Did a Gay Baboon Terrorize an Ain Village? |

Contents:

• DID A GAY BABOON TERRORIZE AN AIN VILLAGE?
• VILLAGE TERRORIZED BY ‘GAY’ BABOON WHO RECENTLY SODOMIZED 5 MEN
• WHEN A 'GAY' MONKEY RAN AMOK RAPG MEN AN AIN VILLAGE
• ‘GAY BABOON RAP MEN AIN VILLAGE’ STORY JT MONEY-MAKG ‘HOGWASH’
• GAY BABOON TERRORIS VILLAGERS SOUTH AI, RAP 5 MEN
• “GAY BABOON TERRORIS VILLAGERS”: SATIRE OR DANGERO HOMOPHOBIA?
• CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?
• VILLAGE TERRORIZED BY ‘GAY’ BABOON WHO RECENTLY SODOMIZED 5 MEN (VIDEO)
• GAY LNS? NOT QUE

DID A GAY BABOON TERRORIZE AN AIN VILLAGE?

Rumors about a gay baboon's "terrorizg" a village and rapg five men n be traced back to a homophobic fake news article. A gay baboon terrorized a South Ain village and raped several men.

VILLAGE TERRORIZED BY ‘GAY’ BABOON WHO RECENTLY SODOMIZED 5 MEN

An image purportedly showg a newspaper clippg featurg a story about a gay baboon rapg several men near an Ain village regularly gets shared on social media:. The person behd the Morng Post also mentned the "gay baboon" article an terview wh the Mail & Guardian Ai.

The unintified wrer ed the homophobic text as an example of the fake news stori he publish orr to fund his purportedly genue journalistic efforts:. But stuff about gay baboons, stuff about pastors sayg they went to heaven, that go viral, ” he says.

WHEN A 'GAY' MONKEY RAN AMOK RAPG MEN AN AIN VILLAGE

"Gay Baboon Terroris Ain Village, Rap 5 Men. A village Ai liv sheer dread of a homophile baboon whose sexual orientatn is a huge e of ncern for the men who ri . In April 2017, Zimbabwe News webse published a story wh a headle: “Ain village terrorised by a gay baboon who recently raped 5 men”.

“But stuff about gay baboons, stuff about pastors sayg they went to heaven, that go viral. “Take one, om April this year: ‘Gay baboon terroris villag, rap 5 men’.

Unlike chimps, bonobos are naturally bisexual—and happily engage homosexual acts for enjoyment, to solve nflicts, and to get ahead the tribe.

‘GAY BABOON RAP MEN AIN VILLAGE’ STORY JT MONEY-MAKG ‘HOGWASH’

One of the big arguments put forward agast homosexualy is that ’s unnatural, a viatn of the human md. Acrdg to Natnal Geographic, around 75 percent of bonobo sex is non-reproductive—and that clus an enormo amount of homosexual uplgs.

Now, jt bee bonobos are remarkably progrsive where homosexualy is ncerned don’t mean their behavr translat to humans. But do put paid to the ia that homosexualy is somehow “unnatural.

NatGeo: Homosexual Activy Among Animals Stirs Debate. Female bonobos have gay sex to improve their social stat.

GAY BABOON TERRORIS VILLAGERS SOUTH AI, RAP 5 MEN

A South Ain “fake news” se is repeatedly g homophobic panic as a subject of s supposedly humoro articl. The se, Natnal News Bullet, on Tuday published a piece tled “Gay baboon terroris village. Acrdg to the se, the North Wt provce villagers are livg fear over a big male baboon, named nicknamed Somizi (prumably after the openly gay South Ain personaly, Somizi Mhlongo), “that lik to grope and bonk human mal”.

The se further equated homosexualy and gay sex wh physil danger, wrg that, “Five men were admted to hospal yterday after experiencg acute anal pas and fatigue. The “fake news” uld easily be ed to affirm and perpetuate homophobia and anti-gay hysteria. In the last few days the se published another article which “reported” that a Mpumalanga burglar named Mashudu Ndalamo, who tried to rob a hoe, was terrorised and raped by a gay uple who live the home.

“GAY BABOON TERRORIS VILLAGERS”: SATIRE OR DANGERO HOMOPHOBIA?

“What Mashudu had not known was that the owners of the hoe were two gay men wh a fetish for a three-some and bondage, ” said the se. ” Homosexualy is illegal over 30 untri Ai. Wh most speci, homosexual sex has been documented only sporadilly, and there appear to be few s of dividual animals who engage exclively.

“This lony is lerally the largt proportn of — I don’t know what the rrect term is: ‘homosexual animals’? ” But the journal that published the paper, Blogy Letters, sent out a prs release a few days after the California Supreme Court legalized gay marriage. A Denver-based publitn for gay parents weled any and all new rears om “the extensive lbian albatross parent muny.

” A gay rights advote e-mailed Young, askg her to fly a rabow flag above each female-female nt, to intify them and show solidary. In 1999, Bagemihl published “Blogil Exuberance, ” a book that pulled together a lossal amount of prev piecemeal rearch and showed how blogists’ bias had margalized animal homosexualy for the last 150 years — sometim nocently enough, sometim an eptn of anthropomorphic disgt.

CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?

” Homosexual sex between ostrich was terpreted by one scientist as “a nuisance” that “go on and on. Homosexualy is a tough se, bee appears to vlate that central te, that all of sexual behavr is about reproductn. Given this big umbrella of theory, the very existence of homosexual behavr animals n feel a ltle like imperable nonsense, somethg a rearcher uld spend years bangg his or her head agast the wall liberatg.

The difficulty of that challenge, more than any implic or explic homophobia, may be why past blogists skirted the THE LAST DECADE, however, Pl Vasey and others have begun velopg new hypoth based on actual, prolonged observatn of different animals, cipherg the ways given homosexual behavrs may have evolved and the evolutnary role they might play wh the ntext of dividual speci.

So far, the only real ncln this relatively small body of lerature seems to pot to, llectively, is a kd of flatg, meta-ncln: a sgle explanatn of homosexual behavr animals may not be possible, bee thkg of “homosexual behavr animals” as a sgle scientific subject might not make much sense. My take on is that homosexual behavr is not a uniform phenomenon. But that shouldn’t trick to thkg that homosexual behavr has some equivalent, anizg purpose — that the two are tidy oppos.

VILLAGE TERRORIZED BY ‘GAY’ BABOON WHO RECENTLY SODOMIZED 5 MEN (VIDEO)

“All this homosexual behavr isn’t tied together by that sort of primary functn, ” Vasey said. But we’re quick to nceive of that great range of activi the way most handily tracks to our anthropomorphic pot of view: put crassly, all those different animals jt seem to be dog gay sex stuff wh one another. ”Somethg siar may be happeng wh what we perceive to be homosexual sex an array of animal speci: we may be groupg together a big grab bag of behavrs based on only a superficial siary.

GAY LNS? NOT QUE

The Stanford blogist Joan Roughgarn told me to thk of all the animals as “multaskg” wh their private ’s also possible that some homosexual behavrs don’t provi a nventnal evolutnary advantage; but neher do they upend everythg we know about blogy. As Z put , “There’s a lot of slop the system — which, ” she was sure to add, “is not the same as sayg homosexualy is a mistake. Homosexual activy is often observed animal populatns wh a shortage of one sex — the wild but more equently at zoos.

She’s not tryg to expla homosexual behavr. Young’s hband, a blogil nsultant, was actually an thor of the paper, along wh Brenda Zn (who is also not gay, for what ’s worth). Young found the assumptn offensive — not bee she was beg mistaken for gay, but bee she was beg mistaken for a bad scientist; the people seemed to prume that her rearch was promised by a personal agenda.

Still, some of the blogists dog the most cisive work on animal homosexualy are fact gay.