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Could You Be Straight? Here's 11 Science Facts About It To Help You Check.

If you think being straight is a choice, then I would like to recommend you read this. Because science.

Could You Be Straight? Here's 11 Science Facts About It To Help You Check.

UPDATE: You may be asking yourself, "Why the hell does this even matter?" The reason I posted this is the constant barrage of "lifestyle choice" and "they can change" comments I get from people who A. think that being gay is somehow a bad thing, 2. think that anyone can really choose who they are attracted to, and III. say science isn't a real thing.


Gender and sexual orientation are clearly not binaries of either/or. There are people all over the spectrum between straight and LGBTQQ who live their lives how they want to live them, and no amount of science that currently exists can pigeonhole them into one thing.

These findings are not to be taken as "If your hair goes this direction, you have to be this one thing." All they do is help us understand some underlying genetic traits of some human beings on this planet who are no better or worse than other human beings on this planet. Your finger length does not define who you are. Your birth order does not define who you are. Your brain size does not define who you are. You do.

At the end of the day, it's nobody's business but the person whose life it is and the consenting adult they choose to love or not love. I just wanted an extra tool in my arsenal the next time some jerk tries to dismiss an entire community of people based on their own irrational fear of things they don't understand or aren't willing to understand.

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This article originally appeared on 01.09.18


Why should a superintendent get a raise while teachers in the same district struggling to make ends meet see their paychecks flatline — year after year after year?

Teacher Deyshia Hargrave begged the question. Minutes later, she was handcuffed and placed in the backseat of a cop car.

The scene was captured below by YouTube user Chris Rosa, who attended a board meeting for Vermilion Parish Schools in Louisiana.

You can watch Hargrave begin speaking about 33 seconds in. The situation starts becoming contentious around 6:35 minutes. Hargrave is arrested at 8:35, and then walked outside in handcuffs and placed in the back of police vehicle. (Story continues below.)



"We work very hard with very little to maintain the salaries that we have," Hargrave, who teaches middle school language arts, said during a public comment portion of the meeting, stating that she's seen classroom sizes balloon during her time at the school with no increased compensation. "We're meeting those goals, while someone in that position of leadership [the superintendent] is getting raise? It's a sad, sad day to be a teacher in Vermilion Parish."

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