Gayness, Overpopulation & DNA viewed in a fun way
Exploring abstract connections between these 3 areas...
The project of nature is self perpetuation, as seen in the literally most simplified way through cellular replication. In mitosis, the replication of DNA, the double helix is untwisted and flattened out before it is split in half and builds off of itself again.
In meiosis, the division of DNA into separate alleles plays out in a game of chance where the cells divide then rejoin at random during reproduction.
Today I am here to acknowledge the phenomenon in the superprevalence of gayness in contemporary society and its coincidence with human overpopulation. Gayness is like a recessive trait. In my saying that I by no means intend to correlate the two physiologically or biologically or medically or whatever; from a purely metaphorical view do I propose the structural organization of DNA replication for the sake of comparison with gayness. I mean to describe it as such because it is like a previously repressed gene within the human genotype that has now began to show more in the human phenotype. Gayness has always been part of us, perhaps kept in the dark. But nowadays there is mass gayness, clearly visible all around.
Even if one is not gay, they can hold within their conscious a believable instinct that they could be gay, simply due to the fact that there is so much gayness everywhere. Considering that sexuality ‘is a spectrum’, and that the sheer statistical probability of someone swaying any other way on that spectrum than the way they previously held to be true, is quite high, I intuit this to be a common area of thought for the modern person. I do not personally believe myself to be gay, but I would not deny the possibility of my carrying it as a ‘recessive trait’ potentially. I may not be TT straight, but Tt straight. I’d kiss girls but probably wouldn’t go there. Even in that, given the supremely extroverted gayness complex of collective Gen Z, I begin to project upon myself the possibility that I might be denying my own innate lesbianism due to my presupposed straightness. This is how twisted things are today. The rungs of our DNA have gone round again and again.
Human development has gone on just long enough for us to start seeing this recessiveness manifest in the general phenotype. If TT is the purest metaphorical genotype of heterosexuality, tt can be seen as that for overt homosexuality. Over time and further off in the branches of human genetics, more tt people are bound to pop up.
In the identical respect that humanity has perpetuated itself to become all of 8 billion born of a singular population of primates in Africa, our DNA sequences of sexuality have evolved accordingly. As if there is a divine governance at work, overpopulation happens to be bad, and homosexual couples cannot reproduce together. Huh! How interesting! I ponder. Now yeah yeah, the immediate retort is that gays CAN have kids via surrogate or a sperm donor. But gay couples are more likely to adopt or not have kids at all than are straight couples. There are multiple studies showing this that are cited below. Evidence aside this is a given because of the biological restraints. Obviously.
I mentioned meiosis earlier, which I refer to metaphorically as the randomized process of choice between potential combinations of alleles. In light of this comparison with sexuality, I see it as somewhat equatable to the variety of sexual orientations that make up the spectrum. Over millenia we have expanded and multiplied and mixed and mingled so far and wide that, in that same conceptual regard, we see today a barrage of nuanced, eccentric, i’ll go as far as to say rare kinds of sexual orientations and modes of identification. I’m talking ‘ze/zim' and ‘it’ pronouns or stuff within the “+” beyond LGBTQ.
I’ll conclude by saying that the variation of sexuality is representative of a healthy genotype that is and was inevitable. The eccentricity we see in all spheres today is comparable to this actually. Overall, developments of DNA in our human population just so happens to be quite an overarching metaphor for many things, even those completely unrelated on a cellular level.
Taylor, Danielle. “Same-Sex Couples Are More Likely to Adopt or Foster Children.” Census.gov, 8 Oct. 2021, https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2020/09/fifteen-percent-of-same-sex-couples-have-children-in-their-household.html.
Goldberg, Shoshana K, and Kerith J Conron. “How Many Same-Sex Couples in the US Are Raising Children?” Williams Institute, UCLA, 29 July 2020, https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/same-sex-parents-us/.
Gates, Gary J. “Marriage and Family: LGBT Individuals and Same-Sex Couples.” The Future of Children: Marriage and Child Wellbeing Revisited, vol. 25, no. 2, 2015, pp. 67–82., https://futureofchildren.princeton.edu/sites/g/files/toruqf2411/files/media/marriage_and_child_wellbeing_revisited_25_2_full_journal.pdf
Great work. Love seeing this evolutionary approach to society and sexuality. Diversity is exactly what brought us to our modern species! Will be interesting to see how this evolves as we have moved from natural selection to advanced social selection.
"Diversity of approach beats monolithic view." - Jordan Peterson