Bisexual Mice Made in a Lab?!

[frikidiki]

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-20046716-10391704.html

I really got a kick out of this article. Y'all get to it while it's available.

[roy m cox]

hmmmm o_0

[Nadir]

I read an article about this same thing on the Spanish press a few days ago. To be frank, I was a little bit surprised, but only because the night before I had been talking to a friend (who is gay) about the role of brain chemicals on defining sexual orientation. He thought that making research on those subjects was a double-edged weapon (imagine that they make a pill to "turn someone straight" by taking it on a regular basis or something like that), and to be sincere, I don´t see the point of spending the taxes collected from the Chinese populace (who already have many problems on their own) on this kind of research. Anyway, as I have read, China is still a very homophobic society (homosexuality was removed of their list of mental illness just eleven years ago), and many of their elders consider it as a "vice" invented by capitalist society. North Korea seems to think that way, too (although that doesnt surprise at all, coming from them...).

I remember reading a post on this forum talking about how the "UN" had decided to take out "sexual orientation" on their chart of the reasons why one shouldnt be executed (allright, its still there, under the "umbrella term" of "other personal differences or reasons", but still its not making us very visible); and I was surprised to see countries like South Africa on the list of those who voted for it.

[Realist]

I had a pen-pal from Taiwan, who was very bisexual, but was terrified what would happen to his job, friends, and family, if they found out. He confirmed what you said about Chinese being vehemently homophobic. The only time he felt safe to be with another guy was on a trip to Australia, when he was 15 and then again at 20-something...those were his only two sexual encounters with males.

I read, recently, that they were slaughtering gays, lesbians and bisexuals in Uganda.

There's way too much brutality in this world, today! I guess there always has been, but we hear more about it, these days.

[Cherokee_Mountaincat]

Ah no! They CANT be Bisexual. It isnt natural. They're just confused, they are experimenting, they dont know what side of the fence to jump off of. God made Squeeky and Dash, not Squeekie and Weekiee. Its just a phaze. They're just good friends. They're just wrestling...
Sound familiar at all? lol :rolleyes:
And just think: Thats their tax dollars at work. For a bunch of people to sit around all day, drugging up poor Squeekie and Weekie and watching them mount each other. They be some sick puppy's over there.. lol
Bad Cat :cool:

[Nadir]

I love you more when you are bad, Cat ;)

But anyway, Dennis, what you have said is true. I dunno if you have heard about David Kato. He was an Ugandan LGBT activist who was murdered at his home just a couple of months ago, after his name was published on a newspaper on a list of the top homosexual/bisexual personalities on the country (or suspected to be homosexual). The paper called for their inmediate detention and execution. The name of the newspaper was "Rolling Stone", no relation to the American music magazine, who by the way has sued the other publication by plagiarism and difamation. Thanks to that, the homophobic newspaper has stopped publishing in Uganda and its editor was forced to make an apology for the death they had directly caused, although he didn´t apologise for publishing the list. It wouldn´t return David Kato to life, but at least that´s one asshole less to worry about. Thats why I like American music so much ;)

I was reading on a Nigerian forum about a gay church that had opened its doors on a neighbourhood in Lagos around two years ago, and I was shocked to see the hate, the anger, of some of the people who had written in that thread. Some of them even threatened to torch the place down, to shoot gays and lesbians and bisexuals on sight. I was very upset at reading this. Those people already live a hard life...

And well, here on Spain, actually, most LGBT folks can live quite happily without any worry, but it also depends in which area you live. It´s not the same in rural as in urban areas, obviously. I have a friend who is an activist here on Tenerife. He sometimes goes to public schools to give speeches and conferencies to the kids, to increase awareness and visibility of LGBT matters. He told me he once went to "Los Realejos" (a small village on the north of my island), and was surprised to hear such comments as:

"I would rather have my son be a thief, a murderer or even a rapist of women than a homosexual"

"If I ever know that there is a gay down on my hood, I would gather all my mates and then we would give him the beating of his life to make him a man"

And then I have to ask... if supposedly this is said by a 16 year old, who has been raised in a more liberal time, where homosexuality, while not normal, is considered more socially aceptable, then... how we can expect grown up people to react to us...?

[Cherokee_Mountaincat]

lol Dont encourage me Nad....I'm bad enuff as it is....lol
Muah.
Cat

[Realist]

I hate to say, I've heard those same exact words from some of my own family.