(no subject)

[highlyeccentric]

This is whacked.

aside from the generally unpleasant wording, as if it's tracing the occurance of some kind of disease, i find the idea that a mother's body treats a male child as invasive a bit weird... and this theory only traces 'causes' of male homosexuality- do they think lesbianism isn't really homosexuality or something? what kind of study on homosexuality only looks at males?

Comments

[phrasemuffin.livejournal.com]

I'm less worried about the fact that they didn't look at the female side of the story, more about the fact that they didn't actually research the "mechanism at play". The whole thing is just a theory - no actual research was done AT ALL!!

Please understand I don't not care about the females, I just don't care for pseudoscience.

Although, I do have an older brother, but only one, so maybe that explains why I sit on the fence XP

[sea-of-tethys.livejournal.com]

I swear this is ripped off from a New Scientist article from about three years ago - there may have been reference to original research there, I don't remember. I know the New Scientist article did quote some study which showed that homosexuality correlated with the number of older brothers, even if the brothers weren't raised together.