MoPod Show 2.0 - Gay Comedy Podcast

My roommate and I were just having a discussion about genetics and being gay. Basically, the pro’s and con’s from a social and political standpoint. If you are genetically gay, then it isn’t a choice right? So, failure to accept constitutes discrimination based on traits similar to race, cankles, or red hair. Even with that, sometimes I think I would rather look at being gay is more psycho-social. (and when I say psycho social I don’t mean Ruphus after 3 Jäger bombs). I mean being gay IS a part of who I am, but it feels like it is part of my social or even spiritual being. Its a complicated subject, for sure. I just worry about the negative implications of genetically identifying gay people. Would genetic counselors help couples avoid having gay children? If they knew their child would have the “sparkle gene”, would parents send them to ex-gay nursery schools?

So not five minutes after that discussion, I see a link online to a TIME magazine article suggesting that there are physical differences in the brains of gay and straight men. The big idea….

Scans of the brains of gay men in the study, however, showed that their hemispheres were relatively symmetrical, like those of straight women, while the brains of homosexual women were asymmetrical like those of straight men.

Your thoughts?