Oh boy, I'm worried about where this thread could go. Anyways, I definitely think that school systems should be teaching, children how to survive as adults by doing things like taxes and cooking INSTEAD OF LEARNING ABOUT HOW CELLS DIVIDE AND DINOSAURS DIED. Like, please, I know school is supposed to cover everything, but I have barely used any of my knowledge from grade school because I hav NEVER NEEDED IT.
I wouldn't say "instead" rather "with" bc personally I think that they cover a wide range in grade school in order to tap into the child's potential like, where do you think this child will excel? Will he be a historian, a biologist, a mathematician, a writer, etc. etc.? Of course you wouldn't know that first hand unless you show the child all the possibilities and stuff. Plus, it's a good-to-know sometimes and a wider knowledge will help you understand the world better! That's the way I see it, and I only appreciated that now.
Also sometimes, weirdly enough, things you didn't know were connected actually are. Like, when I was in high school I really, really,
really hated physics bc I kept on failing that. When I got to Uni majoring in Biology, I learned that I needed to take a class in physics in order to understand the rhythmic heartbeat and stuff and now I'm beyond annoyed bc I thought I was done with physics, man.
But it's true that they should teach us all about money and taxes and stuff!
Asides from major subjects in grade school, we also had one that was like home economics that taught us how to sew (they made us sew pajamas and pillow cases), how to earn a living (they had us sell snacks around the school) and how to cook (we had cooking contests in class!), so I guess that counts towards the school teaching us as children how to survive like adults.
I think people need to realize that, scientifically, there is no reasons for humans to be attracted to the same gender. We have breeding instincts and that drives all those natural feelings and drive. There are quite a few different theories on why people are sexually attracted to people of the same sex. Here are a couple of theories:
a) The mind has just developed past these basic instincts and people are able to just focus on pleasure from whatever source they prefer.
b) There is a "gay gene" in your DNA. This is very unlikely according to research that we have so far.
c) People turn away from these instincts from being mentally abused in some way. For example, a women being abused sexually or mentally (such as being molested by a parent or uncle) might give them reason to not experience anything like that again, and rightly so.
There are a lot more theories.
I personally think it has to do with upbringing, a bit of a mixture of a and c. However I think humans tend to cling on to whoever they can as long as it brings them pleasure and security. That's my personal take on it, but if you want to have a discussion about it I love hearing others' POVs.
Oh, science! (Also did you mean sex and not gender?)
I know of a few animals that are attracted to the same sex, one of which are female bonobos that have sex as a tactic to relieve stress (or something like that lol). Other animals such as several species of whiptail lizards are all female, which makes it really odd since they can breed!
The bonobos example isn't actually scientific but more on behavioral actually, but the case of the whiptail lizards, in which breeding is a scientific area, still astounds me o: