Comments on: Athletes are more likely to be gay

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 18:49:08 +0000

EM: You are being too essentialist. It is not like there are three categories and your hormone level in utero puts you in one of them.

By: Em

Em — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:20:29 +0000

range from a little athletic, to more athletic, to super athletic, and finally, gay.Doesn't make sense. If further along the scale than super-athletic, why didn't these men make the cut for college football?

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 07:05:10 +0000

Mike:Can I ask you to be more specific about what/whom you are referring to? I can’t parse it from your post. Just me being stupid I’m sure…

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:21:58 +0000

Why did you feel the need to take a political potshot in what was an otherwise interesting article about a medical phenomenon?It only lowers your credibility.

By: greg laden

greg laden — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 12:24:36 +0000

spayced:This is why I brought up the digit length data, which, with its simplest interpretation, shoes that male testosterone levels in utero result in phenotypes that range from a little athletic, to more athletic, to super athletic, and finally, gay.It makes sense.

By: spayced

spayced — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:41:37 +0000

All 47 men just ‘happened’ to be cheerleaders? No, the study chose male cheerleaders from the beginning.The study doesn’t prove athletes are more likely to be gay.It proves male cheerleaders are likely to be gay and male cheerleaders are like to have been athletes.There’s a big difference. It’s like they intentionally hid the fact they were using all male cheerleaders to try to present a difference conclusion.

By: Nathaniel

Nathaniel — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:04:13 +0000

Somehow I think sampling male cheerleaders to find out of athletes are more likely to be homosexual is… well… a little odd.Personally, I have noticed that, going to art school, that many male artists are gay. Or rather, that a higher percentage of the male artistic community are homosexual when compared to the population as a whole.this beings up an interesting question. Is it an expression of feminine traits that makes a man gay? or is it an exaggeration of male traits that makes a man gay? or could both be true? or neither?The fun part is that sexuality is not as genetically simple as gender. Gender has one switch, a little gene on the Y chromosome. No one has yet to find the sexuality gene… and good luck finding it.