Date: Thu, 08 Aug 1996 15:05:28 -0700
   From: "Harold C.Hayes" <hayesman@webspan.net>

   Thomas R Jefferys wrote:

   > >Akane:  No, Father!  You have not "failed" me, I was born this way!  No,
   > >I'm not saying your genes are faulty!  Look, there's some literature on
   > >the desk;  maybe it'll help.
   > 
   > The way I see it, "getting the fit right" for reproduction is so important
   > that heterosexuality would be strictly enforced by our genes unless there
   > was an evolutionary advantage. It might, in fact, be codominant... Well,
   > now I'm starting to spam, so I'll just leave it at that.

   You see?  Look at it this way; if homosexuality is inherited, doesn't 
   that create a paradox?

Uhh, study some eukaryotic genetics, not to mention population
genetics; things simply aren't that simple, especially when you get
into inheritance of behavior.  Let me put it this way, said paradox
would not allow genetic diseases that kill people before they can
reproduce, but we are sadly familiar with a variety of them.

Eukaryotic reproductive systems are truly amazing, but they aren't
perfect---and such imperfection has positive surivial characteristics
in general, since useless or detrimental genes in a population may,
with a change in environment, be very useful.  Richard Dawkin's _The
Selfish Gene_ would be a good place to start on this area (an it's a
amazing book; you'll likely understand the world a lot better after
reading it).

   > >        (Ranma and Akane walking to class, him on the fence.)
   > >
   > >Ranma:  So, you're really a lesbian?
   > <<SNIP>>
   > >
   > >Ranma:  Hey, I can keep your secret if you can keep mine!

   > This whole bit sounded too much like a lecture.

   Ditto.

I actually liked it (sure it was a bit like a lecture---but lectures
do have their place).  And it prompted me to realize why I like the
"Akane as a lesbian" premise so much: it gives the two of them some
serious common ground, as this passage illustrates.

					- Harold