Mascule bias is prent among gay and straight men, acrdg to new rearch, and ’s havg an effect on feme men’s reers
Contents:
- A DOLL THAT WEARS SUNGLASS WH ATTU? OH, ‘M3GAN’ IS A GAY MOVIE.
- A HANDY GUI TO ALL GAY MEN
- ‘GAY GLASS CEILG’: WHY MORE FEME MEN GET PASSED OVER FOR LEARSHIP ROL
- GAY PRI SUNGLASS & EYEWEAR
A DOLL THAT WEARS SUNGLASS WH ATTU? OH, ‘M3GAN’ IS A GAY MOVIE.
The tle robot — remiscent of the loyal but msy straight women that gay men are protective of — is progrs for a genre wh a shameful history. * gay men glasses *
Whout beg aware of , most people n accurately intify gay men by face aloneAlthough I've always wanted this particular superhuman power, I've never been very good at tectg other men's sexual orientatn.
Fdgs om a recent study published the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, however, suggt I may be unrtimatg my gaydar abili. The January 2008 study vtigated people's abily to intify homosexual men om pictur of their fac alone.
In an ial experiment, rearchers Nicholas Rule and Nali Ambady om Tufts Universy pesed onle datg s and refully selected 45 straight male fac and 45 gay male fac. The 90 fac were then shown to 90 participants random orr, who were asked simply to judge the target's "probable sexual orientatn" (gay or straight) by prsg a button.
A HANDY GUI TO ALL GAY MEN
The gay world is often reprented as some sort of monolhic whole that has the same culture. That is a lie. It is actually broken down to a handful of substrata to which each gay belongs. Here they are. * gay men glasses *
Surprisgly, all participants (both men and women) sred above chance on this gaydar task, rrectly intifyg the gay fac. Then, they did a send search to fd other Facebook ers who had posted photos of the gay men their own profile.
‘GAY GLASS CEILG’: WHY MORE FEME MEN GET PASSED OVER FOR LEARSHIP ROL
* gay men glasses *
"Th, " the thors wrote, "by g photos of gay and straight dividuals that they themselv did not post, we were able to remove the fluence of self-prentatn and much of the potential selectn bias that may be prent photos om personal advertisements.
GAY PRI SUNGLASS & EYEWEAR
Aga, the thors superimposed the male fac (this time 80 gay and 80 straight) onto a whe background.
And even wh the more strgent ntrols, the participants were able to intify the gay fac at levels greater than chance—aga even on those trials where the fac were flickered on the screen for a mere 50 lisends.