Current Events > how accurate are you with telling if people are non-heterosexual?

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mine is p bad unless its obvious

im generally an oblivious guy
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am i
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People who I assume are gay because of their voice and demeanor end up turning out to be straight.

Unless they have a gay pride shirt on, are talking about their same sex partner, or something like that then it's stupid to think you can accurately tell who is what sexuality
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they pretty much have to tell me or I'll have to see them do something homosexual, like having them kiss someone from the same gender on the lips or something
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My gaydar is fucking awful.

I barely recognise girls hitting on me unless they make some super obvious move like telling me outright.
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Usually, regardless of how they act in social situations, I'll still assume they're straight. There's a lot of straight guys out there that trigger superficial gaydar readings, so I never make assumptions based on just that. I assume straight until proven not, in those cases.
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Haven't been wrong yet.
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SlashmanSG posted...

Haven't been wrong yet.

"I have selective memory"
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Kaname_Madoka posted...

am i

nah but i do think you're sexually repressed hentai lover

chill02 posted...

they pretty much have to tell me or I'll have to see them do something homosexual, like having them kiss someone from the same gender on the lips or something

same as me

i think it's because i don't really judge people in how masculine or feminine they are, as well as taking their sex into account. it's not something i particular care about

Funkydog posted...

My gaydar is fucking awful.

I barely recognise girls hitting on me unless they make some super obvious move like telling me outright.

Asherlee10 posted...

Pretty good, I think. More with women, than with men.

i'm terrible working out women

what's your secret ash?
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Funkydog posted...

My gaydar is fucking awful.

I barely recognise girls hitting on me unless they make some super obvious move like telling me outright.

this but also throw guys in there

I wouldn't have a girlfriend right now if she didn't tell me outright that she wanted to date
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Eevee-Trainer posted...

Funkydog posted...

My gaydar is fucking awful.

I barely recognise girls hitting on me unless they make some super obvious move like telling me outright.

this but also throw guys in there

I wouldn't have a girlfriend right now if she didn't tell me outright that she wanted to date

Just as bad with men as well. I'm oblivious to everything
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Is this gaydar stuff based off stereotypes of how a non-heterosexual act?

Does this mean the opposite...heterosexuals act a certain way?
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Parappa09 posted...

nah but i do think you're sexually repressed hentai lover

congrats on proving that your gaydar is fucked

im bi fam
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Kaname_Madoka posted...

Parappa09 posted...

nah but i do think you're sexually repressed hentai lover

congrats on proving that your gaydar is fucked

im bi fam

ayy
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Asherlee10 posted...

Parappa09 posted...

i'm terrible working out women

what's your secret ash?

Oh, I don't know. It's a combination of mannerisms, demeanor, and how they interact with other women.

But, that doesn't account for all the women that give off zero gay vibes. My wife is like that. I would have never guess if she didn't hit on me first.

See. I do that and they turn out to be straight.

Or being 'polite' and turning me down I guess
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Kaname_Madoka posted...

congrats on proving that your gaydar is fucked

im bi fam

you're doing this to spite me

prove it

FreezerDoor posted...

Is this gaydar stuff based off stereotypes of how a non-heterosexual act?

Does this mean the opposite...heterosexuals act a certain way?

yeah kinda

if someone is being vague with who they are dating, or say 'partner' a lot, then i assume they could be non-hetero. but that's only like 10%. there's other things they could do which would make me add on more % and i'd judge in that way

but then i live in a huge liberal city so i know judging like that doesn't always work

Funkydog posted...

Or being 'polite' and turning me down I guess

lol at turning down funkydog
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Parappa09 posted...

lol at turning down funkydog

I know, right?! Don't know what they are missing
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I can usually tell with lesbians. Not the way they dress or their hair or anything. I think I've just known enough that I have a sense for it pretty quickly in conversation.

Gay dudes are a mystery though. I can never tell unless they're really loud and proud. In fairness though, a lot of my dude friends who are gay don't act gay. Like the stereotypical stuff. I think most of them wouldn't get pegged as gay by your average person without being directly told.
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With lesbians it is a lot more obvious because women have a lot more style choices than men do.

Gay dudes and straight dudes don't groom and dress that differently.

Lesbians have like a million crazy things they can do to signal.

Almost all women that are attempting to attract men are gonna follow the same standard grooming and styling techniques, because those are the things that men like. So if they're not adhering to that standard, they either don't give a shit, or they're a lesbian.
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I'm okay at picking out gay dudes. I've been surprised a few times, but I've got more hits than misses so far

Chicks, I don't even know. Unless the style is overwhelmingly butch, I probably won't see it. And even then, it's no guarantee
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I pretty much assume everyone is heterosexual until proven or told otherwise.

Though one homosexual man has complimented/ask me out. I don't know if he thought I was some homosexual stereotype because I was in Bed Bath & Beyond or just taking a wild stab.
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fenderbender321 posted...

This one time I went into a bathroom at a bar, and this guy came in and blocked the door so I couldn't leave, and then tried to shove his hand down my pants. I figured that he was more than likely a homosexual, but you just never know.

Big Ben must have gone in the men's room by mistake that time
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Parappa09 posted...

you're doing this to spite me

prove it

i actually am though

i do prefer girls though.

but if i am in fact trans then well
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I used to be terrible at this but I've got it down to an art now. I'm much better at reading body language and it's amazing what you can tell about a person from that, whether they realise it or not.
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Older transsexuals are the best at reading gay guys imo. They seem to have a 6th sense about it. Its not about masculinity or femininity, just about eye contact and body language signs. They can be covered up pretty well though if youre really conscious of it, at least for a limited time. You shouldnt feel bad if you get asked out as a straight guy though - some of that can just be projection and taking a chance, since its pretty accepted now. Honestly dont even consider it valid to read lesbians considering some of the stuff Ive read about female sexual fluidity.
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Im always on point! Although, I completely missed noticing one of my coworkers was gay till we all went out for drinks and he was checkin out dudes. I was slow on that one.
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TheJBD posted...

I think most of them wouldn't get pegged

I think they would.
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Kaname_Madoka posted...

Parappa09 posted...

you're doing this to spite me

prove it

i actually am though

i do prefer girls though.

but if i am in fact trans then well

yeah thatd be a different kettle of fish
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I'm normally right when I guess dude's are gay. But there's been a few people I didn't know where gay who I later found out. People have always thought I was gay though
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Key posted...

People have always thought I was gay though

how come? i couldnt tell with you
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Parappa09 posted...

Key posted...

People have always thought I was gay though

how come? i couldnt tell with you

Idk I've just been told it pretty much my whole life. It's probably just certain mannerisms I have that don't come across over the internet but people notice them in person. But as early as middle school I remember people asking me if I was gay all the time. And in high school I had a lot of female friends and people always thought I was the gay best friend. Even in basic I got asked it a lot and my roommate said he thought I was gay ever since he met me. idk *shrugs*

But man it seems like everyone else knew before I did
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My gaydar is on point when it comes to guys, chicks not so much (unless it's obvious).
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Depends if they act normal or act like a stereotype.
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Key posted...

Parappa09 posted...

Key posted...

People have always thought I was gay though

how come? i couldnt tell with you

Idk I've just been told it pretty much my whole life. It's probably just certain mannerisms I have that don't come across over the internet but people notice them in person. But as early as middle school I remember people asking me if I was gay all the time. And in high school I had a lot of female friends and people always thought I was the gay best friend. Even in basic I got asked it a lot and my roommate said he thought I was gay ever since he met me. idk *shrugs*

But man it seems like everyone else knew before I did

thats really interesting. i wonder what gave it away

i know with me, some people asked me because i rarely spoke about girls
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my gaydar is basically assumes every hot guy is gay

i've been wrong 100% of the time so far. but one of them was bi
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I rarely speak about girls too tbh. But I think that's just because I'm not very open when it comes to that. I remember people being like "Yo this girls is so hot right?" and I just be like "yeah shes alright" and change the subject or just let them talk about her. idk I was p shy about that withb everyone except close friends
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Choco posted...

my gaydar is basically assumes every hot guy is gay

i've been wrong 100% of the time so far. but one of them was bi

to be fair when i was in germany it was really hard to tell. hot guys over there can act very metrosexual, and they groom themselves well. yet they turn out to be straight. its a total cock tease

Key posted...

I rarely speak about girls too tbh. But I think that's just because I'm not very open when it comes to that. I remember people being like "Yo this girls is so hot right?" and I just be like "yeah shes alright" and change the subject or just let them talk about her. idk I was p shy about that withb everyone except close friends

have you told many people irl that youre not straight?
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a grand total of 0 >_>

telling CE is as far as I've gotten. I figure oncve I graduate AIT and have more freedom to go out whichever friends I hang out with then will know and I'll work from there <_<
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Key posted...

a grand total of 0 >_>

telling CE is as far as I've gotten. I figure oncve I graduate AIT and have more freedom to go out whichever friends I hang out with then will know and I'll work from there <_<

when you graduating?
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there is actually a program or something which detects homosexuals quite accurately especially for males.

kinda obvious in most cases,
tend to have larger noses, dress differently, hand movements, different colors of clothes sometimes, etc,
more likely to be very quiet or very flambouyant.
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Artificial intelligence

In 2017, researchers have claimed that an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm could correctly identify sexual orientation in 91% of the tested cases for men and 83% with women, just by reviewing a handful of photos of online dating profiles.[32] In early 2018, other researchers, among which two specialists of AI working at Google (one of the two on face recognition), issued a reportedly contradicting study based on a survey of 8,000 Americans using Amazons Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing platform. The survey yielded many traits helping to discriminate between gay and straight respondents with a series of yes/no questions. These traits had actually less to do with morphology than with grooming, presentation, and lifestyle (makeup, facial hair, glasses, selfie angle, etc.)[33]

thats from wikipedia.
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p sure i suspected you were gay years before you came out

'ambiguously gay'

Parappa09 posted...

when you graduating?

Sometime in August <_<
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