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This article came over the Twitter this evening: http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=is-your-child-a-prehomosexual-forec-2010-09-15 > Is your child a "prehomosexual"? Forecasting adult sexual orientationThere > are signs, some would say omens, glimmering in certain children’s > demeanors that, probably ever since there were children, have caused > parents’ brows to crinkle with worry, precipitated forced conversations with > nosy mothers-in-law, strained marriages and ushered untold numbers into the > deep covenant of sexual denial. We all know the > stereotypes<http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=buried-prejudice-the-bigot-in-your-brain>: > an unusually light, delicate, effeminate air in a little boy’s step, often > coupled with solitary bookishness, or a limp wrist, an interest in dolls, > makeup, princesses, dresses and a staunch distaste for rough play with other > boys; in little girls, there is the outwardly boyish stance, perhaps a > penchant for tools, a lumbering gait, a square-jawed readiness for physical > tussles with boys, an aversion to all the perfumed, delicate, laced > trappings of femininity. > And it goes on from there... -- OHomos @ OList.com -- List Address: [email protected] (or [email protected]) Public Web Site: http://www.olist.com/ohomos Private Group: http://groups.google.com/group/ohomos/ Web Archives: http://groups.google.com/group/ohomos/topics Edit Membership: http://groups.google.com/group/ohomos/subscribe -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
