Niall Ferguson in the news!

[james_davis_nicoll]

Harvard Professor and author Niall Ferguson says John Maynard Keynes' economic philosophy was flawed and he didn't care about future generations because he was gay and didn't have children.

And a little while later Gay-bashing Harvard Prof makes an unqualified apology. He does not seem concerned that his previous analysis erased the category 'bisexual' to him but baby steps, baby steps.

Comments

[timgueguen.livejournal.com]

Ferguson is confusing "lacking an urge to procreate" with "not wanting to have sex with women." I'm sure there are lots of people who would be quite happy if a way could be found for them to get their same sex partner pregnant, or for a fetus combining their genetics to be gestated artificially. And of course many gay couples wish to adopt children, and presumably care about the future of those children. Conversely we can all think of people who act as if they don't care if the world ends next week, despite having children.

[redbird]

And some female-bodied people who enjoy sex with men and would be happy to procreate if they didn't have to be the one to carry the fetus.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

I'm married to a man, and the genetic mother of two children with another man entirely. Who is fathering those kids with his husband. So, opposite-sex couple, no kids; same-sex couple, two kids, just as everyone wanted.

For an educated man, Ferguson knows very little about the actual world. Bisexuality and surrogacy are hardly new concepts!

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

No, he knows about the world. He just enjoys being an asshole.