This news lends itself to all sorts of jokes. Scientists made fruit flies gay by activating a single gene. Females with an activated “male” gene reject males and court females, while “males with a damaged version ignore females and sometimes try to mate with other males.” (Via Slate)
Indeed, this is no joking matter.
I hope the fly community, as they gather around dung or rotting garbage, will remember this: hate the sin but love the sinner.
I wonder if they shun the gay fruit flies.
No, actually the shoo them with the request “don’t bother me.”
I just had one of my frequent but usually fruitless (ahem) brain flashes … it might be that the hetero flies would shun the gay flies because the KEY to their survival is lots and lots of procreation. And so it’d go with humans … i.e., is there a built-in prejudice against those who can’t procreate? Like there is a loss of attraction towards women past their child-bearing years, or those who can’t procreate? (Just idle speculation, but I wonder if the imprint of the need for procreation is that strong.)
Well, seeing as how determined babyspewers of the fundie persuasion tend to be shunned by hetero males in favor of skinny little confections with artificial breasts, I fear your theory doesn’t, um, fly.