Since 99.999% of gay men are born of and raised by heterosexual men and women, we can assume that those were the first roles they were exposed to duri...
No, we don't know--but there are some clues about what might be happening in pre-natal development. For instance, gay men tend to have older brothers....
Some homosexual boys and men display stereotypical masculine affect, style, and public behavior. They are "virile", they are macho, the are mechanics,...
With caution and trepidation (heated reactions out there) may I mildly suggest that 58 gender options is bullshit. This multiplication of categories r...
Many people think their sexual orientation is natural -- it's a given of nature, whether they are gay or straight. You say (correctly) that some presu...
In the area of race relations, there is very little high ground for ANY American to occupy. Most Americans are beneficiaries of the Aboriginal America...
Sure you do. You stole spaghetti from China, meatballs from Sweden, Tomatoes from the Mexicans, and you have such beautiful women because the Romans s...
We are daily insulted and injured by racist Europeans, African Americans, and western hemisphere natives who insist that Columbus discovered America, ...
I don't think so either, but they moved remarkable swiftly GIVEN the enormous logistical problems of supply both armies had to cope with. Just think a...
Process matters. As far as I know, very few people in Minneapolis associate Lake Calhoun with John C., slavery, states' rights, or anything else. It i...
I'm on board for big changes. I want to see a livable world for future generations, and not just far future generations. "Screwed either way" because ...
It will be easy to identify neo-nazi views--they are (supposedly) outside commonly recognized norms of rational thinking. Racism, homophobia, and sexi...
Hey, I found both Trump's actual behavior and his own reported behavior toward women during the campaign to be quite wrong. I don't know whether Agust...
And that is the tangle we get into when trying to lay down rules about how men and women can talk about alleged sexual/gender differences, imagined se...
Is it bad to say that women aren't ruthless, aggressive, and competitive enough? When did ruthless aggressive competitiveness become a virtue to be pr...
Agustino is speculating about how women on TV (not all women in general) secretly desire to be humiliated by Trump. He notes that this is hypocritical...
Mongrel concluded her learned comments with "Hey Bitter Crank. Why don't you go fuck yourself?" This confused Mr. Dogar: I didn't feel any lacerations...
Is that some sort of sick joke? Sardines are fine either straight from the can or in spaghetti sauce on pasta; I can't quite imagine them on toast. Ma...
It isn't the case that no solutions can be suggested; suggestions have been made. There are two problems with the suggestions: The tolerable suggestio...
Meanwhile, In Durham, NC protestors (from various leftist organizations like IWW, Workers World Party, etc.) pulled down a statue of an ordinary confe...
You also: go get the quote and put it up for examination. Why should anyone take your word for it? (And please differentiate between what Trump said a...
Mongrel, are you experiencing thinning skin? It's a real hazard for anyone participating in a public forum, even this quite civilized, moderated one. ...
Some of the white supremacists (e.g., the Ku Klux Klan) also have a thing about Catholics who, in the United States, are mostly white. White racists t...
This post is your most compelling argument against keeping the statue. The quote from Lee's letter is a good display of the justifying reasoning at le...
Who am I? You know that's an awfully complicated question. I still don't get what you are up to. Never mind. I'm a 70+ year old accumulation of "who a...
There were lackluster teachers and indifferent students (like me) when I was in school over 50 years ago. I was very lucky to get firmly directed towa...
The lady who was most unfortunately killed, ("Heather D. Heyer, a paralegal who was killed on Saturday, was a passionate advocate for the disenfranchi...
Who, these days, "abhors" Benedict Arnold? Maybe he wasn't as craven as some would have it. As you no doubt are aware, the Civil War was an ambiguous ...
If you want to argue for reparations, a better focus would be national housing policy between the 1930s (under FDR) and the 1980s when the Federal Gov...
In 1961 John F. Kennedy issued the first "affirmative action executive order" and Johnson followed up later with enforcement. Past injustices were, no...
The justification for reparations is gradually erased by time. Time doesn't make injustice into justice, but the connection between the last generatio...
And to whom? To the descendants of "white trash" indentured servants who were cleaned off the streets of England and shipped over here? To the descend...
At least when I was in high school (back in the carboniferous period) there was little to no instruction on ordinary economic life. Geography is the b...
Education standards in middle and high school should require competence in "general education". The subjects of "general education" include (minimum) ...
Well, Thorongil, this is the sum and substance of school for a good share of the population. I've said elsewhere that maybe 20% of students get a good...
Some things should be memorized, like: the name, capitol of, location, and the graphic shape of each state the name, capitol of, location, and the gra...
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