• frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io
    122·
    5 months ago

    Straight women probably commit way more crime but get away with it more frequently. I know I do. Also where are the bi criminals? Are there none? Did we just solve crime?

    • silasmariner@programming.devEnglish
      32·
      5 months ago

      In some contexts there’s no doubt you have a point, but liberal western cities I suspect that has no more impact than, say, the tendency of women to underreport domestic and sexual violence. Anyway I would imagine that a bigger factor is criminal perpetrators underreporting their own gayness

    • TheFinn@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      16·
      5 months ago

      I was about to say the same thing. Women will report violence from women, men are going to be less inclined to.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15·
        5 months ago

        And i imagine a lot of gay men have the attitude that if they report intimate partner violence it will come back to hurt them in one way or another.

        I know as a trans woman if I were to report violence from a cis woman I’d likely be reframed as the perpetrator and if I were to report violence from a trans woman it would be framed as “trans woman commits violent crime” and used to hurt me.

  • FrezikEnglish
    59·
    5 months ago

    Interesting because there’s a very old gay stereotype that they’re extremely violent. These days, it’s usually that gay men are effeminate and passive, and I think a lot of people don’t even realize this stereotype existed.

    Baron Harkonnen and Scar (The Lion King) are examples.

    • peregrin5@piefed.socialEnglish
      30·
      5 months ago

      Jafar. i don’t think these characters often represent violent crime though. more often just deviousness

    • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.netEnglish
      23·
      5 months ago

      Captain Hook, evil dandy trope.

      The Baron Harkonnen example is interesting because the author was admittedly homophobic when he wrote the character, but later regretted the choice after making amends with his gay son.

    • Taalnazi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      5 months ago

      Examples of that older stereotype, you mean?

      I’d never have guessed Scar were gay.

      • FrezikEnglish
        48·
        5 months ago

        Disney never comes right out and says these things about their cartoons. Ursula is based directly on the drag artist Divine, but you won’t catch a Disney executive admitting that.

        But yes, Scar is basically the gay uncle.

          • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            19·
            5 months ago

            https://time.com/6282514/little-mermaid-ursula-drag-queen-divine/

            Ursula is pretty easy to understand, because that’s so 1:1 with Divine and there are direct confirmations.

            With Scar one of the supervising animators, Andreas Deja, is openly gay (now, not at the time because it was the 90s) and has spoken about adding campiness and other gay influence to his work.

            With other examples it’s a bit more difficult, because to understand it you need to understand how the Hays Code affected the portrayal of queer people on screen. The short version is that queer people weren’t allowed to be overtly portrayed at all, so any characters with queer coded behavior (by 30s to 60s standards) wound up as villains. As this becomes more entrenched in media, these mannerisms became shorthand for villain, so by the time the 90s rolls around the people referencing these tropes might not be familiar with their origin.

            For the long version, see the documentary The Celluloid Closet.

              • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                2·
                5 months ago

                Out of curiosity, did you copy the link from someone else’s comment on another instance? I’ve literally never seen a Blahaj comment get caught by a censor filter for anything, much less a .com

                • Interstellar_1English
                  3·
                  5 months ago

                  Turns out there’s a spam filter on blogspot links because spam bots very frequently send links to them

  • adhocfungus@midwest.socialEnglish
    47·
    5 months ago

    I’d definitely believe the top two. My oldest sister seems to only date dudes that end up beating her, but my other sister has been put in the hospital by every woman she’s dated. I know it’s slim pickings, and rural Midwest lesbians have a lot to be mad about, but stop taking it out on each other! There are more deserving targets.

      • erotadorMEnglish
        5·
        5 months ago

        hi im from the 196 mod team, i noticed some comments you made break a few of our rules, and we dont support pusdoscience here, please refrain from further comments or we will consider banning you.

        • Madagaskar_sky@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          5 months ago

          Hi, phase read the rest of my comments in this thread to understand what I failed to convey in that comment. I wasn’t trying to say that certain peoples are inferior. I was asking of there was a family history for such disposition.

    • Sombyr@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      As a bi trans woman, I’ve definitely noticed similar trends between straight guys and lesbian women. And for anybody wondering, in my experience, lesbian trans women are equally as abusive as cis lesbian women, and straight trans men equally as predatory as cis straight men.

  • PyroNeurosisEnglish
    33·
    5 months ago

    I hate the datamancer of this chart- if you have ‘heterosexual men/women’ the other bars should be labelled ‘homosexual men/women’

    And listing them alphabetically instead of by grouping or delinquency is also mildly irksome.

  • Kairos@lemmy.todayEnglish
    33·
    5 months ago

    Commit or get convicted of (hint: its impossible to measure crimes commited)

      • riwoEnglish
        8·
        5 months ago

        that would make it quite hard to get reliable information on the perpetrators’ actual sexuality orientation outside of situations where the victim personally knows them

        • ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.worldEnglish
          16·
          5 months ago

          Its a survey specifically of intimate partner violence, so it’s all situations where the victim knows the perpetrator. (Again,assuming the data is from the source I think it is).

  • Phen@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
    19·
    5 months ago

    Is there any average differences in hormones between gay and straight people of the same gender?

    • aminoEnglish
      6·
      5 months ago

      what a weird comment to make

      • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.netEnglish
        16·
        5 months ago

        Is it? I’m don’t feel informed enough to be sure of the answer and I don’t think that finding out one way or another would be problematic. It’s a genuinely interesting question from a scientific perspective that follows on from OP’s chart.

    • InvalidName2@lemmy.zipEnglish
      19·
      5 months ago

      This morning I drove to the post office going 38 mph when the speed limit is 35. Last week I checked my phone at the social security office when the guard was distracted. Next week, who knows what depravity I may commit.