Wilson Woods
2009-08-10 22:40:53 UTC
It's hilarious, and it's also the surest bet going. Whenever someone
criticizes queers and the queer agenda, the self-styled Great Defenders
of Queers immediately and reflexively try to play a hand of The Queer
Game. The Queer Game is calling someone who criticizes queers and the
queer agenda a closet queer. It's an obvious and laughable rhetorical
game, but the practitioners of it are not deterred by the transparency
of their shabby effort. They all cite exactly the same bullshit
pseudo-scientific and thoroughly discredited "study", too. I've seen it
cited literally a dozen times in the last month. Of course, *none* of
the would-be players of The Queer Game has actually /read/ the so-called
"study", and none seems to appreciate that no one, not even the authors,
has ever attempted to replicate the so-called "study's" results. In
fact, the study was the most laughably politically motivated crapola
going in a field that is dominated by politically motivated crapola.
Psychology is widely acknowledged as the second least rigorous social
science, and barely a baby step above the least rigorous (sociology).
Psychology is nothing more than poetry: if you like it, it's good; and
if you don't, it's not good. There is no scientific or academic rigor
to it at all. The Great Defenders of Queers will howl in retort that
this "study" appeared in a "peer-reviewed journal", but they neglect to
note that the "studies" claiming to have conducted cold fusion in
tabletop jars *also* were published in "peer-reviewed" journals, and
that doesn't change the fact that they were *FRAUDULENT*.
The author of that *one* study that all players of The Queer Game cite
undermined his own conclusion:
Adams notes that there are at least two competing explanations for
the fact that homophobic men would be aroused by "male homosexual
erotic stimuli." One is the Freudian explanation in terms of latent
homosexuality. Despite their protests, these heterosexual homophobes
are secret homosexuals. Another explanation, however, is that
viewing homosexual stimuli causes negative emotions such as
anxiety in homophobic men but not in non-homophobic men. Because
anxiety has been shown to enhance arousal and erection, this
theory would predict increases in erection in homophobic men.
Furthermore, it would indicate that a response to homosexual
stimuli is a function of the threat condition rather than sexual
arousal per se.
http://www.skepdic.com/penilep.html
But that won't stop dedicated players of The Queer Game. They'll keep
citing that "study" - a "study" they haven't read, and are incompetent
to read - as if it "proves" their point. It doesn't, of course -
they're just playing a political game: The Queer Game. They have to
insult and demean queers in order to play it, too.
criticizes queers and the queer agenda, the self-styled Great Defenders
of Queers immediately and reflexively try to play a hand of The Queer
Game. The Queer Game is calling someone who criticizes queers and the
queer agenda a closet queer. It's an obvious and laughable rhetorical
game, but the practitioners of it are not deterred by the transparency
of their shabby effort. They all cite exactly the same bullshit
pseudo-scientific and thoroughly discredited "study", too. I've seen it
cited literally a dozen times in the last month. Of course, *none* of
the would-be players of The Queer Game has actually /read/ the so-called
"study", and none seems to appreciate that no one, not even the authors,
has ever attempted to replicate the so-called "study's" results. In
fact, the study was the most laughably politically motivated crapola
going in a field that is dominated by politically motivated crapola.
Psychology is widely acknowledged as the second least rigorous social
science, and barely a baby step above the least rigorous (sociology).
Psychology is nothing more than poetry: if you like it, it's good; and
if you don't, it's not good. There is no scientific or academic rigor
to it at all. The Great Defenders of Queers will howl in retort that
this "study" appeared in a "peer-reviewed journal", but they neglect to
note that the "studies" claiming to have conducted cold fusion in
tabletop jars *also* were published in "peer-reviewed" journals, and
that doesn't change the fact that they were *FRAUDULENT*.
The author of that *one* study that all players of The Queer Game cite
undermined his own conclusion:
Adams notes that there are at least two competing explanations for
the fact that homophobic men would be aroused by "male homosexual
erotic stimuli." One is the Freudian explanation in terms of latent
homosexuality. Despite their protests, these heterosexual homophobes
are secret homosexuals. Another explanation, however, is that
viewing homosexual stimuli causes negative emotions such as
anxiety in homophobic men but not in non-homophobic men. Because
anxiety has been shown to enhance arousal and erection, this
theory would predict increases in erection in homophobic men.
Furthermore, it would indicate that a response to homosexual
stimuli is a function of the threat condition rather than sexual
arousal per se.
http://www.skepdic.com/penilep.html
But that won't stop dedicated players of The Queer Game. They'll keep
citing that "study" - a "study" they haven't read, and are incompetent
to read - as if it "proves" their point. It doesn't, of course -
they're just playing a political game: The Queer Game. They have to
insult and demean queers in order to play it, too.