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My Samoan Mother Does Not Need Affirmative Action
An AA surgeon, who got into medical school with lower aptitude, grades, test scores and abilities, should operate on my Samoan mother, even though there are better-qualified physicians! Besides your Native grandmother makes you a bigger victim than me with a Mexican (Aztec) mother, so you need AA more. However, I am especially needy, because my ...
Posted to XX Factor by Ralph7 on June 28, 2008
re: genetic homosexuality..It is X-linked.
I hope someone has mentioned somewhere in the discussion that the x chromosome in males comes from the mother. Therefore all of the shared traits (increased fecundity, homosexuality, etc.) follow the pattern of gene on an inherited x chromosome. The female chromosome carrying traits associated with sexuality does not seem like a big ...
Posted to Human Nature by drugdoc on June 26, 2008