"Lesbian parenting is not a social experiment; it is a biological certainty."~ Eric C.G'day, folks I'll expand on my quotation at the conclusion of this post. I'll launch straight into that most basic form of activism - the speech.The ongoing controversy over same-sex relationships puzzles me. It seems to ignore things which affected our lives from the moment of birth.When the total human population numbered a mere five thousand or so, there occurred an 'experiment' that was both breath-taking in its audaciousness and awesome in its consequences. At a time when every viable birth was vital, 'we' turned off a female's ability to reproduce. We invented the female menopause. Freed of bearing her own children, the grandmother could help her daughters raise the grandchildren. The human infant needed somebody to help it through its prolonged period of dependency. That help would only be forthcoming if the helper was freed of child-bearing.Be it evolution or intelligent design that relationship between two women is the book in which is written half of the human story. The other half is in the same book but it's now smudged and not easy to read.Almost from the moment of birth a male seems programmed to seek an association with another male. If that relationship cannot be one of equality ('mates') then he'll settle for one of submission or domination. Whatever the outcome, two males united now face the world, where before there were two singles. The reason why that union is so desirable (from the two partners point of view) has nothing whatever to do with copulation.The undeniable reality is that two males united can take their pick of everything - of food, of territory, and of course, females. And if two is good, then many is better. A pair is powerful, but a gang is omnipotent. In the normal scheme of things, the lone male, encumbered by his female partner, would never have stood a chance.But, almost as if the entire human population were kinky, we never gave normality a fair go. We decreed that the 'basis of society' was mother, father, and a random number of offspring. We deplored gangs; they were the province of the 'bikie element'. And males sorting themselves into a hierarchy would now be regarded as a sexual perversion. We were dismantling all the inventions which had carried the human cavalcade. Only the wheels still turn, albeit ever slower.They too will fall off, when that other marvellous invention - the Y-chromosome - can no longer hold them on the axles. The Y-chromosome, the thing that turns a female into a male, is taking damage that it cannot repair. The Y-chromosome, on which we pinned our hopes for sexual reproduction, would free us from the tyranny of our co-evolvers, the parasites. But the Y-chromosome must travel light, and fast. It could not afford spares, or a repair kit. The Y-chromosome was our response to a problem, a problem we hoped would disappear.The passage of the next 150,000 years or so may well see us meet the challenges of disease, and parasites. If not, then we'll have to carry on the fight without Y-. For Y- will have crashed and burned, and in its ashes will be all that remains of maleness.Lesbian parenting is not a social experiment; it is a biological certainty. Gentlemen, that should not dismay us. We were put here to do a job. Without us, humans would be like the amoeba, multiplying by division, and never able to get ahead of our co-evolvers, the parasites. Do not despair. We are here for a good time, not a long time. The ladies will need to do a few plumbing modifications, but they'll carry on. And we'll carry on, too. For as long as this old bus can put altitude under its wings. Gentlemen, would you charge your glasses? I give you a toast. To the women we love. "The Drinking Song". For the streaming-audio version of this stirring song, visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRv9tyz1XVcReferences: "Adam's Curse": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam's_Curse "Sex, Time and Power" by Leonard Shlain: http://www.sextimeandpower.com/Eric aka Bottom_Liner
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