Homophobe are really closeted gays study says

[natina]

Homo Say What? Are homophobes secretly gay?

Are homophobes secretly gay? A new study purports to prove it.


Why have some of the nation's most vehement anti-gay activists—Ted Haggard, Larry Craig—had gay sex scandals of their own? An op-ed in the New York Times' Sunday Review section tries to explain. The authors of the piece, two research psychologists, say they have "empirical evidence that homophobia can result, at least in part, from the suppression of same-sex desire." Their argument—summed up in the Times headline as "Homophobic? Maybe You're Gay"—promises to resolve a long-running debate in the field. For at least 15 years, scientists have been trying to use objective laboratory measures to prove the he-who-smelt-it-dealt-it theory of human sexuality. Has a research team based at the University of Rochester finally done it?
The new study works like an elaborate game of "homo say what?": Evidence of private, homosexual urges is elicited by subtle verbal cues. The researchers start by asking college freshmen, mostly women, to rate their sexual orientation on a scale from 1 to 10 (1 means completely straight; 5 means bisexual; 10 means totally gay) and then to say how much they agree with politically charged statements like, "Gay people make me nervous" and "I would feel uncomfortable having a gay roommate." Once the students have been characterized according to their relative degrees of gayness and homophobia, they're shown a series of icons or photos of wedding-cake figurines on a computer monitor—two women, two men, or a man with a woman—and told to label each one as being "gay" or "straight." In a final twist, some of the "gay" and "straight" images are preceded on the screen by a subliminal verbal cue—a word flashed quickly on the screen that reads either me or others. If seeing the word me shortens a student's reaction time for the gay-themed imagery, it's taken as a sign of her implicit homosexuality. On a subconscious level, at least, she's associating the word me with gayness.


Many researchers have used setups like this one—known as an "Implicit Association Test - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"—to dig up evidence of covert inclinations or even racial prejudice. The idea is that it takes people less time to make connections between words or images when those connections conform to prior beliefs. A person might respond more quickly to the word blue if she'd been cued with the word sky, or—more disturbing—she might be faster on the word man after being cued with the word president. The Rochester team adapted this idea for their measure of sexuality: A student's secret gay identity could be revealed by testing whether she responded more quickly to me-cued gay pictures than to me-cued straight ones

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[Willie Escalade]

We knew this already...

[JohnnyVee]

Homo Say What? Are homophobes secretly gay?

Are homophobes secretly gay? A new study purports to prove it.

...and in other breaking news, Elton John is gay.

[noble1337]

1 was posted on reddit a week ago (wonder if anyone here uses that)
2 not all homophobes have same sex urges
3 not really news... just confirmation of what we already knew -_o

[giovanni_hotel]

I used to date a girl who said I was a 'homophobe' because I said it was GROSS whenever I saw two guys kissing.

Some homophobes are in the closet, but not all. Or even most. Most hetero men find gay dudes to be foreign in way they feel they can't relate.

It's takes a while for most guys to realize that someone can still be stereotypically a MAN and also gay.

It took me a while to learn this at the gym and having met some ex-military guys who were gun-loving meatheads AND into other dudes.

[irvin66]

...and in other breaking news, Elton John is gay.

Oh no and I thought he was straight as a crowbar.

[Nicole Dupre]

Fascinating.

[buckjohnson]

I would not put much thought into this study. It was way too much generic. But I know a few cats who despise gays and they would never tranny chase or think about having a dick up their ass or in their mouth.

[jimbo1974]

Sounds like a load of bollocks to me........

[Merkurie]

I would not put much thought into this study. It was way too much generic. But I know a few cats who despise gays and they would never tranny chase or think about having a dick up their ass or in their mouth.

They just don't think about it when the time cums. Or they don't tell you about it.

The only person's sex life you every really know is your own.