Some interesting tidbit about homosexuality

[MisterVeritis]

I am researching, heavily for two books I am writing. The general area is anxiety and fear. In the seventh book I am reading I found some interesting information about the amygdala. It is part of our brain and there are two of them, a left one and a right one.

They work together to process emotions.

Here is what I found to be interesting:
Right amygdala: processes fear, sadness and anxiety. Also processes declarative and episodic memories.

Left amygdala: processes fear, sadness and anxiety, plus happiness and joy. Develops about two years earlier than the right amygdala.

Both have many androgen receptors that respond to testosterone.

Sex differences:

Females develop their amygdala much earlier than males.
Males have much larger amygdala than females.

The left amygdala in gay men very closely resembles the left amygdala in herosexual women.

Lesbians have amygdala that closely resemble the amygdala in heterosexual men.

None of this has anything to do with the books I am writing. Still, I found it very interesting.

Some of you know I had a moving experience with a female friend whose daughter decided she could no longer live as a female. She planned to kill herself.

My friend spent more than an hour in anguish with me. What should she do? This mother would rather have a live son than a dead daughter. Her daughter said she thinks of herself as a male with male thoughts and emotions.

So the mother supported her daughter (and now, years later, son). I did not understand it then. Maybe I understand it a bit more now.

[Common]

It stands to reason that there has to be physiological differences between gays and straights. If not it would be a choice to be gay

[MisterVeritis]

It stands to reason that there has to be physiological differences between gays and straights. If not it would be a choice to be gay

What I thought was most interesting is how the amygdala in a gay man closely resembles the amygdala in a straight female. Ditto the lesbian-straight man.

What I understand now is how disorienting and confusing it must be. Imagine being a male going through puberty but having the same feelings toward men that the girls do. Ditto the lesbian side of the equation.

They have my sympathy.

[MisterVeritis]

I had to laugh. In 2015 a small study was done concerning our brains and politics.

Liberals, it was claimed, have more gray matter in the anterior cingulate cortex. Therefore, the story goes, smarter people are liberals.

But they also claimed that people with larger amygdala tend to be politically conservative. Their takeaway is that conservatives are fearful, anxious, and sad. A better way to look at it is liberals have stunted, feminine amygdala, improperly-sized and malfunctioning.

[Lummy]

Hence, their propensity to be $#@!s.

[Lummy]

This is where the rubber meets the road, and where you slam on the breaks hard to avoid catastrophe.

If it was me, I'd slap the little wench senseless, then order her to get such stupid thoughts out of her mind, and that she's running with the wrong crowd to get such ideas and that there is no way in hell she could possibly know what are "male thoughts and emotions" and what are not, and to quit trollin' me.

I'd tell her that's the dumbest crock of $#@! I ever heard. If she means she's lesbian, that's one thing -- all women are lesbian to some extent, but if she feels like a guy, get out of the house.


The ball is now in her court. She'll think it over, then apologize for being so impossible but that's what they taught her at school, and maybe she should home school. Everything will eventually return to normal.

[MisterVeritis]

This is where the rubber meets the road, and where you slam on the breaks hard to avoid catastrophe.

If it was me, I'd slap the little wench senseless, then order her to get such stupid thoughts out of her mind, and that she's running with the wrong crowd to get such ideas and that there is no way in hell she could possibly know what are "male thoughts and emotions" and what are not, and to quit trollin' me.

I'd tell her that's the dumbest crock of $#@! I ever heard. If she means she's lesbian, that's one thing -- all women are lesbian to some extent, but if she feels like a guy, get out of the house.


The ball is now in her court. She'll think it over, then apologize for being so impossible but that's what they taught her at school, and maybe she should home school. Everything will eventually return to normal.

Fortunately, you were not present to give such goofy advice.

[Lummy]

This is indoctrination gone wild. Let me ask you, what do you think is in store for her grandchildren if she doesn't sit up and fly right?

[Lummy]

There are a lot of things one does not share with others, and that's one of them, the little baby.

It's called growing up.

[Lummy]

Poor little thing now belongs to the state, you know. Take her back.