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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aldarc" data-source="post: 8030614" data-attributes="member: 5142">I apologize if this seems like a personal attack, because that is not my intention because you are not unique in this pattern when it comes to discussions on the internet. I know. Great start. You are right to ask for academic citations for assertions made about paleolithic cultures - particularly when it seems to almost venture into evolutionary psychology territory :shudders: - but to preface a standard request for citations with "as a former archaeology student" seems a bit unnecessary and it almost undercuts your point.* If you don't mind me a bit of writing feedback, I probably would have gone with something more along the lines of...That way you also end on the call to action for the respondent (i.e., provide a citation).* the "former... student" part can potentially come across like how Joe Schmoe at your work office thinks that having an undergraduate degree in philosophy from 30 years ago makes him a philosopher with smart things to say.All that said, I don't think that Haldrik needs to make an appeal to pre-history, human/bonobo evolution, and borderline "state of nature" arguments to prove that human sexuality is pretty gosh darn queer enough to challenge a lot of the prevailing narratives surrounding hetero-normativity. The queerness of human sexuality is fairly evident in numerous studies of gender/sexuality in recorded history, anthropology, psychology, and biological science.</blockquote>

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