Ram rod

While waiting for my turn, the barber handed me something to read. The pictures of women in full un-clothed glory didn’t pique my interest as much as an article on homosexuality in sheeps did. So much has been said about homosexuality as a matter of genetics as opposed to something acquired, so this certainly got me reading.

What completely (a)roused my interest, however, was the purported economic repercussions of homosexuality. Ewe! Farmers in the Oregon State were concerned about lost revenues because rams were ramming other rams instead of ewes. Now scientists at the Oregon State University have jumped into the jute sack and have begun, the article reports, rearranging the chromosomes to reverse homosexuality in sheeps. Not to be left out in the cloud of farmers’ dust, gay activists had expressed opposition because this chromosome reversal might be used to breed out gays. Double ewe!

I think gays – the humans, not the sheeps - are missing the real issue here. That gays are bred out should be the least of their concerns; the impact on fashion should. Imagine what the absence of gay pillars of fashion would do to the fall and winter line. Disaster, I tell you, disaster.

~ by rodtrip on March 25, 2007.