Bill nye is gay
When you were a kid, did it seem like Bill Nye had all the answers?
Turns out “The Science Guy” is a still a great dude to go to with questions. On last week’s episode of Giant Think’s web series “Tuesdays with Bill,” the bowtie-clad scientist responded to a reader’s question about whether being gay makes evolutionary sense.
Watch the episode and peruse the full transcript here.
The viewer wrote:
If the purpose of a species is to reproduce and survive, how would it produce sense evolutionarily for humans to have same-sex preferences? Are humans the only ones who apply homosexuality? And if so does this mean that homosexuality is a product of human’s personal whim as opposed to instinct?
Nye notes that he’s “not an authority” on the subject, but points out that homosexuality has been documented among chimps and Bonobos.
He doesn’t get into the nitty-gritty on whether homosexuality makes “sense” evolutionary, but instead seems to come to the conclusion that the question isn’t that important -- at least when it comes to how we treat other people.
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Bill Nye Shows Why the Concept of Gay Conversion Therapy is Absurd
Bill Nye is known as the science guy for a reason.
In a new clip from his show, “Bill Nye Saves the World,” Nye relies on science and an adorable cartoon illustration to explain why the very idea of gay conversion therapy is just as ludicrous as a vanilla ice cream cone telling other flavors that they should pray to become vanilla, too.
It’s a smart analogy for a dangerous therapy in which gay individuals are urged to change and become straight, though there is no scientific evidence that this is possible.
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“I just think if you want to get right with the massive ice cream in the sky, change your flavor by wishing to be vanilla,” the bossy cone says. “Everyone should attempt to be vanilla until they have no longer have the urge to not be vanilla.”
The other cones, including the brainy salted caramel, the nervous strawberry, the curious chocolates and the innocent pistachio aren’t quite ready to go along with Vanilla’s plan.
“I did not ask to be pistachio,” t
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I can honestly say that one of the only good things about junior high was that my teacher let us watch "Bill Nye the Science Guy" every once in a while. Fourteen years later, Nye still doesn't disappoint. Nye did a video interview with Big Think about human sexuality and perfectly explained how complicated and fluid it is.
Answering a Big Think reader who asked whether it "make[s] sense evolutionarily for humans to have same-sex" orientations, Nye cited a book titled "The Naked Ape," which reports homosexuality among primates.
"[T]he answer nowadays we offer to everybody about this is it’s a spectrum," Nye said. "I don’t know about you, but I have known a great many gay men who are married, who have babies, who have kids. So apparently — I’m not an rule on this. I’m an observer of the human condition. Apparently, there’s a spectrum. Some people are more inclined to contain sex with people of their same sex than others. And I think if you just watch the news right now, you can see that for yourself. And so being somewhere on the spectrum of heterose
Bill Nye, the bow-tie wearing celebrity scientist, has infuriated the right wing with his public views on human sexuality. Nye had previously infuriated the right wing with his views on human-caused climate change.
Nye's new show, Bill Nye Saves the World, premiered on Netflix last month. Its 13 episodes delve into topics like artificial intelligence, genetically modified foods and video games. But it is the 9th episode, titled "The Sexual Spectrum" that seems to have attracted the ire of alt-right websites like Breitbart and The Federalist.
In one segment, for example, Nye mocks gay-conversion therapy—which has largely been discredited and, in some states, outlawed —with a cartoon in which a vanilla-flavored ice cream cone tries to "convert" more exciting flavors.
The vanilla ice cream cone declares, "I perceive that I am the most natural of the ice creams. And therefore the rest of you should go ahead and also be vanilla."
It must be said that this is not the most subtle attempt at humor or social criticism. Nye can be as grating, sometimes, as the anti-science wi