innerbrat wrote:The Duchess of Zeon wrote:
The sad thing is that homosexuals and those who even have outright physically transexual characteristics (hermaphroditism, whether true or partial), probably fulfilled a function in primitive societies of easing the burden of child care, food collection, and tool production, on the reproducing part of society so that the infant mortality rate was reduced.
I'll buy that. Fits in perfectly with the Grandmother Hypothesis, and I really do think that human biparental care was not necessarily originally provided by the biological father (it's a whole thing about hunting and male bonding)
Really? I seem to recall that being raised by your biological parents was the norm for quite a long stretch of human history. I have
also noticed that the importance of the biological father in a child's life is being heavily dis-advertized. (Probably not the right word there.)
The question then becomes, did a fact from prehistory spawn the propaganda campaign of the last 40 years? Or did the propagandists somehow stumble onto a fact which for thousands of years went mostly unreported? Okay, threadjack terminated. Sorry, kids.
EDIT: Sorry, you'll have to pardon me if I'm a little touchy on the subject of the progressive trend to view fathers as, at best, absentee incomes and, more often, unnecessary appendages which take up space in the home better used for the wife's Fling-O-The-Week. (Oh, touchier than I thought! lol) Since I happen to
be a father myself (formerly the latter, and lately the former) I tend to take such theories as attacks of a somewhat personal nature. I know that's stupid, but I can't help it.