Wellsy wrote:One needs to acknowledge human nature as a unity of biological basis but determined by a social development. This requires seeing both the continuity between man and ape as well as the discontinuity.
Only from such a conception can one seek to acknowledge biological facts wothout it being a mechanistic materialism.
From such a perspective one can begin to see the division of labor that gaves a presumed gendered essence to the sexes which isn’t found in their biology but reflective of their activity in the real world.
But it would indeed be a contradiction of methods to assert social construct whilst that of a gay gene which reflect both one sided methods. The mechanistic one that thinks biology determines everything and the other a vulgar sociology.
Something useful in the future is not to smash two ideas together independent of a real person. Otherwise its just an imagined combination of a hypothetical person, here it seems some cliche liberal which if they did hold such views simultaneously would be inconsistent and confused. But since there is no example of such, not much is touched upon except the inconpatiability of the viewpoints implicitly.
The breadth of the unknowns is quite staggering.
We don't know what causes the different orientations in sexual attraction. There is speculation and a bit of research here and there, but nothing conclusive. It may have something to do with environment, genetics, prenatal hormonal environment, or some other unknown factor. Or some combination thereof.
We don't know the role "choice" plays in sexual orientation.
We don't know the degree to which sexual attraction is binary (straight/gay) or whether it's a more of a spectrum. We don't know why some gays exhibit nominally 'effeminate' traits and others hyper-masculine traits.
There's no evidence that homosexuality is a mental illness, although the tension between social pressure and orientation may cause any underlying problem to be exacerbated.
All the unknowns that characterize gender roles also apply to sexual orientation.
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters. -Antonio Gramsci