Bad Punchline: Nah, we're all lesbians anyway.

Of course the hetero-curious argument against the 'how do you know' cliche in my 'Objectivity' post a few weeks ago is one way to mess with people's heads but I've come up with a better one. How can you argue about sexuality at all when every person on earth is a lesbian? I feel there could be some spluttering and confusion as a natural reaction to this. You must simply and very calmly explain to them the way that human sex chromosomes work. Some people are mutants and end up with too many or too few sex chromosomes (just like they can end up with three sets of other chromosomes as with Down Syndrome). People who have 57 XXY are sterile 'males' with some 'female' characteristics and people with 57 XYY are so-called 'super males' and are sterile as well as purported to be especially aggressive and violent. People who have 55 X are 'female' and with modern technology can have children that genetically belong to them. Zygotes with the misfortune of getting the 55 Y mutation never become viable fetuses because they cannot. Humans require at least one X chromosome to live. The human default is to become female. It is the presence of a Y chromosome that causes a fetus to display 'male' characteristics instead but as a Y chromosome is not necessary for life and the human default form is female really we're all women even those of us with our genitals on the outside. And if every person on earth is female then every person on earth (barring anyone who is asexual) is a lesbian. If everyone's a lesbian than sexuality becomes a moot point. So, I think the next time somebody feels like debating sexuality in terms of religion I'll dismissively say: "Nah, we're all lesbians anyway."

Progressive Dipodic Perambulatory Syndrome

Progressive Dipodic Perambulatory Syndrome


I would like to thank my friend Ivan, who once worked with me to develop an informative website about this medical problem back when we were in high school, for indirectly reminding me about this issue so I could write about it for you all. We didn't actually talk about PDPS but having him up to visit reminded me about this and made me wish I still had access to the website we made. Unfortunately if the website exists at all it's only on a server at our highschool and nowhere I could actually access it. I'm going to try to recreate my research on this seemingly obscure but widely prevalent issue.


In case you didn't know Progressive Dipodic Perambulatory Syndrome is a serious epidemic. 97% of Americans over the age of two years suffer from this problem (most likely yourself included). However this is not just a problem in the United States and other first-world countries but may be just as much if not more of a problem in underdeveloped nations and across the globe. 2-3% of adults in America are even seriously affected by this syndrome even in their sleep when typically the harsh symptoms of PDPS are arrested during slumber.

Most people are not only totally ignorant of PDPS but those that are aware of its dangers dismiss the problem as being an acceptable risk. An acceptable risk that claims the lives of 13,000 people each year in the United States alone. Unfortunately reliable data concerning the number of deaths PDPS causes globally is unavailable but considering that not only is the population of the United States just under 5% of the global population but also the medical care in the United States is considerably better than most of the world it's not hard to think just how large the numbers of lives claimed globally by PDPS really are.

Some people who shouldn't be ignorant of the dangers of PDPS are the members of the CDC and yet the CDC recommends that anyone over the age of six do activity that will exacerbate the symptoms of PDPS. That means that if you are a resident of the United States the health agency the government designed to protect you is actually encouraging you to make yourself sick. This is advice that could lead to your death but is widely available on the CDC website under the guise of helpful medical advice.

If thirteen thousand deaths in the United States every year does not concern you let me tell you about some of the other non-fatal injuries that can occur as a result of PDPS. PDPS can result in a huge variety of injuries including but not limited to breakages of every major bone in the human body. PDPS can incur slipped discs, internal bleeding, brain injuries, and among serious PDPS cases can even end in heart attack. PDPS is a serious ailment about which you're unlikely to have ever heard anything.

I would like to encourage you to spread the word about PDPS to your friends and relatives. This is a ailment that can be fixed but only if people are aware of it. Without knowing its dangers people cannot be expected to prevent injuries caused by PDPS.