>> > Maybe I'll give birth to a lezbean if I keep sniffing stripping solvent?
>>
>>No, but you'll probably keep believing in the dilletante notion that
>>truth can be found in a university statistics class or an academic text.
Gosh a golly. What a strange assumption to make Brian.
>But you appear to believe that an article published in Personality and
>Individual Differences, a peer-reviewed academic journal, can help "create
>the truth that queerness is natural and with that truth create justice for
>queers," which it doesn't. :-0
Indeed. I think it's kind of scary that anyone is trying to find a link between drug taking and sexual orientation. Massive social engineering potential there! Imagine if they could locate the "cause". Then the conservatives would be on a rampage to social engineer birth the ensure that none are born!
>In any case, the Ellis and Hellberg article in question, as well as most
>articles in most scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences,
>can be read by anyone who can read English, including you. You need not
>have taken any university statistics class (which I haven't, as it wasn't
>required for an English major at Tokyo Gaigo Daigaku) to notice the
>"exceedingly small" sample sizes in the Ellis and Hellberg article.
Yah. And if the language is off putting, it can be learned. When people talk about Buddhism, I don't know what they're talking about either. Like today, he's teaching me about electrical wiring and how telephones work and why I can't have the kind of light switch/electrical outlets I want in the garage. When my partner talks about the things he's skilled at, I'm in the dark. BUT! I don't have to be. I listen and learn and go to the library to learn more if I want. Same thing for him when it comes to sociology and postmodernism and economics. One of the reasons why I fell in love with him was because he wasn't afraid to go out and figure out what it was he didn't know. We have been building bookshelves and stuff, unpacking all his books and many of mine still in storage. Book after book this man has, many of them sociology and economics books I'd mentioned in passing. He'd want to know what I was talking about and he'd order them and read.
I'ts wonderful being curious and it's a shame our school system sucks the life out of so many students that they're afraid to be curious and open to learning more.
k
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