Comments on: Pretty Flamingo http://crookedtimber.org/2007/05/22/pretty-flamingo/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:00:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jacob Christensen http://crookedtimber.org/2007/05/22/pretty-flamingo/comment-page-1/#comment-197391 Jacob Christensen Wed, 23 May 2007 13:12:18 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/05/22/pretty-flamingo/#comment-197391 @bad jim: Could this explain why Donald Duck doesn't wear any trousers? Anyway, if we leave aside the fact that Carlos and Fernando are a couple of pinkos, then there must be some form of advantage from being in a same-sex partnership compared to being a single flamingo if the phenomenon is not uncommon. @bad jim: Could this explain why Donald Duck doesn’t wear any trousers?

Anyway, if we leave aside the fact that Carlos and Fernando are a couple of pinkos, then there must be some form of advantage from being in a same-sex partnership compared to being a single flamingo if the phenomenon is not uncommon.

]]> By: bad Jim http://crookedtimber.org/2007/05/22/pretty-flamingo/comment-page-1/#comment-197373 bad Jim Wed, 23 May 2007 08:31:25 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/05/22/pretty-flamingo/#comment-197373 Actually, bird sex seems to be rather hit or miss. <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/05/twisty_maze_of_duck_oviducts.php" rel="nofollow">Ducks</a> aside, if fucking is nothing more than cloaca to cloaca, it's questionable whether birds can ever realize they're gay. Flamingos, though, are always flamingly so. Actually, bird sex seems to be rather hit or miss. Ducks aside, if fucking is nothing more than cloaca to cloaca, it’s questionable whether birds can ever realize they’re gay.

Flamingos, though, are always flamingly so.

]]> By: Ivo http://crookedtimber.org/2007/05/22/pretty-flamingo/comment-page-1/#comment-197334 Ivo Tue, 22 May 2007 21:27:53 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/05/22/pretty-flamingo/#comment-197334 Quite frankly, I find the practice, quite widespread in the mass media and manifested in the article, sticking human socio-cultural labels to animals superficial and misleading. Do our cultural norms, transitory themselves, apply to the animal kingdom? Are Flamingos really "gay"? By the same token, isn't more appropriate to describe them as "bi-"? Or, wouldn't be in fact more correct to say that in the case of Flamingos the basic social network - living in pairs - is apparently far more important that the actual sex of the birds? Sure, "Gay Flamingos" sound more sensational and loaded but it obscure a much more interesting observation. There is no equivalence to Flamingos pairing mode in contemporary Western culture. Actually, in Western society the pairing mode works exactly the other way around - sex and gender divide, and come first in relative importance; living as a social unit lags far behind. Please excuse me for my English, it's not my mother tongue. Quite frankly, I find the practice, quite widespread in the mass media and manifested in the article, sticking human socio-cultural labels to animals superficial and misleading. Do our cultural norms, transitory themselves, apply to the animal kingdom? Are Flamingos really “gay”? By the same token, isn’t more appropriate to describe them as “bi-”? Or, wouldn’t be in fact more correct to say that in the case of Flamingos the basic social network – living in pairs – is apparently far more important that the actual sex of the birds?

Sure, “Gay Flamingos” sound more sensational and loaded but it obscure a much more interesting observation. There is no equivalence to Flamingos pairing mode in contemporary Western culture. Actually, in Western society the pairing mode works exactly the other way around – sex and gender divide, and come first in relative importance; living as a social unit lags far behind.

Please excuse me for my English, it’s not my mother tongue.

]]> By: Steve LaBonne http://crookedtimber.org/2007/05/22/pretty-flamingo/comment-page-1/#comment-197308 Steve LaBonne Tue, 22 May 2007 15:31:21 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/05/22/pretty-flamingo/#comment-197308 Thank God Jerry Falwell didn't live to see such immorality! ;) Thank God Jerry Falwell didn’t live to see such immorality! ;)

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