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Edited on Mon Jun-16-08 01:38 PM by marmar
These are responses in a Free Republic thread about this story: Gay men, straight women share brain detail: report 40 minutes ago LONDON (Reuters) - Gay men and straight women share some characteristics in the area of the brain responsible for emotion, mood and anxiety, researchers said on Monday in a study highlighting the potential biological underpinning of sexuality. Brain scans also showed the same symmetry among lesbians and straight men, the researchers wrote in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "The observations cannot be easily attributed to perception or behavior," the researchers from Sweden's Karolinska Institute wrote. "Whether they may relate to processes laid down during the fetal or postnatal development is an open question." A number of studies have looked at the roles genetic, biological and environmental factors play in sexual orientation but little evidence exists that any plays an all-important role. Many scientists believe both nature and nurture play a part. Brain scans of 90 volunteers showed that the brains of heterosexual men and homosexual women were slightly asymmetric with the right hemisphere slightly larger than the left, Ivanka Savic and Pers Lindstrom wrote. The brains of gay men and heterosexual women were not. .....(more at http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080616/lf_nm_life/brain_gay_dc ) Now the responses from the highly evolved Free Republic Posters: What a surprise (Not!)
1 posted on Monday, June 16, 2008 1:42:45 PM by Bobkk47 < Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies>
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To: Bobkk47 They also share a passion for make-up, shoes and men.
2 posted on Monday, June 16, 2008 1:43:54 PM by SolidWood (Refusal to vote for McCain is active support of Obama. Period.) < Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies>
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To: Bobkk47 Gay men and straight women share brain detail
3 posted on Monday, June 16, 2008 1:44:15 PM by library user < Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies>
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To: Bobkk47 HOw Thpecial!!
5 posted on Monday, June 16, 2008 1:46:20 PM by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (Some days it is not worth chewing through the restraints.) < Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies>
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To: Bobkk47 what about bis, metros, trannys, etc?
6 posted on Monday, June 16, 2008 1:46:34 PM by absolootezer0 ( Detroit: we're so bad, even our mayor is a criminal) < Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies>
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To: Bobkk47 Arnold was correct,these are Girlie Men!
7 posted on Monday, June 16, 2008 1:46:38 PM by gunnedah < Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies>
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To: Bobkk47 "Brain scans also showed the same symmetry among lesbians and straight men,..." Does that mean that if I convert a lesbian to hetro, then I'd get a woman who isn't crazy?
8 posted on Monday, June 16, 2008 1:46:52 PM by avacado < Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies>
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To: library user LOL...
I’ve always found Megan Mullally to be hot for some reason...
9 posted on Monday, June 16, 2008 1:47:29 PM by RockinRight (I just paid $63 for gas. An icefield in Alaska is NOT the Grand Canyon. F--- the caribou.) < Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies>
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To: RockinRight She ain’t bad.
10 posted on Monday, June 16, 2008 1:49:17 PM by library user < Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies>
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To: SolidWood That explains “Sex and the City.”
11 posted on Monday, June 16, 2008 1:50:18 PM by dfwgator ( This tag blank until football season.) < Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies>
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To: Bobkk47
12 posted on Monday, June 16, 2008 1:50:18 PM by johnny7 (Don't mess with my tag-lines!) < Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies>
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To: Bobkk47 Is that the cause -- or the effect -- or homosexual behavior?
13 posted on Monday, June 16, 2008 1:50:39 PM by Zakeet (Be thankful we don't get all the government we pay for) < Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies>
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To: RockinRight And you’re only 31 too. She’s almost old enough to be our mom.
14 posted on Monday, June 16, 2008 1:51:17 PM by library user < Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies>
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To: SolidWood And interior decorating with absolutely fabou-loso colors!
15 posted on Monday, June 16, 2008 1:52:02 PM by RexBeach < Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies>
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To: Bobkk47 I thought it was the “Shopping” gene they shared.
16 posted on Monday, June 16, 2008 1:53:49 PM by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.) < Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies>
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To: Bobkk47 Who didn’t see that one coming, GIRLFRIEND!
17 posted on Monday, June 16, 2008 1:54:14 PM by ConservativeMind < Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies>
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To: Bobkk47 It makes sense - if you don’t believe in God.
18 posted on Monday, June 16, 2008 1:55:24 PM by donna (I am confident that we can create a Kingdom right here on Earth. - Barack Hussein Obama) < Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies>
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To: Bobkk47 There are a whole lot of guys who will dip their wick in just about anything (think prisons). I don’t think they have the same kind of brain pattern as women.
19 posted on Monday, June 16, 2008 1:58:14 PM by Tribune7 (How is inflicting pain and death on an innocent, helpless human being for profit, moral?) < Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies>
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To: Bobkk47
Yeah, I can believe that.......
20 posted on Monday, June 16, 2008 1:59:41 PM by Red Badger (NOBODY MOVE!!!!.......I dropped me brain............................) < Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies>
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To: Bobkk47 And the frantic search continues for the "they were born that way" excuse for what is clearly a derangement. So, why is there no parallel attempt to find a physiological reason for all the other sexual disorders? They must have been born that way also?
21 posted on Monday, June 16, 2008 2:00:18 PM by doorgunner69 < Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies>
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To: Bobkk47 Aha! So straight women should have gay men friends to discuss their emotions with and not bother trying to make their husbands “understand” them. Makes perfect sense. Seriously.
22 posted on Monday, June 16, 2008 2:02:04 PM by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice) < Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies>
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To: doorgunner69 This was the impetus for Sex and the City. All they did was make the central cast women to market it.
23 posted on Monday, June 16, 2008 2:02:34 PM by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey) < Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies>
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To: Bobkk47 That explains faghags, don’t it?!
24 posted on Monday, June 16, 2008 2:03:50 PM by Revolting cat! (Are you ready to pray for Teddy?) < Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies>
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To: Bobkk47 Another attempt to “medicalize” deviance so that they can receive legitimacy by forcing their life style upon us by claiming discrimination for a biological condition by exploiting disability laws.More enlightenment at: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031862/posts
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