Heath Ledger found dead in NY apartment

See! He does care! He's just trying to hide it all with anger.

I thought it was a shocking story, so I posted it. 28 is an extremely young age to die at.

Grav is just mad there isn't going to be a Brokeback sequel.

I actually just copied that from somewhere. I really couldn't care less.

Your coolness factor is so much higher than everyone else's, Grav.

I thought it was a shocking story, so I posted it. 28 is an extremely young age to die at.

People die even younger all the time.

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And that Westboro thing is wrong on so many levels. I would not want some preacher yelling over my dead body about how people will be damned by an all-benevolent God for a hormone imbalance.

hormone imbalance.

If you're implying that homosexuality is caused by a hormone imbalance, I'd like a citation, please.

There is no citation - the cause of homosexuality has not yet been determined.

I wasn't claiming that was the only cause, as homosexuality is thought to be caused by a number of different things - most commonly a mixture of biological, social, and psychological circumstances.

There is no actual proof for hormone imbalances causing homosexuality. However the traits that homosexuals possess hint at the presence of a dominant sex hormone which - in heterosexual cases - is not prevalent. One might look at a lesbian and notice she is more masculine. Masculinity is caused in part by testosterone. The same may go for gays - they are more effeminate. Ergo, more estrogen.

I'm not making broad generalizations, as each case differs.

We have really only been studying homosexuality for a short time, as it has recently become more common.

My thought on the prevalence of homosexuality in recent times (and possibly metrosexuality) is that pesticide usage is a key factor.

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I love being proven wrong; it's some sort of academic masochism.

Do me in.

Are you aware that the Greeks and Romans had widespread homosexuality as well, far before the prevalence of pesticides?

They promoted homosexuality in their armies.

No, I wasn't trying to prove you wrong. I just generally keep up with such things, and hadn't heard that a hormone imbalance caused homosexuality.

You may be interested in checking out information on a gene called xq28, however. If you're interested, I could get you pdfs of some papers.

No, I wasn't trying to prove you wrong. I just generally keep up with such things, and hadn't heard that a hormone imbalance caused homosexuality.

Sorry.

You may be interested in checking out information on a gene called xq28, however. If you're interested, I could get you pdfs of some papers.

I'd love to read them. Just by looking at the wikipedia entry on it, I can tell it isn't confirming evidence of anything, as the results of the data collection are not consistent. But I think that illustrates the idea that there is no one definitive cause.

Well, an update has been announced, it's officially stated that an accidental overdose was the cause of his death.

Medical examiner's office: "Manner of death is accident" "Brokeback Mountain" star, 28, died January 22 in a New York apartment The 2005 film won Ledger an Oscar nomination for best actor Colleagues say actor had been suffering respiratory ailment

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movi...ger/index.html