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Gaydar ISN'T real: Scientists slam the phrase as ‘stereotyping’ - use could lead to aggression
Daily Mail ^ | 9/03/15 | Ellie Zolfagharifard

Posted on 09/04/2015 2:40:20 AM PDT by Libloather

Gaydar ISN'T real: Scientists slam the phrase as ‘stereotyping’ and say its use could lead to aggression

We've all heard people say they have a 'gaydar'.

It is the alleged ability to know whether someone is gay or straight based on their appearance.

The phrase Gaydar got a scientific boost from a 2008 study that concluded people could accurately guess someone's sexual orientation based on photographs of their faces.

But a new study challenges what it calls the 'the gaydar myth', saying it isn't accurate and is actually a harmful form of stereotyping.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gaydar; homosexualagenda; jenner; scientists; stereotyping
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Mine still works. Just got it calibrated.
1 posted on 09/04/2015 2:40:21 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

I know some very effeminate men who aren’t gay but 9 times out of 10 the gaydar is working fine.


2 posted on 09/04/2015 2:41:56 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: Libloather

Homosexuals claim it is legit because they say that they are not attracted to heterosexuals. So therefore anyone who perks their interest MUST be homosexual (even if they are in denial).

Adult “mentors” can spot these gay youths and seek to free them. That is why the schools let perverts have access to minors and deny any adult from trying to counsel an impressionable kid to consider heterosexual normality.


3 posted on 09/04/2015 2:44:48 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Will Bernie Sanders run as an Independent if he does not get the nomination of the Democrat Party?)
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To: Libloather

Something tells me that these scientists are gay.


4 posted on 09/04/2015 2:45:24 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Cruz is still my #1, but Trump is impressing the hell out of me.)
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To: cripplecreek

This is a classic “it’s not 100% so it doesn’t exist” liberal lie. It’s just like their “a border fence can’t stop all illegals” or “we can’t deport all illegals” or “Obamacare doesn’t hurt everybody who participates” lies.


5 posted on 09/04/2015 2:45:34 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: Libloather

“Scientists slam...”

I read that all the time in the technical papers I read...


6 posted on 09/04/2015 2:45:56 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: ClearCase_guy

Something tells me they are looking for more study money.


7 posted on 09/04/2015 2:47:24 AM PDT by Gaffer
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...saying it isn't accurate and is actually a harmful form of stereotyping.

...and yet, the first to proclaim how good their gaydar is are the gays themselves. ;>)

8 posted on 09/04/2015 2:49:29 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled-...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: Libloather

Mine works fine.

It won’t shut the hell up when I see Lindsay Graham speak.


9 posted on 09/04/2015 2:55:33 AM PDT by Crazieman (Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
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To: Libloather
Ellie Zolfagharifard????? Seriously?


10 posted on 09/04/2015 3:06:18 AM PDT by xp38
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Well here’s another group of educated idiots that don’t seem to know how a stereotype comes to be.

OF COURSE it’s ‘stereotyping morons. WTF do you think makes it ‘work’????


11 posted on 09/04/2015 3:12:29 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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Back when I was still in the Marines I returned from a 6 month MEU deployment, and my wife wanted me to meet her new friend’s husband. We met over dinner at their apartment. He was quite the stud. Blond hair, blue eyes, and muscular. A good looking Marine if their ever was one. After dinner we were driving home, and my wife asked what I thought. “He’s gay.” I told her. My wife was royally pissed off at me. Six months later this corporals wife found a video tape in his clothing drawer of him having homosexual sex with numerous other men.

My gaydar was pinpoint accurate.


12 posted on 09/04/2015 3:12:41 AM PDT by arielguard (You don't get credit for what you are supposed to do.)
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To: Libloather

Gay Scientist say...


13 posted on 09/04/2015 3:13:43 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Libloather

So if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably isn’t a duck?


14 posted on 09/04/2015 3:14:36 AM PDT by McGruff (Paid for by Hillary For Prison 2016)
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To: Libloather
You make the call.


15 posted on 09/04/2015 3:18:05 AM PDT by McGruff (Paid for by Hillary For Prison 2016)
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To: Libloather

In most cases, scientists aren’t real.


16 posted on 09/04/2015 3:18:52 AM PDT by samtheman (2014: Voters elect Repubs to congress... 2015: Repubs defund NOTHING... 2016: Trump/(Cruz or Palin))
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To: McGruff

RACIST!!!!!!


17 posted on 09/04/2015 3:19:00 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: McGruff

My Duckdar is working fine.


18 posted on 09/04/2015 3:27:58 AM PDT by xp38
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To: Libloather

“Scientists”, ha ha.


19 posted on 09/04/2015 3:28:28 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("All the time live the truth with love in your heart." ~Fr. Ho Lung)
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To: Libloather
Off the scale!


20 posted on 09/04/2015 3:29:36 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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