Homosexuality will lead to race of super-ducks, claims homeschooler in local paper

[Hugabear]

This isn't to poke fun at the kid, as much as it is to show the problems with allowing unqualified parents to home-school their kids.

http://io9.com/5951908/homosexuality-will-lead-to-race-of-super+ducks-claims-homeschooler-in-local-newspaper

[Canuckistanian]

1. I, for one welcome our new avian waterfowl overlords

And once they evolve the opposing thumb thing, there will be no stopping them.

[Liberal Veteran]

2. I love the last line.

You can't be in favour of homosexuality, or the ducks will get you in the end.

[icymist]

3. LOLOL! What a quak!

eom

[AsahinaKimi]

4. has anyone asked Howard, what he thinks??

I thought not...

[Egalitarian Thug]

10. No, but Howard is not very evolved. n/t

[Fire Walk With Me]

23. Trapped in a world he never made!

[SomethingFishy]

6. I almost feel bad for this kid, be she real...

This could be a joke.

If it's not then I kinda feel bad for a kid born into a household that teaches them that if they don't hate then they will be destroyed. Hopefully this kid will get out of the house and rebel.

I remember the GOP dragging some little 13 year old who wrote a conservative "book" out as a hero of the conservative movement, and then 4 years later the kid grew up a little and did a complete 180 on his political views.... I just found a link to that story:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002893465

[mzmolly]

7. Smells like a poor attempt at satire

to me.

[Luminous Animal]

8. I truly believe that this is a joke.

And a very funny one.

[Hugabear]

20. Sadly, there are enough backwards parents out there. This very well could be real.

There are still plenty of homophobic bigots out there.

[HappyMe]

9. Good grief!

Doesn't spend much time with science.

Maybe she is practicing to be a beauty pageant contestant.

[Terra Alta]

11. when I saw the headline, I thought it was something from The Onion.

In any case, I hope this is a joke.. no one can be that stupid, can they?

[PD Turk]

12. Ok then

So, at the core of the kid's argument is the premise that homosexuality is harmful. What the kid is not taking into account is, homosexuality has already existed as long as humans have been alive, so if we were going to see the rise of the super ducks we should have already seen it.

In other words, no harm, no fowl.

[gollygee]

13. Bring on the ducks!

I realize she's trying to make a joke, but she still comes off as looking very stupid. My public-schooled 10-year-old read thinks so too. There's just no real logic here, in her attempt to prove that "if you believe in evolution, you can't be in favour of homosexuality."

I also notice she uses spellings like "favour" and "behaviour", so she isn't American.

[bluestate10]

16. "I also notice she uses spellings like "favour" and "behaviour", so she isn't American."

Or her teachers are stupid, which probably is the most accurate conclusion.

[gollygee]

17. I re-read and she's from New Zealand

It was right at the start so I am surprised I passed it by at first.

[bluestate10]

14. She likely will end up despising her parents once she get into the real world.

I remember the kid in Texas that spoke at CPAC as a 14 year old. He wants nothing to do with conservatism as a college freshmen and is now a liberal. Once the kid got to high school, he saw how fucked up his world was.

[pnwest]

15. Soooo...instead of rat-clawed alien overlords...

...we actually need to worry about duck-billed alien overlords......Got it! Thanks! I'll be on the lookout.

[dimbear]

18. There's an interesting series of woodcuts by Hogarth that show the evolution of these superducks.

It's called "The Drake's Progress."

[NoGOPZone]

19. I'm predicting they take over in the 24th and 1/2 Century

[teenagebambam]

21. Someone should also tell her

that ducks regularly exhibit homosexual behavior.

[KurtNYC]

24. Many birds do (which may be why the fundies dropped "unnatural" from their attacks)

Why are all the good blue ducks gay?

That’s what Cherry, the last remaining lass of her kind in England, may be asking herself after two male prospects that might have helped her perpetuate the species fell for one another instead of for her.

"They stay together all the time, parading up and down their enclosure and whistling to each other as a male might do with a female he wants to mate with," Paul Stevens, the warden at Arundel Wetland Center, tells the Telegraph.

The boy birds, Ben and Jerry, were introduced to Cherry, but to no avail. "Cherry showed some interest in him," Stevens told the newspaper, referring to Jerry. "She displayed typical mating behavior—she approached him and called to him, she even looked like she was nesting. We thought it was great and it was all going to happen, but nothing ever did."

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/extinction-countdown/2009/03/10/gay-ducks-derail-repopulation-plan/

[Incitatus]

22. That would be awesome. nt

[Fire Walk With Me]

25. Hetero and homosexual behavior are both "ancient". So is reproduction. Stop all the reproducin'!

[2on2u]

26. Duck, duck goose, when ducks win the geese won't be far behind. n/t

[aikoaiko]

27. Wow, this sort of thing happens even in New Zealand.

I though they were better than that.

[LiberalAndProud]

28. It's good to be reminded that the US doesn't hold a monopoly

on home-skooled ignorants. Or not.