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Message:: [QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 4782261, member: 110350"]You're welcome, but I think once will be enough!  I agree that the majority of comments have been very thoughtful and even empathetic, but there have been a few too many that I would characterize as somewhat dismissive and incurious, typified by a priori reasoning of the "things are the way they are because that's the way they are" or "because it's genetic" variety.* And never mind the one or two that have spilled over into hyperbolic political rants.  Not that I don't think I'm perfectly capable of holding my own in any debate about these issues -- after all, I did argue for a living for almost four decades! -- but that's not why I'm in this forum, and I'm sure you can understand that I'm in a somewhat uncomfortable position here. * Such arguments can sometimes be taken to ridiculous extents: I once saw someone claim that the preference of girls for pink and boys for blue was simply "natural," not realizing that a little more than 100 years ago the associations were precisely the opposite. (Blue was considered a color for girls because of its association with Mary, and pink was considered a junior version of red, which was a traditionally masculine color, perhaps because of its association with war and blood.)[/QUOTE]