During the 80’s and
90’s, it’s easy to identify that a person is admitted to himself that he
is gay; just by the way he dress, the way he walks or the way he talks
you will already be able to know if he’s “confirmed” or not.
Today, most of the gaymen choose to be more straight-looking, some enroll in modelling classes to learn the proper way of walking and some we’re just very straight even in the way they talk, sit or react on things. Making the famous slogan by women before that says, “kapag naghanap ka ng lalaki, siguruhin mong gwapo” into “kapag naghanap ka ng gwapo, siguruhin mong lalaki”.
Nowadays, differentiating gays from straight men just by looking at them is very difficult, but not everyone is decieved, some people have this somekind of ability called “gaydar” that helps them identify who’s gay and who’s not.
Gaydar is a combination of two words, gay and radar and refers to the intuitive ability of a person to assess others' sexual orientations as homosexual, bisexual, or heterosexual. Gaydar relies almost exclusively on non-verbal clues and LGBT stereotypes. These include the sensitivity to social behaviors and mannerisms; for instance, acknowledging flamboyant body language, overtly rejecting traditional gender roles, a person's occupation and grooming habits.
The detection of sexual orientation by outward appearance or behavior is frequently challenged by situations with gay men who do not act in a stereotypically "gay" fashion, or with metro-sexual men who exhibit a lifestyle, spending habits, and concern for personal appearance stereotypical of fashionable urban gays. For those who are said to have stronger gaydars, they no longer have difficulty in knowing who’s gay even if he looks so straight.
A number of scientific studies have been conducted to test whether gaydar is real or just a popular myth. Perhaps the earliest study asked people to judge sexual orientation from video clips and concluded that it was not. A later and more rigorous study published in a prestigious psychology journal showed that people could accurately judge sexual orientation. This study asked people to indicate their sexual orientation using the Kinsey scale and then had others view very brief silent clips of the people talking using thin-slicing. The viewers rated their sexual orientations on the same scale and the researchers found a significant correlation between where the people said they were on the scale and where they were perceived to be on the scale. Sexual orientation was therefore perceived accurately just from nonverbal behaviors. Later studies have repeated this finding and have even shown that home videos of kids can be used to accurately judge their sexual orientation later in life.
Later studies found that gaydar was also accurate for judgments just from the face. The race, ethnicity, and nationality of neither the person making the judgment nor the person they are judging seems to make a difference when making judgments from faces. Even individual facial features such as the eyes give enough information to tell whether a man or woman is gay, straight, or lesbian. One study showed that judgments of men’s and women’s faces for about 1/25th of a second was enough time to tell whether they were gay, straight, or lesbian. People’s judgments were not any more accurate when they had more time to make their judgments. Follow-up work to this suggested that gaydar happens automatically when someone sees another person and that seeing someone’s face automatically activates stereotypes about gays and straights. People seem not to know that they have gaydar, though. Not surprisingly, gay men have better gaydar than straight men and women have better gaydar when they are ovulating. One study hypothesized that this might be because gay men are more attentive to details than straight men.
-Ronnie John Barrientos
Source: Biology of Behavior by David Copeland
Gaydar by Donald F. Reuter
Today, most of the gaymen choose to be more straight-looking, some enroll in modelling classes to learn the proper way of walking and some we’re just very straight even in the way they talk, sit or react on things. Making the famous slogan by women before that says, “kapag naghanap ka ng lalaki, siguruhin mong gwapo” into “kapag naghanap ka ng gwapo, siguruhin mong lalaki”.
Nowadays, differentiating gays from straight men just by looking at them is very difficult, but not everyone is decieved, some people have this somekind of ability called “gaydar” that helps them identify who’s gay and who’s not.
Gaydar is a combination of two words, gay and radar and refers to the intuitive ability of a person to assess others' sexual orientations as homosexual, bisexual, or heterosexual. Gaydar relies almost exclusively on non-verbal clues and LGBT stereotypes. These include the sensitivity to social behaviors and mannerisms; for instance, acknowledging flamboyant body language, overtly rejecting traditional gender roles, a person's occupation and grooming habits.
The detection of sexual orientation by outward appearance or behavior is frequently challenged by situations with gay men who do not act in a stereotypically "gay" fashion, or with metro-sexual men who exhibit a lifestyle, spending habits, and concern for personal appearance stereotypical of fashionable urban gays. For those who are said to have stronger gaydars, they no longer have difficulty in knowing who’s gay even if he looks so straight.
A number of scientific studies have been conducted to test whether gaydar is real or just a popular myth. Perhaps the earliest study asked people to judge sexual orientation from video clips and concluded that it was not. A later and more rigorous study published in a prestigious psychology journal showed that people could accurately judge sexual orientation. This study asked people to indicate their sexual orientation using the Kinsey scale and then had others view very brief silent clips of the people talking using thin-slicing. The viewers rated their sexual orientations on the same scale and the researchers found a significant correlation between where the people said they were on the scale and where they were perceived to be on the scale. Sexual orientation was therefore perceived accurately just from nonverbal behaviors. Later studies have repeated this finding and have even shown that home videos of kids can be used to accurately judge their sexual orientation later in life.
Later studies found that gaydar was also accurate for judgments just from the face. The race, ethnicity, and nationality of neither the person making the judgment nor the person they are judging seems to make a difference when making judgments from faces. Even individual facial features such as the eyes give enough information to tell whether a man or woman is gay, straight, or lesbian. One study showed that judgments of men’s and women’s faces for about 1/25th of a second was enough time to tell whether they were gay, straight, or lesbian. People’s judgments were not any more accurate when they had more time to make their judgments. Follow-up work to this suggested that gaydar happens automatically when someone sees another person and that seeing someone’s face automatically activates stereotypes about gays and straights. People seem not to know that they have gaydar, though. Not surprisingly, gay men have better gaydar than straight men and women have better gaydar when they are ovulating. One study hypothesized that this might be because gay men are more attentive to details than straight men.
-Ronnie John Barrientos
Source: Biology of Behavior by David Copeland
Gaydar by Donald F. Reuter
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