Interesting Links for 21-02-2025

[andrewducker]

1. Placebo's Brian Molko Charged with Defamation of Italian Prime Minister (For pointing out that she's a fascist)

(tags:italy fascism )

2. 23% of the US population are LGBT

(tags:LGBT USA )

3. Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn't illegal without proof of seeding

(tags:copyright Facebook intellectual_property books bittorrent )

4. New Avatar Last Airbender Show 'Seven Havens' Ordered, Set After Korra

(tags:tv avatar GoodNews )

5. Why People Read Wikipedia Pages for Horror Movies (this is me!)

(tags:Wikipedia horror movies psychology viaSwampers )

6. Romantic relationships are more important for men than for women

(tags:relationships gender men )

Comments

[sobriquet9]

Look at a metastudy instead of just one source: Those with predominantly same-sex attractions comprise fewer than 5% of respondents in most Western surveys. Data from non-Western cultures are consistent with this conclusion. [...] self-reported Kinsey Scale scores can sometimes be inaccurate or incomplete.

[andrewducker]

That's predominantly same sex. I can totally believe that's lower. The majority of LGBT people are almost certainly bi.

[bens_dad]

There was a time when the LG denied the existence of the B (iirc brain scans have shown differences disproving this).
Possibly at a similar time, there were pinks who denied that *anyone* was 100% straight, to which I claim in that case no-one is 100% homo either.
Is it possible that people differ in their T-dar, so there is no definitive labelling of a particular coupling as gay or straight ?

Headlines are designed to be click-bait, so we should expect them to use unexpected definitions to provoke.

[andrewducker]

Oh yeah. And I'm totally up for better LGBT figures.

It just seems unlikely that people are lying about being bi.

[andrewducker]

Thank you, by the way. That was absolutely fascinating. I shall see what other data is out there!

[andrewducker]

This Wikipedia page is fascinating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_sexual_orientation

And the only result which I think you can reasonably pull from it is "Getting accurate information on sexual attraction is really hard and varies dramatically based on numerous factors."