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Well, you probably already knew that. Good to know that there have been grants for multiple studies to confirm this.

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=something-queer-about-that-face

Again, the authors superimposed these male faces (this time 80 gay and 80 straight) onto a white background. They then photoshopped off the participants' hairstyles, this time truly leaving only the faces as a source of information about sexual orientation. And even with these more stringent controls, the participants were able to identify the gay faces at levels greater than chance—again even on those trials where the faces were flickered on the screen for a mere 50 milliseconds.

Furthermore, in an even more rigorously controlled series of experiments published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Rule and his colleagues replicated their discovery that people are able to accurately guess male sexual orientation. This time, the researchers demonstrated that perceivers were able to do this even when they were shown only individual features of the target's face. For example, when shown only the eye region ("without brows and cropped to the outer canthi so that not even "crow's-feet" were visible"), perceivers were amazingly still able to accurately identify a man as being gay. The same happened when shown the mouth region alone.

Is there, as one study suggests, some evolutionary advantage to knowing almost instantly when a man is gay? Speculate.

Cool.

What about Bi-Dar?

What about Bi-Dar?Hmmm.
Should i be speculating?

What about Bi-Dar?

Apply for a grant - they're giving out grants for completely ridiculous shit these days.

Apply for a grant - they're giving out grants for completely ridiculous shit these days.I'm definitely speculating now.
Although, i don't really need to.
What do you think, Whispering Legs? Is it legit? Has anyone brought that up with you?

Apply for a grant - they're giving out grants for completely ridiculous shit these days.

This is only ridiculous if the only thing they wanted to find out was whether a somebody can pick out the gay guy. Seems there is a bit more to the study than that.

How about terrorist-dar? Something useful, mayhap?

How about terrorist-dar? Something useful, mayhap?

Well we don't really need that, if the person is brown then they're TERRORIST! :P

What about Bi-Dar?
Bisexuals don't exist as a sexual orientation. You can either be gay, straight, a closet gay socially pressured to fuck women, or just fuck everything that moves.

How about terrorist-dar? Something useful, mayhap?

Not useful enough. I'm only really interested in a people-wanting-to-give-me-all-the-money-they-got-dar.

If you want people to give you the money, apply for a grant...

Bisexuals don't exist as a sexual orientation. You can either be gay, straight, a closet gay socially pressured to fuck women, or just fuck everything that moves.

I take it you're a self-loathing bisexual then? Considering there's no other way for your unfounded opinion to be even remotely valid.

http://nymag.com/news/features/33520/

Bisexuals don't exist as a sexual orientation. You can either be gay, straight, a closet gay socially pressured to fuck women, or just fuck everything that moves.

I have to assume that you're trolling. The moronic bias you've expressed is simply too heinous, and you haven't seemed quite the type, unless I've missed something.

The thing I find interesting about all this is that this study and its results flies in the face of people who keep claiming that being gay is a lifestyle, or can be cured.
If it's obvious to people form just parts of your face alone, it's a lot deeper than that.

Maybe there's an evolutionary advantage to knowing when someone isn't gay so you can kill him and take his women. ;)

Maybe there's an evolutionary advantage to knowing when someone isn't gay so you can kill him and take his women. ;)

My feeling is that if this is evolutionary in nature (there's no reason why it can't be a product of picking up on cultural cues - humans are social animals with highly developed communication abilities) then the reason will be analogous to breeders choosing their female mates. It's simply the "you are healthy, we will sex" instinct, redirected.

This "discovery" would at least explain these strange "I'm sure that man is gay" moments when seeing someone for the first time, even if he doesn't have any clearly visible gay features or behaviour.

http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee273/dandevries/SafeRedirect-8.jpg

Is there, as one study suggests, some evolutionary advantage to knowing almost instantly when a man is gay? Speculate.

I suppose it could act as a signal to women not to bother trying to attract this person as a mate. If you can target straight men exclusively, your chances of reproductive success rise. I'm no scientist, though.

Bisexuals don't exist as a sexual orientation. You can either be gay, straight, a closet gay socially pressured to fuck women, or just fuck everything that moves.

Hmm. This may come as news to a lot of bisexuals.

Bisexuals don't exist as a sexual orientation. You can either be gay, straight, a closet gay socially pressured to fuck women, or just fuck everything that moves.

you heard it here first, folks.
...sexual orientation is a black-and-white issue. with biased and defined options to choose from. methinks it may not be so simple..

What about Bi-Dar?

Thats easy. Any skanky sorority girl who wants male attention is 'bi'.

Thats easy. Any skanky sorority girl who wants male attention is 'bi'.
I try not to hate those girls.


I'm a failure.

I try not to hate those girls.


I'm a failure.

Hey, youre a better person then me for at least trying not to hate them.

Hmm. This may come as news to a lot of bisexuals.
Everything comes as news to them. Bisexuals are gays whose gaydar has broken down, so they drift blindly in the ocean.

My gaydar seems to be broken. I'm always attracted to straight boys and think I might have a chance only to find out otherwise.

Lost the radio? Gaydar broken down? Don't know where to go?

Contact Westboro Navigation Services - your trusty pilot in the sexual ocean!

What about Bi-Dar?

That is covered by Gaydar too.

Also, its the twinkle in the eyes aka "the twink twinkle" that is usally key. Per example see: Striaght haired Jonas Brother.

Apply for a grant - they're giving out grants for completely ridiculous shit these days.

Maybe I should undertake a study to gauge the potential for ridicule and shit in grants.

Perhaps I could make two separate studies, one gauging the shittiness and another the ridiculousness. Then a third that attempts to discern the relationship between the shittiness and the ridiculousness of those studies.

I'm prepared to postulate that the the relationship between shitiness and ridiculousness is parabolic. i.e. the shittier the study, the greater the initial potential for ridicule until it approaches the credulity limit, then as shittiness approaches infinity, ridiculousness approaches zero.

or just fuck everything that moves.

You say that like its a bad thing ;) lol...


But, Idk, Id have to try out the method of study myself to see exactly whether I believe its true or not...