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[–] 151 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

A love for women is the biggest risk factor for violent crime.

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  • [–] 52 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Alternatively, the qualities that make you lust after women tend to lead to more violent crimes.

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  • [–] 52 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Alternatively; crime is hot AF and the only way I've ever gotten laid.

    Edit: doing sexy crimes that got people to momemtarily ignore the red flags. Not sex crimes. Not sex crimes at the time; we'll see what counts by winter.

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    [–] 119 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That’s silly, imagining that people exist on a spectrum. Don’t you know everything in life is black and white, either or, binary?

    The Kinsey scale only contains 0 and 6 for a reason. If there were any numbers between 0 and 6, people might think the world was complex and nuanced or something.

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    [–] 89 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    "Be gay, do crime" is only relevant to women.

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    [+] 64 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 29 points 1 year 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

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 59 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Examples of that older stereotype, you mean?

    I'd never have guessed Scar were gay.

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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Not doubting, but can I read someone's commentary that explains this more?

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    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.

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    [–] 45 points 1 year ago* (1 child)
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    [–] 33 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I guess bisexuals do literally 0 crime.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    A school friend of mine was shot in the back of the head by her lesbian lover a year after we graduated high school.

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    [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    Them: "Are you just just going to bend over and take that?!?"

    Me:

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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    [–] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    come on brothers. be gay do crime!

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    [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    We can pump these numbers up

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    I support the message, but sure would like more info on the y axis: what exactly are 4 points of violent delinquency? How does that compare to 6, or 1?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    These are rookie numbers. Come on gays, we can do better.

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