Comments on: He’s Gay, Jim

By: Becker

Becker — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Let me be the first to commend George Takei for his integrity and bravery in admitting he is appearing in Equus. That just takes balls.

By: Meribeth

Meribeth — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Move over on the barf bucket, Twisty. I need it too. People are so foolish when they do this. Not pausing to think that they are messing with the natural order of Life. Insane! India is having very serious problems with this since they have been practicing sex selection for a while. They are running out of girls in the population….and that will open a whole new can of worms.
(no pun intended)

By: MsKate

MsKate — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Let them select precious boys over booby prize girls, even if it isn’t for the highly valid genetic reasons that my high school friend wanted to select only girls.

Why? Too few women means competition for said women. It means women have more choices and higher status. It means THINGS CHANGE!

Who the fuck is going to want one of these precious spoiled hand-picked male spawn as overgrown child adult husbands if they have options?

India and China have too many people for their resources - and so does the US for that matter. Perhaps a subtle shift in demographics would do the world a bit of good.

By: Kara

Kara — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Actually, one bioethics committee or another felt that IVF sex selection should only be offered to parents who only have one or more kids of one sex. Which makes sense. Want a fun fact? There’s a study in Nature this month claiming that, in Sao Paolo at least, pollution is skewing the gender ratio towards girls. Those wussy Y-chromosomes and male fetuses just don’t hold up as well as girls, I guess.

By: Kyra

Kyra — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

“couples in the throes of IVF”

Usually, throes happen during the *other* type of fertilization.

By: David

David — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

There is no misogyny in my blog.

By: Buffalo Gal

Buffalo Gal — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

At least so far, the shortage of women hasn’t enhanced their status in India or China, according to things I’ve read. (I know one has to allow for non-white-american-european bias in articles about this stuff, but just sayin’) I think the status of women has to change before we are regarded as some sort of commodity, in short or plentiful supply.

By: mythago

mythago — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Is allowing IVF sex selection any worse than letting couples keep “trying for the boy” and having girl children they don’t want and consider inferior to a son?

By: Neil the Ethical Werewolf

Neil the Ethical Werewolf — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

I can imagine a situation where I and my future wife, after having a son or two, would use IVF to choose a girl. Some people might just want a fuller spectrum of parenting experiences, and that doesn’t seem wrong to me.

By: Lil

Lil — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Hmm, I do think Neil has a point, but I wonder if there is really such a thing as an ethical werewolf.

On the parent issue, my concern is that most adults are way to screwed up to be trusted with innocent, vulnerable children, no matter which gender they get. On the matter of IVF, where adults, screwed up or not, are trying to force nature into spewing forth more human beings — I just wonder why people can’t adopt. There are so many children in need of homes. It seems so selfish to me.

Okay, give me an earful. But I thought I’d put the point out there.