Mark Simpson feels the gay bumps and lumps that betray the ‘gay brain’ Everyone loves Spotting The Gay. It’s a fun game the whole family can play. Scientists seem to love it too. There have been a number of studies in the last decade or so that claim to demonstrate… Read More »Gayspotting, ‘Gaydar’ & the Gaga Doctrine
My friend Michelle, formerly the male stripper known as ‘Stud-U-Like’, alerted me to this ‘freaky’ tale of transformation reported in this week’s freaky Daily Mail with this priceless headline: ‘Burly rugby player has a stroke after freak gym accident… wakes up gay and becomes a hairdresser‘ It then teases us with a… Read More »Traditional Masculinity Has a Stroke – ‘Burly Rugby Player’ Transforms Into ‘Gay Hairdresser’
by Mark Simpson (Guardian CIF, Sunday January 6, 2008) It’s official. The scientists have finally proved it. Gay men are as bad as women. Or as the Daily Mail puts it in a somewhat unnecessarily long headline: “Gay men are as bad at navigating as women“. The Daily Telegraph headline… Read More »Gay Men As Bad As Women (But Not As Bad As Psychobiology)
“Brains! Give me gay brains!” So the global media has been moaning this week, arms outstretched and flailing, sightless eyes staring fixedly ahead. You can hardly have missed this story. We’ve been here several times before, most recently with the story about ‘gay drivers being as bad as women’, but… Read More »The Zombie Media’s Hunger for Gay Brains