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Why Lesbians Aren't Gay
Citation (APA): Sailer, S. (2014). Why Lesbians Aren't Gay [Kindle Android version]. Retrieved from Amazon.com
Parte introduttiva
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l fanno g sono sui gay media col pilota automatico: vittime o colpevoli? non interessa capire chi sono gay è termine infelice le donne: noi non siamo gay siamo arrabbiate think in term of bell shaped curve la frode del 10% mito: il dolore e sorpresa causato ai genitori dal coming out è inevitabile g/l: differenti ma difficile dire dove: in molte cose entrambi imitano l altro sesso: golf... ma in altri campi no: compositori forse bisogna distinguere l attivo dal passivo x raccapezzarsi radici biologiche: ambivalenza x l la teoria gender: presa poco sul serio dalle femministe in primo luogo che non intendono testarle seriamente gli omo e l imbarazzo delle femministe gender le riviste x incontri omo riecheggiano molti stereotipi nnostante la guerra con l altro sesso dovrebbe essere sospesa almeno lì il ruolo centrale degli omo nella moda. e non dei machi imperialisti... nn sono gli etero dominanti ma gli omo a traviare le donne verso la femminilità
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Why Lesbians Aren't Gay By Steve Sailer
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What does it say about human nature that so many enthusiasms of the average lesbian and the average gay man diverge so strikingly?
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What broader lessons about current social issues can we learn
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apparently, we'd be best off not thinking too much about this fact. Better yet, we should avoid even noticing any of these curious details. At least, that's been the implicit message of most of the recent news coverage
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x MEGLIO NN PENSARCI
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so many of today's auto-pilot articles and paint-by-the-numbers newscasts depict homosexuals as merely one dimensional martyrs to prejudice.
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x UN RITRATTO UNIDIMENSIONALE
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media stereotyping
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natural urge of journalists to reduce complex and unsettling questions about human nature to just another fable starring good guys/ gals we all can identify with (in this case, "gays"), who are discriminated against by bad guys (" homophobes")
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x TUTTO DEVE ESSERE RICONDOTTO AL CONFLITTO OMOFOBI VS OMOSEX
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preach morality rather than to try to understand reality.
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As with any other large collection of people, numerous fault lines divide homosexuals, but the most remarkable is the one separating gay men from lesbians.
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x GREAT DIVIDE TRA OMO
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The media's habit of applying the word to female homosexuals is male chauvinism at its most blatant: "gay" is just about the last term lesbians would have invented to describe themselves. As one lesbian activist succinctly put it, "We're not gay, we're angry!")
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x ANCHE IL TERMINE GAY È RESPINTO
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lumping together as "gays" everybody from Liberacé to Martina Navratilova
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This handy table of tendencies will of course be denounced as reflecting stereotypes.
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the more true a statement,
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...
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the more automatic the cries of "Stereotype!"
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Thus, even carefully worded summations of the obvious like, "Men tend to be more aggressive than women," are triumphantly refuted with, "So, you think Mister Rogers is more aggressive than Mrs. Thatcher? Huh? Huh?"
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x ESEMPIO
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most useful of all conceptual tools for thinking
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the probability distribution
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Rather than help educate the public to think in terms of bell-shaped curves and individual variances, the press instead warns us to abstain altogether from noticing average differences between groups.
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x GIORNALI E CURVA DI BELL
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this taboo endorses ignorance.
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(in the words of Homer Simpson, "Life is just a bunch of things that happen"),
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Of course, few "social critics" actually try to practice this idealistic ignorance in their private lives.
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suckers for frauds,
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"10% of all men and women are homosexual."
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gay erotic daydreams.
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gay critic Bruce Bawer,
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su
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has written of how he can know from momentary eye contact that a young father pushing a baby carriage past him on the street is "living a lie."
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x METODO
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Are homosexuals fairly common, like, say, tax-cheaters, lefthanders, or tithe-givers? Or are they fairly rare, like prison inmates, identical twins, or clergy? This is certainly an interesting topic, but why this purely empirical question is thought to possess such moral consequence that many people feel compelled to lie about it is beyond me.
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x PANMORALISMO
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heartbreak it causes both a homosexual and his or her parents when the adult child finally reveals the Surprising Truth.
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Disappointment, however, is inevitable: the desire to pass on your genes to grandchildren is bedrock human nature. What is far more avoidable, though, is the surprise. A more worldly awareness of those enduring likes and dislikes that tend to correlate with sexual orientation, and which so often manifest themselves early in childhood, could quite frequently allow the parents of children who turn out to be homosexual to have already spent years slowly getting used to the likelihood that this child won't ever make them grandparents, but can still make them proud and happy in many other ways.
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x ALMENO LA SORPRESA POTREBBE ESSERE EVITATA
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different inclinations of gays and lesbians do not follow easily predicted
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for many other traits, homosexuals exhibit their own sex's tendencies to a heightened degree. For instance, all great classical composers have been male. At least since Tchaikovsky, though, an impressive number of leading composers have been gay or bisexual (e.g., Britten, Copland, Barber, Poulenc, Corigliano, and Bernstein). In comparison, although "Women's Music" festivals play an important role in lesbian culture, their audiences distrust dazzling exhibitions of musical virtuosity, instead preferring simple folk songs with sincere lyrics.
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x L ESEMPIO DELLA MUSICA
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Has anyone yet deciphered a Unified Field Theory that would explain all of these complex patterns? Not that I'm aware of, but we can't begin to look for one without laying out all the facts first.
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x PRIMA I FATTI SE VOGLIAMO UNA TEORIA
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best criticism of this article's gay vs. lesbian dichotomy would be that it doesn't go far enough.
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Latin countries
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Americans insist on labeling as "gay" both Truman Capote and that exemplar of murderous masculine charisma, Alexander the Great.
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x LAT E ANGLO
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Latins are inclined to care less than Americans about whom a man goes to bed with and more about what he does there. Although this dominant vs. submissive distinction has evaporated from America's polite discourse, it remains the main theme of our impolite discourse
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c LATINI E ANGLO
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Gay vs. lesbian distinctions are also important for thinking about public policies.
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Homosexual-related issues like gays in the military, AIDS, and same-sex marriages cannot be discussed realistically without acknowledging the wide differences on average between gays and lesbians.
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x QUEST POLITICHE
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biological roots.
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STROMBAZZSTS DAI GIORNALI
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most of the research was performed on gay male subjects by gay male scientists and then hyped by gay male publicists. Going largely unreported is the lesbian population's profound ambivalence
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x RICERCHE
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x E LE LESBICHE
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(For example, an attack on the theory that lesbianism has biological causes is one of the main themes of Lillian Faderman's fine history of American lesbians, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers.)
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x FEDERMANS
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Many lesbian-feminists deny that their sexual orientation is biologically rooted,
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They may claim this simply to avoid contradicting feminist theory, which is, well, "biophobic."
Evidenzia (giallo) - Posizione 154
On the other hand, the lesbian-feminists might be right and the gay researcher/ activists wrong about the nature of homosexuality. Or, homosexuality might not have a single nature: at minimum, there could be a fundamental difference between lesbians and gays.
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X MA FORSE HANNO RAGIONE
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When discussing all other social controversies, the serious media instead pay mindful lip service to the dogma that socialization is the root of all differences between people.
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x SOCIALIZZAZIONE ALL ORIGINE DI TUTTO? SOLO FINCHÈ CONVIENE
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faith in the omnipotence of nurture
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constructionist creed
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a public donnybrook between gay men and lesbian-feminists over nature vs. nurture.
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x IL VERO CONFLITTO
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this gay vs. lesbian dichotomy can cast new light on many social questions.
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Fundamentally, as Thomas Sowell has pointed out, almost all American social controversies rest on conflicting assumptions about human nature. Is it infinitely malleable? If not, what are its constraints?
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x LA BASSE DI TUTT I CONFLITTI
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To study reproduction is to study sex and sexuality. To understand heterosexual
Evidenzia (giallo) - Posizione 170
For instance, honest discussion of the differences between lesbians and gays would also generate fresh insights into what feminists imperialistically call "women's" issues. While feminist theory is largely immune from radical questioning in most of the prestige media, few people actually take it seriously . . . especially feminists. They seldom pay their own theory the respect of treating it like a scientific theory and testing it against the evidence.
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x OMOSESSUALITÀ E QUESTIONE FEMMINILE
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feminists should welcome a frank appraisal of the contrasting longings and ambitions of gays and lesbians, since this offers fascinating new perspectives from which to assay feminist hypotheses.
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x CRUCIALE X LE FEMMINISTE IL DIVARIO GAY LESBICHE
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feminists tirelessly denounce the fashion and beauty industry for brainwashing American men into craving skin-deep feminine beauty.
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ALTRO ESEMPIO
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x FEMMEINISTE: IL MASCHIO È ALIENATO
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Luckily, the curious analyst can study people who have rejected heterosexual socialization:
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x GAY CONFUTAZIONE VGIVENTE
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"Women Seeking Women"
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"Men Seeking Men"
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Naomi Wolf (author of The Beauty Myth)
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the central creative role of gay men in the fashion business.
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IL COMPLOTTO MASCHILISTA È CAPEGGATO DAI GAY
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feminist pundits routinely portray the current fad in haute couture
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The Male Power Structure.
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In this battle for the hearts and minds of the female masses, it is the gay imagination that so often crystalizes the misty yearnings of femininity into those beguiling baubles and alluring images that help seduce heterosexual women away from the stern precepts of feminism.
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x LO STEREOTIPO MASCHILISTA È UNO STETREOTIPO GAY
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sabotaging feminism's war on femininity.
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stereotyping in "victim" vs. "oppressor"
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IL VERO STEREOTIPO
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We can never eliminate stereotypes. Instead, we should constantly search for more and better stereotypes,
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STEREOTIPI
