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She obviously had acting talent otherwise she would have left acting. It doesn't negate that she was possibly pushed into it at an unusually young age.
Have you really never heard of other child actors having troubled lives?
So she is troubled because she is gay or is she gay because she is troubled?
Male homosexuality- happens before birth due to excess hormones of a stressed mother.
Female- "may"* be the same however, is more likely due to environmental stimulus
...women with stressed mothers are said to be mostly more anxious due to current studies. Perhaps they can link that similarly to males pre birth exposure to stress.
-males can also be a combo of the two.
However these factors are not limited. Chemicals in food and water (such as BPA) have been said to contribute to sex hormone secretions.
That is what I have gathered from her recent public appearance where she mentions "coming out" and the accusations of her sexuality, and also mentions her mother.
This is a slap in the face to the gay-activist types who like to claim that homosexuality is a normal inborn trait.
What do you think?
It can be different for different people. Sexuality is an extremely complex thing. It isn't black and white. For Jodie Foster it may be because of her relationship with her mother.
It can be different for different people. Sexuality is an extremely complex thing. It isn't black and white. For Jodie Foster it may be because of her relationship with her mother.
That sounds perfectly reasonable and open minded to me.
But be prepared to be labelled a NARROW MINDED BIGOT by people who disagree and are unable to think of any intelligent response to that idea.
Male homosexuality- happens before birth due to excess hormones of a stressed mother.
Female- "may"* be the same however, is more likely due to environmental stimulus
...women with stressed mothers are said to be mostly more anxious due to current studies. Perhaps they can link that similarly to males pre birth exposure to stress.
-males can also be a combo of the two.
However these factors are not limited. Chemicals in food and water (such as BPA) have been said to contribute to sex hormone secretions.
Oh come on....I know a women who had 23 children and from what I understand the growing up years were harry-carry....she was always pregnant apparently and most were guys. None of them are gay. Just imagine a women with the laundry and the dish pan hands with a sex maniac coming home each night.
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As I said before on another post that referenced Foster, and which mentioned how graceful and something-or-other she was when she gave her speech, if these types of posts are accepted as topics of "Politics and Other Controversies," lots of valuable people's opinions and viewpoints will be lost here at this board, because people will become bored and they will leave.
Somehow my similarly-worded post in another thread was deleted; however, I sent a DM to the moderator asking why, because other people had posted on the same thread with a time stamp later than my post.
I do not get City Data sometimes, and why some posts are obliterated for no reason.
There seem to be many Hollywood nonsense postings here lately. Don't they belong someplace else?
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If people don't want to see any correlation, that is fine. However, it made perfect sense to me yesterday and I have been hearing about how she felt a lot of pressure from her mother during her young years as an actress.
What really bothers me, though, is the thoughtless attitude from the gay-activist types whose main agenda is to attack Christianity. Is it really so bad when a Christian shows concern for someone who is suffering from homosexuality? Someone who might even wish to know more about how to recover from the condition?
I guess it just doesn't fit into some people's selfish agendas. They will continue to tell homosexuals to "Toughen up and accept it! Don't try to change because you can't. And you are helping our anti-Christian agenda in the process."
It is not a condition and we do not suffer from it, nor do we need or want your help. It is bad when christians choose to not mind their own business and try to "help" people who do not want it. It seems the main aganda of christians and the church is to attack and discriminate against homosexual people. It is thoughtless and biased of christians to force their beliefs on others who are not interested. Whay can't they just mind their own houses and leave others alone. maybe christians should try to solve their rampant divorce rate before they attack others.
That is what I have gathered from her recent public appearance where she mentions "coming out" and the accusations of her sexuality, and also mentions her mother.
This is a slap in the face to the gay-activist types who like to claim that homosexuality is a normal inborn trait.
What do you think?
That you are dreaming. Please slap yourself in the face and wake up.
But just in case you are actually serious, perhaps this might help:
"Despite almost a century of psychoanalytic and psychological speculation, there is no substantive evidence to support the suggestion that the nature of parenting or early childhood experiences play any role in the formation of a person’s fundamental heterosexual or homosexual orientation. It would appear that sexual orientation is biological in nature, determined by a complex interplay of genetic factors and the early uterine environment."
“…the current literature and most scholars in the field state that one’s sexual orientation is not a choice; that is, individuals do not choose to be homosexual or heterosexual.”
The fetal brain develops during the intrauterine period in the male direction through a direct action of testosterone on the developing nerve cells, or in the female direction through the absence of this hormone surge. In this way, our gender identity (the conviction of belonging to the male or female gender) and sexual orientation are programmed or organized into our brain structures when we are still in the womb.
There is no indication that social environment after birth has an effect on gender identity or sexual orientation.
The scans reveal that in gay people, key structures of the brain governing emotion, mood, anxiety and aggressiveness resemble those in straight people of the opposite sex.
"This is the most robust measure so far of cerebral differences between homosexual and heterosexual subjects," she says.
Previous studies have also shown differences inbrain architecture and activity between gay and straight people, but most relied on people's responses to sexuality driven cues that could have been learned, such as rating the attractiveness of male or female faces.
To get round this, Savic and her colleague, Per Lindström, chose to measure brain parameters likely to have been fixed at birth.
"That was the whole point of the study, to show parameters that differ, but which couldn't be altered by learning or cognitive processes," says Savic.
"This study demonstrates that homosexuals of both sexes show strong cross-sex shifts in brain symmetry," says Qazi Rahman, a leading researcher on sexual orientation at Queen Mary college, University of London, UK.
"The connectivity differences reported in the amygdala are striking."
"Paradoxically, it's more informative to look at things that have no direct connection with sexual orientation, and that's where this study scores," says Simon LeVay, a prominent US author who in 1991 reported finding differences(pdf) in a part of the brain called the hypothalamus between straight and gay men.
"Epigenetics – how gene expression is regulated by temporary switches, called epi-marks – appears to be a critical and overlooked factor contributing to the long-standing puzzle of why homosexuality occurs". In the current study, researchers... integrated evolutionary theory with recent advances in the molecular regulation of gene expression and androgen-dependent sexual development to produce a biological and mathematical model that delineates the role of epigenetics in homosexuality" (2012) http://www.sciencenewsline.com/artic...116360019.html
"There's a converging line of evidence between the hormonal studies, the genetic studies , and the neuroanatomical studies. My research has identified candidate genes within these new chromosomal regions that could link together all of these different findings”
Several studies report that the cognitive performance of gay males is more typical of heterosexual females than heterosexual males.
Furthermore, the brain waves of gay males while performing verbal and spatial tasks are more similar to heterosexual females than males or significantly different from both."
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