Born this Way or Life As Drag? Ah, Essentialism vs. Constructivism: as much as we would LIKE to side
Born this Way or Life As Drag? Ah, Essentialism vs. Constructivism: as much as we would LIKE to side with the real drag queen here, the truth is never so simple or easy, but it’s none the less fierce learning we need. The Punch and Judy argument sourced in the Gay Academy, may god ever protect those latte sipping white people living their Hogwarts life-style, and that has be perniciously recycled outside, it has riven the gays from the queers, etc., etc., is completely out of touch with what we know about Homo Sexualis Priapus, the main subject of our own personal and independent longitudinal studies. Enter Dual Inheritance Theory: “…or Gene-Culture Coevolutionary Theory (Boyd & Richerson, 1985; Laland, et al., 1995), can be organized around three key concepts (Henrich & McElreath, 2007): Cultural capacities as adaptations: Culture, cultural transmission, and cultural evolution arise from genetically evolved psychological adaptations for acquiring ideas, beliefs, values, practices, mental models, and strategies from other individuals by observation and inference. Thus, the first step in theorizing is to use the logic of natural selection to develop hypotheses about the evolution and operation of our cultural learning capacities (Rendell et al., 2011). Cultural evolution: These cognitive adaptations give rise to a robust second system of inheritance (cultural evolution) that operates by different transmission rules than genetic inheritance, and can thus produce phenomena not observed in other less cultural species. Theorizing about these processes requires taking what we know about human cultural learning and cognition, embedding them into evolutionary models that include social interaction, and studying their emergent properties with the goal of making empirical predictions. Culture-gene coevolution: The second system of inheritance created by cultural evolution can alter both the social and physical environments faced by evolving genes, leading to a process termed culture-gene coevolution. For example, it appears that the practice of cooking spread by social learning in ancestral human populations. Once spread, ‘cooked food’ became a selective force that shrunk our digestive tracks, teeth, stomachs, and gape (Wrangham, 2009). Such a reduced investment in digestive tissues may have freed up energy for more brain building, and perhaps a greater reliance on cultural information. Empirical evidence from genetics suggests that culture has long shaped our genome (Laland, et al., 2010; Richerson, et al., 2010).” More here Biology blows the lid off of the false cartoonish dichotomy of Essential/Constructed that have been cooked up by the Queeries in their phoney lab. The whole Godzilla vs. Rodan side-show would be risible, except it’s had such a deep impact of how fags think of themselves (is there anything you queens won’t buy?). DIT informs us not only of how gays came into being, dragging our asses out of the slime of heterosexuality, but why we keep evolving into new fresh forms. It made the idea of God and Pi and Leathermen! Endlessly fecund, nature keeps cumming in our faces. What a perve! We’ll see RuPaul and raise her: Life is a Drag Queen! It was she who came up with our so-called unnatural lifestyle. (We think DIT applies to straight people too, but there is little current evidence they are evolving.) Sure, Evolution is one Tricky Bitch, but we’ll take her grave wisdom over that muddle-headed crowd of false prophets at the MLA conference any time. HOMO MAGAZINE: FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK & TWITTER -- source link