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DO A SHORT INX FGER MAKE YOU GAY?
This is bee of today’s news reports on a new study Nature by Berkeley psychology profsor Marc Breedlove that says gay people are likelier to have x fgers that are substantially shorter than their rg fgers. Our tentative ncln: We’re all gay. Our first orr of bs is to dismiss the AP’s simplistic assertn that women’s x and rg fgers “tend to be about the same length” and, if they’re not, uld be a sign that the woman is gay.
MEN WHO WEAR RGS ON THEIR MIDDLE FGER, ARE THEY GAY?
Acrdg to Breedlove, though, homosexual women tend, as men do, to have x fgers that are much shorter than their rg fgers.
It’s also te, apparently, that a fair number of heterosexual women have the same nfiguratn; the Inquirer piece has evolutnary blogist Robert Trivers of Rutgers, who has performed siar rearch, sayg he found substantial overlap between gay and straight women on relative fger size. ) But “some gay men did appear, based on their fger lengths, to have been exposed to greater than normal levels of fetal androgens before birth, ” the prs release ntu. If there is, Breedlove says, “lls to qutn all of our cultural assumptns that gay men are feme.