New study finds that your ‘gaydar’ is terrible [Thoughtcrime]

Washington Post ^ | 9/8/2015 | Rachel Feltman

[OldMissileer]

I’m sorry. I know it’s juvenile.

It is still very funny.

[beelzepug]

You better BELIEVE it!!

[wbill]

Not Satire.

If I was that guy, I think that I'd change my name.

[Red Badger]

It has some kind of weird design on it....................

[Uncle Miltie]

[DungeonMaster]

Don’t need gaydar for that. Trannyies purses usually don’t match their shoes so badly that one doesn’t even have to know fashion to notice it. If you want to pass yourself off as a woman, accessorize yourself.

This one was a 5'2" postal worker with no accessories and with such tiny feet and hands that I never suspected. Just really homely and a weird voice and obvious implants.

[Honorary Serb]

I thought that only “gays” had “gaydar”!

[relictele]

The article almost defies comment.

It proves nothing about me personally therefore the personalized YOUR is typical media broad-brush nonsense.

If gaydar really isn’t a thing (a linguistic formulation which I despite, incidentally) then why and how is a publicly-funded professor attempting to disprove it?

The author of study even gets the generally-accepted definition of gayday wrong. We are NOT relying on specific visual cues ie stereotypes - in fact, most of the time there is a gaydar ‘alert’ when someone LACKS such cues and often when that person takes great pains to adopt heterosexual mannerisms, speech, dress, etc. The point is that gaydar is intuition in the face of counterintuitive information.

This is why men who, for example, are cast as pop music teen idols or even as Bachelors seeking the hand of a female in marriage ie often ping gaydar.

To repeat: gaydar is NOT stereotyping - it is the ability to see beyond stereotyping.

[relictele]

despite -> despise

[relictele]

gayday -> gaydar (edit before posting, damn it!)

[ModelBreaker]

So how many people didn’t know that Ricky Martin is homosexual before he came out?

[TheRightGuy]

just wait until gaydar is improved and gays are detectable even while still in the womb ... i’m guessin’ abortion rates would rise

[rockrr]

Part and parcel of the War on Normalcy. Now that they have force-fed homersexural behavior onto our collective consciences as acceptable or even desirable, they are working to erase any stubborn reminders of the “bad old days”.

The proper response to idiocy like this is to point and snicker.

[UCANSEE2]

[Jan_Sobieski]

Very good point!

[Jan_Sobieski]

Science keeps proving that it is NOT genetic. It is an acquired behavior like any other deviancy...

[UCANSEE2]

Then how to gays find each other?

Ask Larry Craig.

[jessduntno]

How did they find Greg Louganis? Is there Gay Sonar?

I wonder how he reacts to Cox.

[ManHunter]

As Jim Quinn has said multiple times, “Stereotypes aren’t necessarily false, they’re just an indication of a group that has a problem they don’t want to deal with.”

Forgive the paraphrase, Jim...

[ManHunter]

p.s. I just published a study that finds that your study is pure equine feces.