Homophobia Explained 1/8

Sorry for the bad video quality.... so I also show the text here; the bibliography will also be given at the end...

Abstract. The article presents a mind-bending game-theoretic dilemma which arises from a sociobiological finding on male homosexuality. It follows the pattern of a paradox first evoked by Fisher's hypothesis that smoking does not cause lung cancer but that a common cause leads to both the phenomena. My dilemma is, however, not vulnerable to an important type of objection against Fisher's problem. The dilemma may occur in the actual world and may give further support to the validitiy of the hypothesis that male homosexuality is linked to an increase in maternal female fecundity because several of its possible solutions may, on the basis of this hypothesis, straightforwardly explain the selection of homophobic traits.

Keywords. Homosexuality, Evolutionary Game Theory, Social Organization, Adaptation, Fisher's Problem, Causation

Camperio Ciani et al.'s (2004) solution to the Darwinian paradox of the survival of male homosexuality poses a threat of yet another paradoxical constellation, this time in game theory.

Camperio Ciani et al. (2004) showed that homosexuality may bear reproductive advantages beyond some of the merely somatic survival benefits described by Kirkpatrick (2000) because the same genetic factors that give rise to the trait in males might boost the fecundity in their maternal female relatives. Indeed, maternal female relatives of homosexual males turned out to be significantly more fecund and to be mothering homosexuals more frequently than those of heterosexual males. It is unclear, however, what exact causal relation obtains when a human male acts upon his sexual identity tendencies. In Fisher's words, "the fact is that if two factors, A and B, are associated [...,] it may be that A is an important cause of B, it may be that B is an important cause of A, it may be that something else, let us say X, is an important cause of both" (1958, p. 155).

Therefore, this correlation leads to a type of game-theoretic dilemma first evoked by Fisher's (1958) hypothesis that smoking does not cause lung cancer but that smoking and lung cancer are caused by one and the same third entity, e.g., the person's genotype, provided that it is unchanging as of fertilization.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• homophobia
• homosexuality
• gay
• straight
• evolution
• Dawkins
• nest
• helper
• kin
• selection
• balanced
• polymorphism
• hate
• fag

[Shavarnarak]

I don't think homophobia is evolutionary, because not all ancient cultures where homophobic.

I think it's a mixture of abrahamic religion (a vile taint on humanity to begin with.) and the current (backwards) idea of 'manliness'.

The latter leads weak insecure males to become homophobic,they know they aren't manly, they probably hold the door open for women and shit like that, thinking that'll get them laid, and being deficient as men by the standards, they fear being seen as gay, and fear gays

[Jackies1979]

@Shavarnarak 1. "not all ancient cultures were homophobic" is not a reason for claiming that homophobia does not have an evolutionary component, compare: not all animals have long necks, so long necks are not evolutionary

2. from an anthropic perspective I agree with everything you say in the last two paragraphs as a great admirer of valerie solanas, but still, from an evolutionary or history of religion point of view: the homophobia present in abrahamic rel. came from men, how did their...

[Jackies1979]

@Shavarnarak ..... how did their fears and emotions and weaknesses develop in evolution, the homophobic feelings are costly and superfluous at first sight, so how come they could have survived?

[Jackies1979]

@adampvarner don't you like to play with your girlfriend's feces hole? does she never ask you to pleasure it? the rectum is, in a healthy person, usually quite clean, feces are stored in the sigma colon which is one floor up in the large intestine, only shortly before defecation the stool is passed to the rectum. even if you have a nervous digestion or only ate lentil soup, you can ask your girl or boy to go to the toilet and take out little bits of feces or have a douche...

[Jackies1979]

@adampvarner do you have bad experiences with homosexual relationships? love and sex are also related in gay relationships, and many gay men "fall in love" with the genitals of another... there are some gay men, even some "old school" or prudish gay activists, who do not wish to focus too much on the sexual activities of gays, but this attempt at gay rights seems flawed to me as well. gays want and should be accepted also in their sexual drives and activities

[Jackies1979]

yeah, maybe he should...

[padraigomairtin]

Well come out of that closet and see the light!