Tag Archives: homosexuality

Are Vocal Homophobes Really Just Homosexuals in the Closet?

Posted on April 30, 2013 by Ryo

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. -Dr. Seuss

What is it about homophobes that make them so gay? If this questions sounds controversial to you, then you may need to hear the science behind the answer. New research is showing that there actually is a link between homophobic rhetoric and homosexual tendencies. This article is about the notion that if you’re homophobic, you might just be compensating.

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Posted in Culture, Legal Issues, Psychology, Science, Sex and Sexuality, Social Psych | Tagged America, discrimination, homosexuality, Kenya, Libya, Nigeria, prostitution | 3 Comments

Power and Rape – Part 1: Rape in the Military is a Career Killer… for the Victim

Posted on March 16, 2013 by Ryo

If you ever wanted to know just how bad “blaming the victim” can get, look no further than the U.S. military. It’s clear that blaming and shaming has gone far beyond just making someone have to live with a stigma that they completely don’t deserve – which is bad enough. Rather, the problem is a systematic denial of justice, a protection of the perpetrator, and an outright pursuit of punishing the victim. If this type of discrimination happened in the public sphere, people would be completely outraged; but what is it about this military culture that allows such behavior to go unpunished?

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Posted in Culture, Legal Issues, Medicine & Health, Psychology, Science, Sex and Sexuality | Tagged America, crime, discrimination, homosexuality, military, rape, sex, sexual harassment, stigma | 1 Comment

New Gaydar Study: Bogus Science?

Posted on May 27, 2012 by Ryo

[Important updates below!]

A brief complaint published in the Edmonton Journal caught my attention when it claimed to have spotted some bogus science. [The article in the Edmonton Journal has since been taken down.] A psychology paper out of Washington University and Cornell University was published on May 17th, saying that the colloquially-famous “gaydar” may in fact be real. That is, an innate tendency for people to know whether or not someone is gay. Some people say you can tell by the way they walk, others say you’ll know by the way they talk, but this paper said that even a simple glance at a picture is enough to detect sexual orientation. Is this true?

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Posted in Psychology, Science, Sex and Sexuality, TED | Tagged homosexuality | 6 Comments

Skeptikai Notices (Sep11) – 9/11, Hackers, Psychology, and more

Posted on September 11, 2011 by Ryo

9/11:

The international news media has been writing extensively about 9/11, because of the 10-year anniversary of the incident. I couldn’t possibly reproduce all of the articles about it, but here are some of the pieces that stood out for me…

Internet archive shows Sept. 11 coverage – A website has gathered international news broadcasts on the 9/11 attacks, totaling over 3,000 hours of television. This is useful for researchers, and it’s interesting to compare the news from different perspectives, from America, to the UK, to Japan, etc.

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