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This in itself is very normal.
It is. As is being part of the LGBTQ+ community, which also isn't about to die out any time soon despite being the exact antithesis of natural selection.
Exactly. Being 2SLGBTQIA+ and being childfree may also be about environmental psychology or community psychology rather than about genetics.
I remember reading this one study that found that for every older brother a man has hus chances of ending up gay were increased by 33% for each. How does you having more brothers change YOUR genetics? Does a person with a uterus having more male babies change her genetics so that 'TheGay Genes'(we have not been able to identify definiteively which genes can lead to 'gayness') becomes expressed more inside her and her offspring? This connection may have nothing to do with genetics. Maybe its just a psychological aspect that a male with more brothers starts to look up towards and seek protection from males more often than they look up to and are protected by non-males, so maybe psychologically speaking they are more likely to seek out a male partner when they grow up. 🤷🏿♂️
SO being gay or 2SLGBTQIA+ cant really 'die out' because it may not be completely genetically linked it may also be about the community psychology that a person grows up with.
I cant say for certain since I dont have any certification in genomics or psychology so take all of the preceding with a grain of salt
I will say that I am childfree from a psychological aspect and not at all from a biological or genetic aspect. I have a breeding kink but Ive come to realize that the modern world and the modrrn economy is not one which makes me want to raise ANY children. If the capitalistic economy and genocidal socieites that we have today didnt exist I would definitely have children ...but over the years my desire to breed has been battered and battered by the awful things Ive seen people do to each other, the awful things that have happened to me, and the awful things I hear about people doing to each other on the news...
There's numerous people out there just like me who would want to have children but realize that they dont want their children to be blown up by some crazy politicians' needless war or that raising children is too expensive for them right now. ... And so I got snipped and some of those people will also be getting snipped!
Less normal: building a community centered on it.
Even less normal: entering said community to tell people who are minding their own business how not-normal it is to want to find community in a world that places undue emphasis on having kids.
Yeah a community of like minded people is sooo weird.