Comments on: Gay Sheep http://alex.golub.name/log/2007/02/12/gay-sheep/ Just. One. Column. Fri, 23 Dec 2011 01:04:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jd1 http://alex.golub.name/log/2007/02/12/gay-sheep/comment-page-1/#comment-81103 Jd1 Sat, 03 Mar 2007 08:24:09 +0000 http://alex.golub.name/log/2007/02/12/gay-sheep/#comment-81103 Alex, that's interesting. So what? Do we have secular humanist picking and choosing scientific gemes to affect a cosmological ordering of the universe a la Levi-Strauss? Gay Man: Straight Man Gay Sheep: Straight Sheep Seems like kind of a totemic ordering of the natural world according to "clan." Could you expand on your comment. What is ridiculous? What do you think is trying to be accomplished and why? What is wrong with the conclusions? Alex, that’s interesting. So what? Do we have secular humanist picking and choosing scientific gemes to affect a cosmological ordering of the universe a la Levi-Strauss?

Gay Man: Straight Man
Gay Sheep: Straight Sheep

Seems like kind of a totemic ordering of the natural world according to “clan.”

Could you expand on your comment. What is ridiculous? What do you think is trying to be accomplished and why? What is wrong with the conclusions?

]]> By: Alex http://alex.golub.name/log/2007/02/12/gay-sheep/comment-page-1/#comment-80406 Alex Sun, 25 Feb 2007 20:18:34 +0000 http://alex.golub.name/log/2007/02/12/gay-sheep/#comment-80406 I think this is interesting because it demonstrates the ridiculous lengths that people will go to link any scrap of 'scientific data' to their preconceived notions of biology and social identity. I post the piece because I use it as an example of how not to do science, social or otherwise. I think this is interesting because it demonstrates the ridiculous lengths that people will go to link any scrap of ‘scientific data’ to their preconceived notions of biology and social identity. I post the piece because I use it as an example of how not to do science, social or otherwise.

]]> By: sam http://alex.golub.name/log/2007/02/12/gay-sheep/comment-page-1/#comment-80008 sam Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:32:38 +0000 http://alex.golub.name/log/2007/02/12/gay-sheep/#comment-80008 I think it's interesting because it yet again links homosexuality and biology. There are quite a few far-righters who seem to think homosexuality is a choice, when these new findings are actually pointing towards what homosexuals have been saying all along: that it's what they've always been. I think it’s interesting because it yet again links homosexuality and biology. There are quite a few far-righters who seem to think homosexuality is a choice, when these new findings are actually pointing towards what homosexuals have been saying all along: that it’s what they’ve always been.

]]> By: RBL http://alex.golub.name/log/2007/02/12/gay-sheep/comment-page-1/#comment-78873 RBL Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:42:48 +0000 http://alex.golub.name/log/2007/02/12/gay-sheep/#comment-78873 I will freely confess that this sort of thing leaves me, well, cold. My basic reaction is pretty much the same as when Ellen came out: "that's nice, sweetie. Why should I care?" I will freely confess that this sort of thing leaves me, well, cold. My basic reaction is pretty much the same as when Ellen came out: “that’s nice, sweetie. Why should I care?”

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