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I try not to read Paglia but I let the gay genes teaser draw me in. I wish I hadn't. The facile psychobabble she tosses off is insulting to anyone whose bodies went through a gay puberty long before their minds could recognize it. She should consider that gay people may have leapt on biological evidence because it felt innately valid to them. There is a vast range of personalities within every sexual preference; her reduction of homosexuality to the result of simplistic social conditions is ridiculous. There are real, non-oblivious thinkers out there who could write for Salon for reasons other than trying to shock with witless contrarianism. This is bilge.
