Some People Really Might Have 'Gaydar'

[TickTockMan]

WEDNESDAY, May 16 (HealthDay News) -- Some people actually may have "gaydar," a widely used slang term for the ability to assess quickly another person's sexual orientation, a new study suggests.

http://news.yahoo.com/people-really-might-gaydar-211006742.html

Tabak said the findings challenge the theory that if people kept their sexual orientation to themselves then discrimination against gays, lesbians and bisexuals would not exist. This type of argument is made by people who oppose anti-discrimination policies for these groups, the release noted.

I thought this was interesting.

 

[AlmondMilk]

Am I crazy or is nothing showing -.-

 

[lambdaboy]

Well I know I have and my partner. An interesting thing i I know the person who first coined the word in 1977. This guy said it at a gay rights organization meeting in NY and it was mentioned as a joke in an article ina magazine at the time called Christopher Street. So I met the guy who first used it grin

 

[evanrick]

this study makes absolutely no sense, if you can tell who is straight and who is gay by looking at them ,then the study has to be wrong, because where does bisexual fit in?

 

[gsdx]

The problem I have with this is the use of photos. When I flip on my gaydar, I watch a living man. I watch the way he moves. I listen to the way he speaks. I watch where he looks. I watch who he looks at.

I believe that some people do have gaydar, and I believe it works, but I also believe that a static face offers far-too-little information for someone to determine sexuality.

Oh, and that bit about turning the faces upside-down is ridiculous. Even a baby can't recognise his own mother if her face is upside down.

 

[streetblackcock99]

My gaydar is pretty spot on nieces, but in our current days, with all this metrosetuality and whatnot, so forth and so on, it's difficul.

 

[refujiunderground]

i don't know to be real with you because i've actually felt like there were some gay dudes that i've been around that just KNEW that i was gay without me having to say shit. i've NEVER met these guys in my life before. let me give you an example: the summer of last year, i was heading back and forth to new york a lot on the subway and the path. there would be gay people that would just happen to sit across me or be near me. at the time, i would get very uncomfortable around gay people because i was homophobic and was afraid that their gaydars would go off since i was in denial and deeply closeted. when i would talk to my homeboy or just sit there on the train, i would notice how they would notice me as if they just knew what i was going through. i'll never forget this one time where i was on the path last year around this time heading home and this young gay guy who was with his mom straight up stared me down across the train. he looked me dead in the eye. i made eye contact with him a few times wondering why he was looking at me like that for. i guess he must have picked up something because he was laughing with his mom, holding her hand and trying to get her to get off at the next stop when they were about to get off the train. i think he was happy as hell that his gaydar was working. i also had other experiences on the subway as well with another guy who got really comfortable to the point where it seemed like he was going to start flirting with me and an older dude eyed me up to like "i know you're gay". that experience made me scared as shit because a secret isn't so much a secret when other people happen to know just by looking at you. i think most people would look at me as a straight guy because that's the way i carry myself but i guess i'm wrong.

 

[Scealle]

I wish my Gaydar works. I often misidentify the cute ones as the gay ones. But usually the noticeable ones are those that hold hands. I rarely saw them though and usually glares a little longer when I actually saw a couple.

 

[Scealle]

Haha, funny.

I can recall 2 instances where I "turned" a straight guy. The first was a friend of a friend who was visiting her. The guy had a girl friend. After a few drinks, I jumped him. He didn't resist so I went further. The rest was history. The next day we parted ways. I found out later that he broke up with his girl friend when he got back to his home town and started dating a guy there. The last time I met him he was happily married and living with the same guy he started dating right after his encounter with me.

The second guy I also met through a mutual friend. This guy was dating a girl at the time. This was when I was still going from guy to guy and was pretty much sleeping with anything that was still breathing and warm. Well, apparently word got around or something and this guy started pursuing me after he and his girl friend broke up. He even started spamming my text inbox with words like "can I see you some time?", "I really like you", and "I don't mind that you see other guys". He also told our mutual friends to tell me that he wanted us to date. And yeah, he's also told me this in person. Keep in mind that I haven't even touched the guy. Well, the fervor died down when I started dating my boy friend. Why did I keep resisting what was essentially food on a silver platter? Because my gaydar kept telling me this was a confused straight guy, and I didn't want to be the one popping his cherry (if that makes any sense).

The point is there are a lot of gay guys out there confused and just need someone to hold their hands and show them the world. Human sexuality is a complicated thing.

I wish I was as brave as you. There was this senior in my college that I totally have the hots for back when I just started my 2nd year of college. He's really cute and I told a lot of my friends that if he's gay I would totally go after him. I only found out that he was bi/gay/likes guys a year later. By then he has already graduated. There is also another popular gay student in another art course. He's cute too but I really don't know how to approach him or talk to him.

 

[txjunior]

Gaydar Being Real

Gaydar Is Real

Well, it seems that the University of Washington and Cornell are studying the potential physical aspects of gaydar detection. Apparently, based upon the process of configural processing, exploring the relationships between certain distinctive features, college students were supposedly identifying gays versus straights based upon quick looks at facebook profile pics with the hair cropped out. It seems that lesbians were easier to identify than gay men, something that certainly goes against my personal life experiences where I couldn't deduce that over half of my lady friends were.

So, what do you think? Is gaydar real, or just a popular myth? Is there any objective way to distinguish people? If there is, what is it? And should we even know? Or is this just another attempt at gathering gay support with various current event stories going in the mainstream atmosphere?

As a comedic break, I certainly would like to know myself. That way, I'd be able to attempt cruising at public places. Those are stories I, unfortunately, do not have under my belt.

 

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[Kabluey]

I have my very own divining rod for this.

 

[Taz]

I wish I had one -_-. Can I borrow your, erm, rod Kab?

 

[Kabluey]

Nah, you'll just set it off.

 

[Taz]

Nah, you'll just set it off.

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[Kabluey]

Twang! Fucking thing...

 

[geloge]

Some people really might have gaydar, sadly, for me, it's not my case.

 

[DigitalFudge]

 

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[dangerguy]

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Hm. Interesting.

I'd like to see more studies done on "gaydar." I honestly don't think it's anything more than applying stereotypes and reading body language but I am open to different ideas on the subject.

I agree with this. I've never really bought the whole 'gaydar' thing as a legit... well, thing. I'd add 'wishful thinking' to your little list there, lol.