An analogy from nature - 'intersex' abnormality

Male fish bear eggs in Potomac

Sewage or factory effluent may be cause of 'intersex' abnormality

SHARPSBURG, Maryland (AP) -- Male fish that are growing eggs have been found in the Potomac River near Sharpsburg, a sign that a little-understood type of pollution is spreading downstream from West Virginia, a federal scientist says.

The so-called intersex abnormality may be caused by pollutants from sewage plants, feedlots and factories that can interfere with animals' hormone systems, The Washington Post reported Sunday.

This is strangely analogous to the cultural pollutants that have seeped into our lives over the past several decades and their effects all over. You get what I'm saying?

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Fish don't have external genitals, so they're much more "loose" about such things. In clownfish, the largest member of a group is a female, the second-largest is a male, and the others are asexual. If the female dies, the male becomes a female, and the next-largest becomes a male. Interesting, no?

The "Pill" may have affected our lives in many more ways than so-called "sexual freedom".

I don't think you can separate the two, Cathy.

Maybe this explains RuPaul.


(Trying to avoid the "heady" posts. Nyark. Nyark. Nyark.)

Jesuits would have taught you that reasoning by analogy can be faulty.

thelrd in TEXAS

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