No one actually knows WHY anyone is gay. Research indicates some nature/nurture combination, as with most things human.

But regarding Althouse’s sons, I believe (if memory serves me) that one is gay and not secretive about that (nor is she secretive about his sexual orientation), and one is not gay.

Or, no one asks Ann Althouse why both her sons are gay.

Gus Hall was very into woodworking and had a workshop in his basement. There was an article back in the 70s or 80s by a New Leftist wondering if he and his colleagues would be like Gus in old age, resigned to their defeat and concentrating on hobbies and the private life. I suppose the writer and his peers got tenure and are now emerited, retired, or dead, but their students are in the government now. Norman Thomas stopped running for president 70 or so years ago, claiming that the country was already quite far on the road to socialism. While America isn’t completely Maoist yet, the 60s/70s left can be contented that we’ve gone quite a way on their road.

And what’s with these women who are all the time “sobbing” about this, that, and the other, and then drenching their kids in that emotional tsunami? I was raised by a single mom and while I can recall some crying, it was always context-appropriate and my mother never tried to pull me into her misery, or turn to me for comfort. Moreover, when my mother DID cry, it was pretty distressing for me simply because my mother was all the security I had in the world. Why would you want to deliberately cause your child emotional distress?

Finally, although I hate bullying with a passion, I can’t help but question the sincerity of the author’s dedication to anti-bullying as I fear she would only see bullying through her social-justice lenses. Would she have stood up to those three black teenaged girls who verbally and physically assaulted five Asian-Americans just because they were Asian and because it’s fun to pick on people?