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There's Something Queer about That Face
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Although I've always wanted this particular superhuman power, I've never been very fine at detecting other men's sexual orientation. Findings from a recent study published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, however, propose I may be underestimating my gaydar abilities.
The January 2008 study investigated people's ability to distinguish homosexual men from pictures of their faces alone. In an initial experiment, researchers Nicholas Command and Nalini Ambady from Tufts University perused online matchmaking app sites and carefully selected 45 linear male faces and 45 gay male faces. All of these photos were matched for orientation (only faces shown looking forward were used) and facial alterations (none of the images contained jewelry, glasses or facial hair). To control for context, the faces were also cut and pasted onto a white background for the study. These 90 faces were then shown to 90 participants in random order, who were asked simply to judge the target's "probable se
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Is is it politically incorrect to say someone looks gay?
kazuri said:
You cannot assess gay people who do not act 'gay' because you accomplish not know they are male lover. Hence idiocy.
No I am not arguing semantics. I am pro-gay marriage, etc etc, and I use the word 'gay' how he describes, and when I use it I am not thinking about homosexuals in the slightest. I am not the only person who does this.Click to expand...
Are you this suffocating to be with?
This:
,
might not be enough for some people to call gay.
but this is:
Can you see anything masculine about it?
Not all gays are feminine, true. They call it straight acting. What's straight acting? They act like straight people. Or maybe they don't desire to act, but they just so happen to like people of the same sex.
But this is missing the point.
The evidence that people can be surprised when someone reveals their sexuality, means that we have some definition of what "gay" means, and what's the behaviour typically demonstrated by, or found in identifiable gay people.
Sure, occasionally we do find men who wear what the guy in the picture above wears. But how many
Gay-face IS real: You can tell a person is homosexual just by looking at their features, declare experts
Do you think you can tell whether a person is gay or straight simply by looking at them? Well, you could be right, declare experts.
Two science educators own scoured the research behind so-called 'gay face' — the theory that homosexuals have certain facial characteristics in common.
And, according to science, it is a real thing — with some of us improved at spotting it than others.
The phenomenon was investigated Mitch Moffit, a biologist, and Greg Brown, a science teacher — who both happen to be gay — in a bid to unearth the facts.
And surprisingly, the pair discovered that 'gay-face' isn't anything to do with looking masculine or feminine.
Gay face is term used by some members of the LGBT community for being able to detect someone isn't straight simply by looking at their visage, and according to experts it's a authentic thing
Multiple studies spanning over a decade have explored the phenomenon as adv as who is finer at spotting the features that make a encounter 'gay'
Gay face has been the subject of study for over a decade.
Early studies dating back to 2011 found