Posted on June 18th, 2008 by Colin
Yesterday, Time published an article about new findings on the physiology of the gay brain.
Scientists at the Karolinska Institute studied brain scans of 90 gay and straight men and women, and found that the size of the two symmetrical halves of the brains of gay men more closely resembled those of straight women than they did straight men. In heterosexual women, the two halves of the brain are more or less the same size. In heterosexual men, the right hemisphere is slightly larger. Scans of the brains of gay men in the study, however, showed that their hemispheres were relatively symmetrical, like those of straight women, while the brains of homosexual women were asymmetrical like those of straight men. The number of nerves connecting the two sides of the brains of gay men were also more like the number in heterosexual women than in straight men.
The article continues, basically explaining that homosexuals are superheroes with the best powers of both sexes, “it may turn out that the brains of gay men possess only some ‘feminized’ structures, while retaining some masculine ones.” I take this to mean that my brain has the reasoning and emotional capacity of a woman with the strength and appetite of a man. Quite an argument for the homosexual agenda!
This got me thinking about my own brain. I couldn’t help but make a diagram of my brain and notice how actually it seems to be less the brain of a gender queer super being and more the brain of a dirty adolescent boy… Picture after the jump.
This is a very scientific diagram, and has such, should be understood as the utmost representation of reality. And by that I mean The Cryptkeeper’s face actually, physically resides in my brain stem, guys.
[“What the Gay Brain Looks Like” Time]
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June 18th, 2008 at 11:23 am
Do straight ladies have UNICR0NS flying in their brains too?
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June 18th, 2008 at 11:55 am
does that toilet have a fax machine? so 2.0!
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June 18th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
I thought I was the only guy with Capt. Lou Albano on the brain.
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June 18th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
I recognize that toilet to be of the delightful Japanese persuasion and it therefore occupies a rather large portion of my frontal lobe in my asymmetrical brain.
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June 19th, 2008 at 11:48 am
http://mumpsimus.blogspot.com/2008/06/biological-determinism-essentialism-and.html
“Rightward hemispheric asymmetry was found in the brains of 14 of 25 heterosexual males and 11 of 20 homosexual females, but in only 13 of 25 heterosexual females and 10 of 20 homosexual males.”
Bad science. Bad bad science!
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Dylan "Thrillin'" Palmer reply on June 19, 2008:
And it continues, in even more detail at… http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=256
June 20th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
As ed.’s mom might say, “Low n size, low power, not statistically significant = “bad science.”"
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July 9th, 2008 at 8:52 am
You might be interested in an on line test at the BBC web site called Sex I.D. that purports to grade you on a continuum of male/female brain qualities. It takes about 35 minutes. Amazingly, I scored right in the middle! You can find it at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/index_surveys.shtml
I am also interested in the subject though from the POV of a meditator and seeker in spiritual traditions where inner union of male and female is a path towards the divine.
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