Making Gay Rats
 

So...I never thought I'd be posting one of these, however when taking a peek at the new creatures announcement, when I saw...


*Slaps a scientist* You don't pick them up by their tails. If they were as viscious as some people say, they'd eat your face ~_~

o.0' Ahem. My rats did this anyway, I mean sure not all of them were willing recipients, but I was raising around 200 rats at a time. It was like having HBO. :lol:

*Ava sneaks off to give The Rat King hormone shots* Good luck Master Splinter!

I'm not exactly how to respond to this, Ava.

Well now... isn't that interesting? I don't know what to think about this. I mean, what if it gets to the point where parents are told "Hey, before you have the kid and you know what sex it is do you want to make sure that your kid doesn't turn out gay?" My best friend is gay and I've read things about how scientists were announcing that it was possible with biotechnology to make sure that childern didn't turn out gay. Kinda like designer babies. Stuff like that pisses me off. I'm not saying that this bit of news pisses me off but it kinda gives off the vibe of "Haha! The 'cure' for homosexuality is closer than everyone thought!" But that is interesting none the less. It made me think of the horomone therapy that people go through when wanting to have a sex change.

this is seriously f#cked up right here.

Have you seen Gattaca? That is what happens exactly in the movie. I don't think they mention homosexuality in particular, but they are able to engineer babies so that they have perfect eyesight and are imune to diseases.

But yeah. Homosexuality doesn't need a cure, bigotry does.

Their trying to CURE homosexuality? That's disgusting, I bet some idiot religious nut is behind this.

Let's not look for a cure to AIDS or anything let's spend our money and time on this.

And you guys ask me why I hate people?

I couldn't agree more.

yes...Where are the cures for cancer? There are so many things in this world that we should be worrying about, this is not one of them.
This just peeves me off, what B.S....

I agree with all of you 100% I mean perhaps I'm a bit biased but oh well...I just don't think this is cool...x-men last stand anyone?:ohwell:

I agree that there are more important things to "cure", but maybe this isn't such an awful thing. If some scientists want to study something, why restrict them, maybe we'll learn something from this.

But on the other side, I can see some parents that would want some type of "gay cure" for their children before they are born, which is pretty pathetic.

I'm serious about this all this is kind of scary this could very well end up being how things went in the last x-men movie.:o
Because I'm not sure if allot of you know this it's not easy being a gay person and quite allot of us don't like being this way.:ohwell:
But honestly I've been this way so long and persecuted why should I try and change who I am now.
The parallels between all of this are rather spooky.:|

[QUOTE=Janus Prospero;525025] Have you seen Gattaca? That is what happens exactly in the movie. I don't think they mention homosexuality in particular, but they are able to engineer babies so that they have perfect eyesight and are imune to diseases.
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omgawd, I just happened to see that on tv not too long ago! It was a really interesting movie.

Poor Rats. Yeah lets pick them up by their tailsand cause them possible spinal damage. kinda funny...the dude's name is BREEDLOVE...and he's dealing with sex. :lol:

No I haven't seen that movie. Never ever heard of it. But the way the designer babies in that movie are nothing like the ones that people are trying to make today. People now what to make sure that their babies have a certain color hair and eyes. It's terriblely upsetting. I really hate how people are against gays. I mean, come on! Gays are some of the most funny and awesome people on this planet. Hell just the other day my boyfriend and I hung out with a group of friends and we were the only straight people other than our buddy Pip. And I'll tell you what... we had a gay ol' time!:D

Do you live in town of Southpark by any chance.:lol:

No, not Southpark... Bedrock actually.:D

*snickersnort* That made me giggle too. But really what other profession could he have chosen with a name like that? :embarass:

Sorry I pissed everyone off :ohwell: That wasn't my intention...although I don't really know what my intention was. I'd been roleplaying for two days straight, and the rat angle kinda amused me. It reminded me of when Master Splinter was trying to calm Ava after a confrontation with the Rat King. She snapped at him, and said "Easy for you to say. You're lucky he's straight!"
...guess you had to be there. *crawls away*

Yup, I'd love to see the look on peoples faces when he explains what he does for a living. Must be one heck of a come on.

Yea... I laughed about that too.

There's no need for you to be crawling away. It was my fault that everyone got all up in arms. I didn't mean to either, it just made me think of how science is trying to "cure" gays when it was mentioned that being gay could possibly be a horomone thing. Sorry.:(

*snuzzles*

Hmmm... I don't quite see the religious right behind this, as it involves science. But then again, they don't think that artificially keeping someone alive hooked up to a machine isn't interfering with God... I dunno.

But I agree... there are more REAL diseases to cure, like AIDS, Cancer... hell, even the common cold. I also get upset that half our health scientists can come up with is stuff we already know. WOW! Eating a diet rich in sugars and Fat isn't healthy? WOW! I had absolutely no idea! My doctor [I]never[I] told me that!

I really don't know how to feel about this. one the one hand, they are proving that "gay" is a naturally occuring trait in genetics and evolution, but a bunch of bigoted weirdos (who are mostly closet cases themselves) will no doubt drool over the prospect of recondisioning their unborn child to be "normal."

BTW, if homosexuality does get cured, how the heck are politicians ever going to scare people into voting for them? Are they actually going to resort to talking about the issues? Nah... i'm sure, they'll find another "abnormal" group to pick on.

I think I heard of them... yeah! Aren't they Korean bootleggs of the Wuzzles?

:lol:

One must not forget, "the terrorists are trying to kill your families."


Special interest groups, such as "religous groups," often fund studies like this. That doesn't mean the outcome is influenced by them, though.

On the one hand, you're right... there's lots of redundancy. On the other hand, there are lots of studies that seem to prove things we already know, but really elucidate some aspect of the science that needed more evidence. Physiology is complicated, and doing studies on humans is especially complicated because they have free will to go off the protocol, and it's costly to follow people for their whole lives to look at long term health effects. Thats why the jury's still out on whether the Atkins diet is harmful or not, for example. :p

That made me laugh. Hehe.:D

Surely the scientific community has more important things to do??


And when it comes down to that particular issue...one should be happy with themselves but not throw it on others in a negative way. That kind of respect goes both ways.

I find that it's hard for my gay friend's to have respect for a number of people because they get sh*t all the time. They're not the type of gays that are all like "Look at me I'm gay!" However I do know a lot of gays like that. Take Terre Haute, IN as an example. Most of the gays here are dirty and all they want to do is let the world know that they're gay and do drag. Oh, and you could pick any random gay guy here in the Haute and he's probably had sex with like 30 people, it's horrible. Now Charleston gays are awesome. That's where most of my friends live.

An if you put them in the freezer, they're extra tasty. Wait... those are Charleston Chews.