kids anyway, and then you add on the whole gay thing and it's huge set of problems. do you know the statistics of teen suicide related to homosexuality!?

 

[squeekness]

No, but I imagine it's quite high. The idea of it makes me angry. I hate that society puts such stigmas on people that they are driven to it. Who are we to judge other people?

 

[newwaveboy87]

they are high, WAY too high in fact.

 

[squeekness]

The sad part is, in cases like this, someone like me could direct a person who is feeling suicidal to look towards God for some guidence. I can't do that here because so many of those so called people of God are the worst spreaders of the hate.

 

[newwaveboy87]

indeed.
isn't it ironic...and completely against their religious beliefs.

 

[squeekness]

Yup. A sign that not all is well in God's house. Hopefully Jesus will come and sort it all out someday.

 

[newwaveboy87]

i have a feeling he'd come down and yell "THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT!!"

 

[squeekness]

I think so too. About a lot of things.