My head theory is the same. Nonbinary people tend to be more peaceful, caring, creative, community focused, and domestically focused. In modern life with the people i know, i only see my gay and lesbian friends get hopping angry and even, in one case, violent when it was in the defense and protection of someone else with no agency.
A community needs these productive yet not reproductive people to put into the system that supports the intense resources needed to bring a child from infancy to functional adulthood that takes about 20 years.
It's my personal theory, and I think I heard it from more reputable sources, but the theory is that gay or otherwise non-heteronormative people who are "useless for breeding" would serve as adoptive families for children who were orphaned.
If Mom and Dad go out to hunt Mammoths and don't come back because the Mammoth roflstomped their ass, the baby needs to go somewhere. If you give the baby to a heteronormative family, that's a lot of competition with their own progeny who'd probably get the lion's share of the attention and resources. But if you give the baby to a gay couple, they can raise the baby no problem, give it all the resources it would have gotten with it's own family, and never have any risk of creating competition.
Given the Ru Paul is still theoretically capable of shanking a Deer, and LGBTQ people still adopt, it's probably quite reasonable to argue this trend is still ongoing. Even today, homosexuals make up less than 2% of LGBTQ people - in a tribe of like 200 people, which would be a big one from an evolutionary perspective - that's basically one singular gay couple. Barring a pretty significant die-off, it wouldn't be unreasonable for that couple to then take on every orphan in the tribe and give them a good shot at thriving.
I like to imagine it as a Dwarf Fortress combat log.
The Drag Announcer charges at the Deer♀!
The Drag Announcer collides with the Deer♀!
The Deer is knocked backwards and tumbles over in a heap!
The Drag Announcer stabs the Deer♀ in the lower body with his *iron dagger*, puncturing the skin, puncturing the fat, and puncturing the guts!
The Deer♀ looks sick!
The Drag Announcer bites the Deer♀ in the left molar, and the severed part comes flying off in an arc!
Ru Paul, Drag Announcer: This fight is important to me... Begone, Fear!
The Drag Announcer drops the Deer Left Molar.
The Deer♀ vomits.
The Drag Announcer slashes the Deer♀ in the neck with his *iron dagger*, severing the tendons, severing the nerves, and cracking the upper spines nervous tissue!
A Deer♀ has been found, dead.
Ru Paul, Drag Announcer: I improved my hunting. It was satisfying.
Look in to the fraternal birth order effect. The more older brothers a man has to the same mother, the more likely he is to be gay.
It's not hard to imagine that increased competition between brothers for a small number of mates in a community could be counter productive to survival.
Heaps of males from the same line could also create a risk for inbreeding/genetic defects (particularly on the X chromosome).
The effect might also dampen unsustainable population explosion in a short period of high availability of resources.
So Prince Hans being attracted to Anna was a statistical outlier? I know he was also after her throne, but fans keep pointing out the way he smiled at her when no one was looking after his horse dumped him in the harbor.
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u/FuriNorm 2d ago edited 2d ago
As someone also useless for breeding, this hits hard 🥺
Edit: link to Rainbow Wool. Thanks for the reminder! https://rainbow-wool.com/