Wuerker On Civil Rights Martyr* Kim Davis

* Well in her head no doubt.

You Don't Say

Homophobic attitudes are more likely to found in individuals who harbour unacknowledged attraction towards the same sex, a series of psychology studies have found.

The study, which analysed four separate experiments conducted in the US and Germany, provides empirical evidence to suggest that homophobia is in fact the ‘external manifestation of repressed sexual desires they feel towards their own gender’, reports IBT.

“Individuals who identify as straight but in psychological tests show a strong attraction to the same sex may be threatened by gays and lesbians because homosexuals remind them of similar, unrealised desires they themselves harbour,” Netta Weinstein, a lecturer at the University of Essex and the study’s lead author, explained.

The sexual orientation of participants was measured by how they reacted to words and images with sexual connotations, during a timed task.

“In many cases these are people who are at war with themselves and they are turning this internal conflict outward,” added co-author Richard Ryan, professor of psychology at the University of Rochester who was involved in the study, in which about 650 university students participated.

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The researchers also said that this may why some homophobic public figures have often caught engaging in homosexual acts.

Huh.  Odd that other political, and especially, partisan dimensions in this context get no mention at all, huh ?

* For the record, I'm not sure if that picture they used is of the particularly brutal dictator I suspect it is meant to be of, and, I'm not expressing any particular opinion of said brutal dictator, if so...

This Will Catch on any Moment Now

So, if you haven't seen, United Russia* has developed what the media is characterising as a counter to the 'gay-pride' rainbow-flag.  The design of which being stolenborrowed from a French group opposed to same-sex marriage, La Manif Pour Tous, except that the Russian version has one extra child, which is supposedly symbolic of traditional Russian values.

I had thought that the three kids was a little optimistic for ya know...Russia, but checking the stats., turns out Putin has instituted various bribes to would-be mothers that have helped bring the birthrate up now to a rate of 1.7 children, which is apparently better than other European countries.  Who knew ?

Not sure at what event the flag of the French group is flying, but it looks ever so slightly better attended that the Russian event, which I gather from Russian sources, was expected to attract more than a thousand families.  Perhaps would-be supporters were put off by the fact that they found the flag just a little bit 'gay' for their liking...

But, still, I'm sure it'll take off on the internet and go viral any moment now...

The slogan on Putin's ruling party's anti-gay flag is "#realfamily": #настоящаясемья Here are some improved versions. pic.twitter.com/afCBhlj0wW

— Ystri Ya (@ystriya) July 10, 2015

All families where love rules are #realfamilies #настоящаясемья pic.twitter.com/78idnNMKtm

— 茶色猫 (@biglittlecat) July 9, 2015

Love you internets #настоящаясемья via @dim_stoff pic.twitter.com/9W3O1y1shu

— Laura (@LauraHuu) July 9, 2015

Oh dear.


* IE, the one party of the increasingly one-party state.  IE, the party that Putin represents.