We received an important press release from Dr. Paul Cameron, who is a Very Important Scientist with a Ph.D. and everything. Somehow, we had never heard of him until he, acting as his own PR flack, emailed our benevolent Editrix, but he really is quite a piece of work -- there aren't a lot of social psychologists who've been written up
<i>Many decent people, even at fine schools like Yale and Ohio State, are simply unaware that the science has long indicated the Senator&rsquo;s son and others were not born gay</i> You can read more about these findings in The Journal of Wishful Thinking.
True story: I once asked to borrow a neighbor&#039;s phone in 1993, when cordless phones were becoming common. I couldn&#039;t figure out how to operate it. Neighbor said &quot;You need a Ph.D. to work this phone&quot;. I said &quot;Uh, about that.....&quot;
BAH! Fuck this fucking censor that doesn&#039;t allow me to say the word &quot;out right&quot; as one word. FUUUUUCKKKK!
ETA: Seriously. Fucking censorbot is majorly ticking me off right now. That&#039;s two substantive, well-reasoned, entirely unobscene comments that have been eaten because they just happened to contain a particular four letter sequence that&#039;s been deemed the most offensive thing ever even when embedded in the middle of other perfectly innocent words. Now I totally know how the town of Scunthorpe must&#039;ve felt when the earliest net nannys bounced it off the web because they too were stupid.
<blockquote>Morten Frisch says, &quot;It is a novel observation that being married was not always protective. Among persons living alone and persons living in same-sex cohabitation, those who were married to a member of the opposite sex had noticeably higher mortality than unmarried and same-sex married persons.&quot;</blockquote>
So in fact not only do Frisch and Simenson not say what Cameron says they say, they say the exact opposite: a gay person married to someone of the sex to which they do not feel attraction is worse off than if they&#039;d married someone they love. Color me shocked.
<blockquote>Many decent people, even at fine schools like Yale and Ohio State, are simply unaware that the science has long indicated the Senator&rsquo;s son and others were not born gay.</blockquote>
Well, only to the same extent that &quot;many decent people&quot; are simply unaware that Paul Cameron and others were not born straight. Infants <em>don&#039;t have</em> a sexual orientation. This is of course entirely not the impression that Cameron was trying to create in the mind of the reader, but had he unambiguously stated what he meant for people to understand, it would&#039;ve been a downright lie.
I would still love to know what it is about homosex that Cameron and bigots like him believe is inherently so much more pleasurable than straight sex. I mean, it would have to be fucking amazing for people to choose to endure the crushing oppression that you don&#039;t have to dig far back in the history books to find Western governments heaped upon gays, or that is ongoing in many parts of the world (yes Iran, I <em>am</em> looking at you). Even outside the crushing oppression, there&#039;s the continuing widespread discrimination in this country that still sometimes spills over into actual violence, and which can be used to explain much of the life expectancy discrepancy - it creates an elevated suicide risk, it reduces access to healthcare, and those society pushes to its margins are more likely to engage in high-risk behaviors.
Hey, this crackpot&#039;s been around since the glory days of The Weekly World News --I remember an article of his-- Last Homosexual To Die By Year 2000! ;This was back in the AIDS years.
Most women who are willing to wear a strap-on every night are taken. I&#039;ll have to settle for marrying a person with the dildo permanently attached.
<i>Many decent people, even at fine schools like Yale and Ohio State, are simply unaware that the science has long indicated the Senator&rsquo;s son and others were not born gay</i> You can read more about these findings in The Journal of Wishful Thinking.
True story: I once asked to borrow a neighbor&#039;s phone in 1993, when cordless phones were becoming common. I couldn&#039;t figure out how to operate it. Neighbor said &quot;You need a Ph.D. to work this phone&quot;. I said &quot;Uh, about that.....&quot;
When some bigot decided to go to Columbus to bloviate about a kid who&#039;s attending Yale.
BAH! Fuck this fucking censor that doesn&#039;t allow me to say the word &quot;out right&quot; as one word. FUUUUUCKKKK!
ETA: Seriously. Fucking censorbot is majorly ticking me off right now. That&#039;s two substantive, well-reasoned, entirely unobscene comments that have been eaten because they just happened to contain a particular four letter sequence that&#039;s been deemed the most offensive thing ever even when embedded in the middle of other perfectly innocent words. Now I totally know how the town of Scunthorpe must&#039;ve felt when the earliest net nannys bounced it off the web because they too were stupid.
Unless, of course, the reason married women die sooner is men.
<blockquote>Morten Frisch says, &quot;It is a novel observation that being married was not always protective. Among persons living alone and persons living in same-sex cohabitation, those who were married to a member of the opposite sex had noticeably higher mortality than unmarried and same-sex married persons.&quot;</blockquote>
So in fact not only do Frisch and Simenson not say what Cameron says they say, they say the exact opposite: a gay person married to someone of the sex to which they do not feel attraction is worse off than if they&#039;d married someone they love. Color me shocked.
<blockquote>Many decent people, even at fine schools like Yale and Ohio State, are simply unaware that the science has long indicated the Senator&rsquo;s son and others were not born gay.</blockquote>
Well, only to the same extent that &quot;many decent people&quot; are simply unaware that Paul Cameron and others were not born straight. Infants <em>don&#039;t have</em> a sexual orientation. This is of course entirely not the impression that Cameron was trying to create in the mind of the reader, but had he unambiguously stated what he meant for people to understand, it would&#039;ve been a downright lie.
I would still love to know what it is about homosex that Cameron and bigots like him believe is inherently so much more pleasurable than straight sex. I mean, it would have to be fucking amazing for people to choose to endure the crushing oppression that you don&#039;t have to dig far back in the history books to find Western governments heaped upon gays, or that is ongoing in many parts of the world (yes Iran, I <em>am</em> looking at you). Even outside the crushing oppression, there&#039;s the continuing widespread discrimination in this country that still sometimes spills over into actual violence, and which can be used to explain much of the life expectancy discrepancy - it creates an elevated suicide risk, it reduces access to healthcare, and those society pushes to its margins are more likely to engage in high-risk behaviors.
Which it probably is, when you look at the homicide statistics.
Scatman John made <em>far</em> more sense.
Well, it <em>is</em> the best sex <em>he</em>&#039;s ever had, apparently.
Hey, this crackpot&#039;s been around since the glory days of The Weekly World News --I remember an article of his-- Last Homosexual To Die By Year 2000! ;This was back in the AIDS years.
Funny, I&#039;M STILL HERE!
Sounds to me like he&#039;s been hitting them little crystals awfully hard.
It really is a win-win, isn&#039;t it? Especially if you make it a rich, gay man.
Another skewed poll from the Repubicans.
Most women who are willing to wear a strap-on every night are taken. I&#039;ll have to settle for marrying a person with the dildo permanently attached.
<i>said [sic] Cameron</i>
Typo - that should read &quot;said <i>sick</i> Cameron.&quot;
King Tut?