Bravo! I love everyone's egg and sperm narratives. I am curious, has anyone ever heard of the story "Night-Sea Journey" by John Barth? It is a gripping tale of a dangerous voyage, divulged in first-person from a type of traveler whose exact identity is difficult to discern. He confesses the fear of death, the heartbreaking competition, and the loss of his brothers on this journey, which is also, apparently, a type of race. The character's position in the race confounds him, and he relates feelings of dread and existential discomfort, witnessing mysterious apparitions such as birds and mystical sea-waters on his way to some ultimate goal that not even he can articulate. In the end the reader usually realizes that the story is about a sperm. “You who I am about to become, whatever You are”, he says.
Stories such as these, immersed in mythology, fascinates me, and I have an ambivalent opinion of how women have been represented in most religions and mythologies. However one thing is for certain: there is little difference, at times, between how much clarification on the comparative values of the sexes arises from literature and science.
Kate, thank you for that article, I think it was important to read. However it was horrible. This type of thing depresses me, it is the kind of thing that makes me so angry all I can do is pace around my house really hard.
The horror of the article I would blame on the writer, who is talentless, impatient, and graceless. He or she was obviously employed in the wake of the biologist's failed Nazi agenda, and served as the soapbox on which the scientist could stand and spit his propaganda.
I think it would be of more use to look for a gene for homophobia rather than a gene for homosexuality. Or maybe a gene for good writers? Hmm..
That bit in the middle, about how gays are over-represented in sitcoms. I would laugh if it weren't so absurd. Of course there are more gay people in television shows-- sitcoms are filmed in cities, cultural hubs, places with dynamic energy and creative folk, places where gays and lesbians have traditionally flocked to following their dreams of leaving prejudice behind and living in free expression. What do they expect? Sorry, bro, small-town homophobes that live their whole lives in front of a TV watching local news and religious zealots, living in fear of every single other type of lifestyle besides his own and eating Cheetos are tragically under-represented in sitcoms. Because they are boring. We've seen enough of them in real life. Why would we give them a TV show.
(Disclaimer-- that's not always true. In my opinion, Roseanne is a really good show about... 'boring', average people, I guess you could say. But even they had gay characters, and they were hilarious).
I think the reason gay people often have such marvelous senses of humor is because they are forced to, because they live with so much against them, the only way to make their struggle tolerable is to learn to laugh.
 I feel worse for homophobes than for their victims because homophobes live in sad, small, laughless worlds. What doesn't kill us makes us who we are, right?