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LW: "being a younger brother makes you gay, the Catholic hierarchy is full of younger brothers, ergo 80% of the Vatican is gay"
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ybwqL9HiXE8XeauPK/how-gay-is-the-vatican
Reminds me of an SMBC comic that had a setup along the same lines, that if male birth order correlates with homosexuality and family size trends being what they are, the past must have been considerably gayer on average.
Obligatory Colm Tóibín: Among the Flutterers
🚨🚨🚨 Do not take Ray Blachard's work seriously !
Ray "Asian cartoons cause trans people" Blachard.
Oh look, it's a penis! I should put some sort of ring around it and see what gets it slightly erect! Repeatedly! For science!
You know, what I find most hilarious about the "fraternal birth order effect" is that they're so obsessed with eugenics and biological essentialism that they're ignoring that the very very obvious social fact of growing up with older brothers might have a lil bit more of an effect than "maternal antibodies to the neuroligin NLGN4Y protein".
edit: Oh right, they pretend they're accounting for that! Yeah no, I've heard all about your "twin studies" and things, I'm not joining your cult.
Considering how rightwingers have tried to link gayness to pedophilia this is a subject I would avoid if I was them. E: and gwern just goes there.
The comments are ... "a hoot"
combines ageism, ableism ,and homophobia into one neat package
Also that weird 'breed early' fetish common in a lot of rw spaces. And last I looked at it this whole 'older people do worse' thing while it mostly seems (it is complicated and lot of things can happen etc)to exist mostly affects the pregnancy less so the child, and even then the effects didnt seem to be big. Not big enough to be relevant here. (But iirc 99.99% of the research in this is only in about pregnancies, so wouldn't put much stock in 'older parents affect on IQ' style research, due to the type of people interested in that).
But im not a researcher, just a person who looked at the stats a couple of years back and apart from pregnancy risk i wasnt that worried.
E: and look at that the op there agrees with me.