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Americans Greatly Overestimate U.S. Gay Population

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Re: Americans Greatly Overestimate U.S. Gay Population

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Post by meruru »

masonic wrote: post #72
JMTQp8lwXL wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe a minor point, but I think sexual fluidity remains under-addressed by these polls. Some people are, for all intents and purposes, identifying as LGBT during, say, their college years, but then go on to settle down with an opposite-sex spouse. If the person once identified as LGBT, but doesn't today, is it based on what they "actively" are? Or if you ever once identified as LGBT, for purposes of polling, you rem…

sexual fluidity Based on your context, "sexual preference fluidity" would be the appropriate term.

What's the ambiguity here? For self-identity matters we already have the expression "gender fluidity".

Re: Americans Greatly Overestimate U.S. Gay Population

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Post by dang »

JMTQp8lwXL wrote: post #33
fukkenFaggots wrote: post #22

One in ten. That's it.

I'm now kind of curious if Hacker News has a policy on usernames (with respect to the standards applied to comments).

We ban accounts that have trollish usernames.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

Re: Americans Greatly Overestimate U.S. Gay Population

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colemickens wrote: post #96
codingslave wrote: post #6

If you look at pride month and the level of marketing and news associated with it, one would estimate that the gay population is huge. Nearly every major corporation on linkedin has a rainbow logo, my uber the other day showed their ride path as a rainbow. The level of influence that LGBTQ currently has in the American mind share far outsizes their population, even now I am worried my account will be banned for menti…

How does a company pandering to a consumer group have anything to do with the civil rights struggle of that group? How am I, as a gay man, responsible for the fact that companies see Pride as a valuable advertising angle? I don't know a single LGBT person that is happy about it, other than it means that society doesn't ACTIVELY, VIOLENTLY HATE US ANYMORE. >I have actually had many people from different walks of life…

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Re: Americans Greatly Overestimate U.S. Gay Population

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Post by [deleted] »

colemickens wrote: post #96
codingslave wrote: post #6

If you look at pride month and the level of marketing and news associated with it, one would estimate that the gay population is huge. Nearly every major corporation on linkedin has a rainbow logo, my uber the other day showed their ride path as a rainbow. The level of influence that LGBTQ currently has in the American mind share far outsizes their population, even now I am worried my account will be banned for menti…

How does a company pandering to a consumer group have anything to do with the civil rights struggle of that group? How am I, as a gay man, responsible for the fact that companies see Pride as a valuable advertising angle? I don't know a single LGBT person that is happy about it, other than it means that society doesn't ACTIVELY, VIOLENTLY HATE US ANYMORE. >I have actually had many people from different walks of life…

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Re: Americans Greatly Overestimate U.S. Gay Population

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Post by masonic »

meruru wrote: post #101
masonic wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

sexual fluidity Based on your context, "sexual preference fluidity" would be the appropriate term.

What's the ambiguity here? For self-identity matters we already have the expression "gender fluidity".

Because sexual preference and gender identity are completely different things.

Re: Americans Greatly Overestimate U.S. Gay Population

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Post by meruru »

masonic wrote: post #106
meruru wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the ambiguity here? For self-identity matters we already have the expression "gender fluidity".

Because sexual preference and gender identity are completely different things.

Yes, I've addressed that in my comment. I was wondering if there was some third aspect I wasn't considering.

Re: Americans Greatly Overestimate U.S. Gay Population

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Post by tastygreenapple »

fwip wrote: post #32
tastygreenapple wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, what other groups make up 5% of the population and get corporate logos changed in recognition of that group? About 5% of Americans watched the NBA finals, did brands go out of their way to make NBA fans feel included? Do news shows bring on their NBA correspondent to talk about NBA issues?

Yes? Advertisers always market to sports fans.

When did google rebrand itself in NBA finals rainbows?

Re: Americans Greatly Overestimate U.S. Gay Population

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Post by luord »

This... Makes perfect sense. And it's really odd that the population would increase instead of decreasing, for obvious reasons.

Whatever the case, there must be something wrong with millennials and younger, but I'd bet it's more likely to be overreporting instead of underreporting.

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