Manny Calavera
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Seconded. Screw this, I'm going to go look at overpriced shoes at Lord & Taylor.
JB
I was looking for tips on how to hone my gaydar. I'm terrible.
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Seconded. Screw this, I'm going to go look at overpriced shoes at Lord & Taylor.
I'm not a genetisist, but I don't think it works like that. I think that a gene doesn't just control one thing, it controls several. so there may be a gene that, along with several other things, makes every tenth man that has that gene by gay. if that were the case, and the assumption was that gay men make good uncles, then that gene would self perpetuate well, if the advantage of having a gay uncle raised ones ability to preproduce.
The first part of your statement is true but not the conclusion. Genes cannot self-perpetuate; they need to be passed on to your offspring for the traits they activate to remain in the population. In other words, if every tenth gay uncle never has any kids, irrespective of the adaptive value of having gay uncles, they have no one to pass their genes to and will become extinct.
I was looking for tips on how to hone my gaydar. I'm terrible.
...but there isn't.
Thin, neat and single.
The first part of your statement is true but not the conclusion. Genes cannot self-perpetuate; they need to be passed on to your offspring for the traits they activate to remain in the population. In other words, if every tenth gay uncle never has any kids, irrespective of the adaptive value of having gay uncles, they have no one to pass their genes to and will become extinct.
I would add Youtube performances of Proud Mary to that list.
Oh come on, not even a raging 'mo would put something like that on YouTube.
The first part of your statement is true but not the conclusion. Genes cannot self-perpetuate; they need to be passed on to your offspring for the traits they activate to remain in the population. In other words, if every tenth gay uncle never has any kids, irrespective of the adaptive value of having gay uncles, they have no one to pass their genes to and will become extinct.
...but there isn't.
Assuming for the sake of discussion that there were such a thing as a "gay gene", I'm not sure your conclusion would follow. With the reduction of societal prejudices against gay people, and with the increase in medical sophistication, gay couples are now much more able to start families with babies who carry their genes -- through the use of surrogates, in vitro fertilization, whatever.
But there's a more fundmental problem that runs through this discussion. Concepts like "fitness" and genetic "advantages" can sometimes be deduced retrospectively, although even that is a complicated endeavor. Given the variety of factors (only some of them understood) at play and the time scales involved in evolution and Darwinian "selection", trying to make such judgments or predictions prospectively is, for a variety of reasons, generally a fool's errand.
That's true.
Agreed. Since I think we wear different shoe sizes, there's no incentive for me to try to sucker you into that bet. Of course, by the time we knew the outcome neither of our descendants might even have feet.