Here’s something measured with the scientific method that we already knew — many hetties support gay rights, but think two dudes kissing in public is just wrong.
In a survey of 1,000 gay, straight and lesbian people, respondents were asked to give their reactions to a number of hypothetical scenarios involving unmarried couples of different gender breakdowns — two men, two women, and man/woman.
Should the couple be granted legal benefits like family leave, hospital visitation and inheritance rights? Should they be able to marry? What about a peck on the cheek in a public place? Frenching in a park?
70 percent of straight respondents supported gay couples’ legal benefits, and 95 percent of them though it was fine for a man and a woman to peck each other on the cheek in public.
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But when asked the same question about a gay male couple, that 95 percent support dropped to 55. When asked about two women, it jumped back up to 72 percent.
This is nothing new, really. It’s the “I don’t care what you do in your bedroom but down’t flaunt your lifestyle in my face, and certainly not in my children’s faces” set to numbers. Kind of like saying, “I’m not a racist — I had a black friend back in college.”
But to see it laid out in such stark detail is a reminder that we still have a long way to go before society truly deems us equal.
And we have our own attitude problems as well. Even among gay respondents, support for same-sex PDA dropped in comparison to the same heterosexual affection.
via Chicago Tribune
jwtraveler
I’m fine with that as long as they don’t flaunt their heterosexuality in public. It’s disgusting seeing all those straight couples making out in public.
CoachS
Gay, straight, lesbian, mixed race, inter generational – doesn’t matter to me. Holding hands or a peck on the cheek is one thing. I don’t particularly like seeing anyone really going at it in public though. It seems to me that simple manners are sometimes lost on people from all walks of life.
Trippy
A couple of yrs ago I heard Hannity say that he “didn’t care what people did, just don’t flaunt it!” He then on to explain how he doesn’t flaunt his het-ness, so we shouldn’t flaunt our homo-ness. Five minutes later he starts talking about his wife and kids. Yep… these folks are total hypocrites and liars. I’m actually surprised the percentage of support was 55%. I would have expected it to be less.
DuMaurier
The most intriguing sentence in the article is the last one. I think a poll should be conducted just breaking THAT down.
Zekester
Coach S, how many times have you seen two men “going at it” in public outside of a specifically gay event? I’ve NEVER seen two men make out in public outside of a Pride or otherwise gay event. I’ve seen lesbians holding hands many times and making out a few times but I never see gay men doing the same.
Paco
But I thought straight guys were becoming more gay and ready to replace women with us in their beds. It sucks when fantasy crumbles when exposed to reality. Doesn’t it? Back to worshipping our own I guess.
jason smeds
Note the stark difference between acceptance of girl-girl and guy-guy PDA’s. It’s about 17% in favour of girl-girl. Welcome to the new world created by liberals and their double standard.
Liberals will always favour women over men because liberalism is based on giving privileges to women. The only way that we gay/bi men can fight this is to take away women’s privileges. We need to get active before we become second-class citizens.
There’ll be no turning back if we allow women to gain privileges over us men.
jason smeds
Women exploit the PDA double standard. To me, that is outright oppression of gay and bisexual men.
Saint Law
Lol to see the impotent old shitpot behind the ‘jason’s meds’ sockpuppet try and take back the ‘privileges’women enjoy.
A six year old girl could break him like a hollow stick.
Saint Law
P.S. ‘Jim’ if you’re reading – your life will always be a sexless wasteland. And it aint women you got to blame for that. It’s your worthless ‘self’.
xx
jason smeds
Women exploit the homophobic double standard which says that guy-guy PDA’s are more offensive than girl-girl PDA’s. The survey showed it. Women exploit it because it gives them privileges over all men, including us gay and bisexual men.
Saint Law
@jason smeds: Either you believe the crap that you post – which makes you mental, or you don’t and post it anyway – which makes you a bigger mental. Either way you’re mental.
Was it loneliness that made you this way?
Desert Boy
Yes, yes, yes, because hets must be made comfortable at all times.
tdx3fan
@jason smeds: Oh, its nice to see that your usual crazy has now met an all new level. Now its all liberals to blame and women should lose privileges. Someone or something seriously warped you. Your mother must have been a real bitch. However, I’m not sure throwing her in jail (which is where your certain brand of crazy will eventually lead) because she is a woman is the answer.
tdx3fan
@Saint Law: I’m guessing his mother, grandmothers, sisters, teachers and any other women who he ever ran into were all (in his words) “power grubbing feminazis.”
I'm Black, and HIV-Positive.
Yeah, but more out of respect for those of us who don’t have anyone. Otherwise, it’s kind of insult to injury. Like no straight person ever marched so that Sam and Steve could partially make out behind the bushes on side of the soccer field where the children are spending their Saturday mornings. It’s disgraceful that low and behold gay people have no couth, and no manners in the first place. It makes you want to ask what gripe gay people had against you in the first place when they tricked you into championing their rights and causes. I didn’t most certainly didn’t march in Washington myself just so that all the pda’s could turn out to be for white men only you bunch of two faced low and behold white supremacists. Public Displays of Affection typically don’t go over well with me whether you’re gay, or straight either so why would you expect a double standard then retards?
I'm Black, and HIV-Positive.
@CoachS: I love seeing holding hands though.
I'm Black, and HIV-Positive.
@jason smeds: I agree with you 100% about women though Jason. I’m certainly not one of the brainwashed sheep like Saint Law, and his weak-bitch ass. He’s living in fear that women, and straight men will see his posts here. But we live in a “Ladies First” society, and it’s just as simple as that, and it all adds up to a horrible double-standard that is inherently set against, yet perpetrated off of the struggles of blacks, and gay men.
Simply put, you can’t complain about the double-standard, harshness that a male dominated society has placed on you while simultaneously ignoring the fact that it is exactly that same double-standard that has afforded you as a woman that platform, that soapbox to stand & harp on in the first place. That soapbox to stand, and bitch on, and drone on, and on on in the first place. I mean, no man has ever held a door open for me, and I actually will suck a man’s dick on the first date. No bullshit. Has even a gay man ever held a door open for you? I mean seriously here. It’s a vast double-standard. The only point of it is to brainwash men like Saint Law into becoming complacent sheep. It’s like trying to convince someone that the Nazi’s are wrong for killing Jews before America enters the War. Disgraceful. It’s like “Gee, I can’t wait for the Japanese to strike his Pearl Harbor with his complacent ass!”
But they’re even complaining about their gender roles in society as women, which is sheer anarchy as it would displace all men to be rebellious where a woman’s traditional gender roles are located. But the sheep like Saint Law don’t get why that’s another one of these double-standard issues either. They’re not fighting for the right of men to take a woman’s place in society, so it’s like: Why don’t you get the picture already!
Their whole thinking is: “Oh, a man does that? Then I want to do that too then.” And that is exactly called a double standard. Like a woman really cannot be a truck driver. Sorry! Not without inconveniencing all of the other men at the rest stops to help her with her own load which breaks the code of being a truck driver, but she shows up with her “ladies first” bullshit, and her “Be a man” bullshit “and help out a lady why don’t you?” BS. And it’s all bullshit, because if it were that simple than a tiny man could have, and would have done that job long time ago. Am I right, or wrong here? But a woman steps forwards to say, “I can do that. I’m a woman!”, and somehow that flies. It’s all just bullshit!
But let even a gay man be less that chivalrous towards a woman, and it’s “Oh, would you want your mother to be treated that way?”, or “Oh, didn’t you’re mother raise you better than that?” They just keep falling back on the whole mother argument, and that’s how you know they’re just trying to get away with some real bullshit.
Or how about if you’re rude to a woman, and then it’s, “Oh, what if that were your mother?” And you cave in, because she’s a woman, and the next thing you realize is, “Hey! Quite frankly my mother’s a rude, selfish, anti-male bitch!” But you caved in, because of dumb-ass sheep like Saint Law, and now you’re whole identity is compromised. And I guess that’s what I’m getting at. They are actively trying to compromise the identity of gay men through this bullshit. So it’s time women get what they deserve.
Especially if a woman dared put her hands on me. I spent a month in the hospital battling pneumonia. It took me three months to learn how to walk again after that. I qualify for handicapped parking now. Oh man. Let a woman try some of that dumb “but I’m a woman” shit with me now. The way I see it it’s a fair fight. I swear, it’s as though they truly think that we’re all secretly wanting to be dating women, and it’s infuriating as Hell. The double standards, the accusations, the shaming of male effeminacy; it’s all a bit pre-sumptuous of them.
jsmu
Yep. ‘Some of my best friends are black.’ GAWUD forbid gays should threaten the bankrupt (in every way) suburban imbecility and bigotry of middle amurriKKKa by–SHUDDER–public displays of AFFECTION!
I'm Black, and HIV-Positive.
@jsmu: Yeah. And “GAWUD” forbid the world give a fukkk about what a bunch of uber rich, self-loathing, self-centered, race haters like you think anyway! GAWUD! Is that what you call him at the church YOU go to?