The Solutn to "Gay" Insults: Freedom of Speech | Psychology Today

Contents:

• WE MAY KNOW WHY YOUNGER BROTHERS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY
• ARE YOUNGER BROTHERS MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY?
• IS MY BROTHER GAY? QUIZ (BOYS ONLY)
• THE SOLUTN TO "GAY" INSULTS: FREEDOM OF SPEECH
• HOW TO TELL IF YOUR GUY FRIEND IS GAY
• HOW I WISH I REACTED WHEN I LEARNED MY BROTHER WAS GAY
• IS YOUR MAN GAY, STRAIGHT, OR BISEXUAL?
• HAVG OLR BROTHERS CREAS MEN’S LIKELIHOOD OF BEG GAY
• WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU LEARN A BROTHER/SISTER IS GAY
• HIS BROTHER IS GAY; WHAT ARE HIS RPONSIBILI TOWARDS HIM?

WE MAY KNOW WHY YOUNGER BROTHERS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY

How Olr Brothers Influence HomosexualyHomosexualy might be partly driven by a mother’s immune rponse to her male fet—which creas wh each son she MacGregor / RtersHere’s what we know: Homosexualy is normal. Between 2 and 11 percent of human adults report experiencg some homosexual feelgs, though the figure vari wily pendg on the survey.

Homosexualy exists across cultur and even throughout the animal kgdom, as the thors of a mammoth new review paper on homosexualy wre. Female Japane maqu will even pete tersexually wh mal for exclive accs to female sexual ’s what we don’t know: What, specifilly, someone to bee gay, straight, or somethg between. Part of the explanatn is geic, but bee most intil tws of gay people are straight, heredy don’t expla “why” qutn is important bee “there is a strong rrelatn between beliefs about the origs of sexual orientatn and tolerance of non-heterosexualy, ” acrdg to the report thors, who are om seven universi spanng the globe.

ARE YOUNGER BROTHERS MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY?

(When Atlantic ntributor Chandler Burr proposed his 1996 book, A Separate Creatn, that people are born gay, Southern Baptists lled to boytt Disney films and parks prott agast the publisher, Disney subsidiary Hypern.

) It shouldn’t matter whether people “choose” to be gay, but polilly, do—at least for of the most nsistent environmental explanatns for homosexualy is lled the “aternal birth orr effect. ” Essentially, the more olr brothers a man has, the more likely he is to be gay. Studi have found that a man whout olr brothers has about a 2 percent chance of beg gay, but one wh four olr brothers has a 6 percent chance.

Average prevalence 2013 (Sav-Williams and Vrangalova)Acrdg to the report, Blanchard now plans to tt mothers of gay and straight men for the prence of the antibodi. If proved out, fetal birth orr uld do a lot to fill the missg explanatns for homosexualy. But gaps will rema, such as why some firstborn sons are gay, why some intil tws of gay sons are straight, and why women are gay, to name jt a review-paper thors do le out one explanatn for homosexualy, however: That tolerance for gay people enurag more people to bee gay.

IS MY BROTHER GAY? QUIZ (BOYS ONLY)

“Homosexual orientatn do not crease equency wh social tolerance, although s exprsn ( behavr and open intifitn) may do so, ” they reasong—that a tolerant society somehow enurag homosexualy to flourish—has been ed to support anti-gay legislatn Uganda, Rsia, and elsewhere. The laws do margalize and shame gay people, the thors wre.

If you jt have a feelg that your brother is gay, that's okay.

If you thk your brother is gay bee he watch a "girly" TV show or his voice sounds a certa way, that's relyg on stereotyp. If you live a particularly homophobic or transphobic area, discs safety plans wh the fay member se of vlence om others. If your fay member has e out as gay or bisexual, accept that they will end up seeg someone of their own genr, and that's perfectly okay.

THE SOLUTN TO "GAY" INSULTS: FREEDOM OF SPEECH

Don't be aaid to rearch beg gay, bisexual, transgenr, asexual, or whatever your fay member me out as. If you saw your brother kissg another guy and he said he is not attracted to women, y, he is gay. They might have a lack of tert the oppose sex if they’re homosexual or asexual.

The more olr brothers a boy has, the more likely he is to be gay when he grows up – an effect lled the “aternal birth orr effect”.

They found that the mothers of gay sons wh olr brothers had the hight levels of antibodi agast this prote, followed by the mothers of gay sons wh no olr brothers.

HOW TO TELL IF YOUR GUY FRIEND IS GAY

“Given that the prote is known to be important synapse formatn, you n see how maternal antibodi might affect the wirg of the fetal bra, and that might expla why each subsequent son is more likely to grow up gay. “The signifince of this prelimary observatn, if n be replited, is that intifi specific molecul the bra that may be important for heterosexual as well as homosexual velopment, ” says Dean Hamer, a pneer of rearchg the blogil termants of sexual orientatn. Read more: What do the new gay gen tell about sexual orientatn?

In 1996, the psychologists Ray Blanchard and Anthony Bogaert published a paper ntendg that homosexualy was more mon men who had olr brothers.

"In [Wtern] societi, homosexual men are femized at var levels and they have more olr brothers than heterosexual men, " state the thors of the study. "To evaluate whether femy and the aternal birth orr effect are universal featur of male homosexual preference or not, we llected origal data om homosexual men, heterosexual men, and heterosexual women om Java (Indonia). The rearchers examed data om 116 homosexual men and 62 heterosexual men om wtern and central Java.

HOW I WISH I REACTED WHEN I LEARNED MY BROTHER WAS GAY

Consistent wh Blanchard and Bogaert's fdgs Wtern societi, they found that homosexual men were more likely to have olr brothers than heterosexual men. To be specific, homosexual men their sample had an average of 0.

Intertgly, the rearchers also found that homosexual men were more likely to have olr sisters, although this difference was smaller than the olr brother difference. The rearchers then tted whether homosexualy was visible the facial featur of Indonians. Usg standardized photographs of heterosexual and homosexual Indonian men, the rearchers found that men wh olr brothers were perceived to have more feme facial featur than men whout olr brothers.

They did not, however, fd that homosexual men were any more femized their facial featur than heterosexual men.

IS YOUR MAN GAY, STRAIGHT, OR BISEXUAL?

The thors wre, "Taken together, the rults suggt the prence of a femizg factor associated wh male homosexualy that is partially termed by male birth orr. Homosexualy has been a long-standg pot of nfn for evolutnary psychologists.

HAVG OLR BROTHERS CREAS MEN’S LIKELIHOOD OF BEG GAY

Male Homosexual Preference: Femy and the Olr Brother Effect Indonia. If somethg is odd about your bro, like him actg spic around other boys - or somethg else that jt seems odd - take this quiz to fd out if he might be gay.

ya she gay i been cshg on her for a long time im gog to ask her out.

Omg I'm a girl and I'm only 11 and my bro is 9 I thk he is gay and why would he watch gay ?OR??

WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU LEARN A BROTHER/SISTER IS GAY

I have a guy iend who won't adm that he's gay but I'm a girl. Bee when I put no he don't stare at me that would make him be gay ( the sense of this quiz) but the quiz would terperate as he's straight if that mak sense at all? There was a recent high profile story the news about an 11-year-old boy who mted suici, apparently bee he uld no longer tolerate beg lled “gay.

" Kids get mad when they are lled gay and they sometim get to fights. Many anti-bully activists sist that anti-bully laws should specifilly mentn sults agast gays and those of non-heterosexual orientns.

HIS BROTHER IS GAY; WHAT ARE HIS RPONSIBILI TOWARDS HIM?

If be a crime to sult people, then, is hoped, no one will be attacked wh the “gay” sult, and the associated vlence will disappear. One of the problems wh makg illegal to ll someone “gay” is that vlat the First Amendment right to Freedom of Speech.

The tth is that society has e a long way recent s toward rcg hatred and discrimatn agast gays.

However, will be a while–if ever–before anti-gay sentiment disappears pletely.