… so ran a recent headline in the Express newspaper (click headline the headline to read it...if you dare).
‘Experts,’ we are led to believe, are creating homosexual moths in an effort to
curb the UK’s growing moth problem. But are they? Are they really? Or is this
the most heinous piece of ‘science writing’ ever?
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| The elephant hawk moth: not gay. |
According the article, scientists have developed a chemical
lure that attracts male moths. It’s a synthetic pheromone which then settles on
the insect’s body, making it smell like a female and seem irresistible to other
males. The guy moths are then so busy trying to mate with one another that they
forget about the females. They have been ‘turned gay.’
Let me begin by saying, just for the record, that I don’t
have a problem with gay moths. Some of my best friends are gay moths. Insects, I
believe, should be allowed to make their own lifestyle choices just as we do. If
there was a ‘Moth Pride’, I’d go. But are these animals really gay?
Dousing male moths in female pheromones is the equivalent of
plucking a man from a pub, putting him a dress and a wig, and spraying him with
a fine mist of ‘Temptation’ by Impulse. Sure, he might turn heads but if another
man offers to buy him a drink, we don’t presume that man to be homosexual. It
could be the disguise is so convincing he thinks he is chatting up a lady…
albeit one with unusually large hands and stubble.
