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by toasterlovin
3636 days ago
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I think homophobia is the reason why non-straight genes are present in the gene pool. It is a strategy for parents and siblings to make sure that their non-straight relatives reproduce despite their natural inclinations. Just a disclaimer though: this is not at all a justification for homophobia, in the same way that the (mostly) male impulse to violence is not a justification for said violence. |
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From the point of view of genetic fitness, homosexuality is not adaptive. So you would think that the genes that contribute to homosexuality would be powerfully selected against, since the number of expected offspring from same sex intercourse is zero.
Yet gay people make up a sizable portion of the population, which is not at all what you would expect. Unless there is some mechanism by which homosexuals have historically had children despite their natural inclinations.
Given that some portion of anti-gay attitudes seem to be oriented toward getting them to "be more straight" (or whatever), it seems possible to me that homophobia (or at least a certain flavor of it) is an adaptation whose purpose is to get family members to pressure a gay person into having offspring, since they would have a genetic interest in those offspring.
But that is an argument about why a certain behavior might exist in humanity. It is not an argument that homophobia is okay or justified. It is not okay.