Recent content by Jeffrey Scronce

Once upon a time I personally wanted to be straight. It had nothing to do with my actual sexual desires but fear of the repercussions. I grew up in a homophobic southern town and I internalized a lot of the bullshit I was being told as a kid. I hoped it would be something I'd outgrow somehow...

Evolution happens on a population and generational level. Just because a trait isn't productive for every given individual's reproductive success it can be successful for a population as a whole. A lot of theories on the evolution of altruism address this (for instance, Dawkin's discusses this...

I'mma stop right here. "Optimal" is circumstantial; human genetic and phenotropic diversity exits to deal with specific environments. "Optimal" is a fallacy because there is no Platonic Ideal human being. If mitochondial Eve was so damn great we wouldn't need variation in the first place. Beyond...

Neil Gaiman wrote about a sci-fi world where people could change their physical sex temporarily with a pill. It fostered a society where people would just flop back and forth to suit their needs. I know physical sex, sexuality and gender aren't the same thing but I figure the story confronts...

1. What is "better"? Not only are you talking in value judgements, you're talking about conditional value judgements. 2. If you want to be disgustingly reductionist about it, all ethnicities are equally valuable because diversity is essential to survival. Diversity is a cauldron for new...

Out of curiosity, why do you feel uncomfortable? Do you feel equally uncomfortable around all homosexuals? Do you feel the same about lesbians as you do about gay men? About transgendered? Is it a specific personality type? I understand if you don't want to have this conversation.

I may be misunderstanding your question but I'm going to guess you're really asking why we get so gosh-darned whiny when mainstream media portrays us in a negative light. The reason is that media portrayals actually affect how we are treated in the real world. If a person's only source of...