hoy es mi cumpleaños.

Bueno, hoy es un día especial para mí (nosotras), pues acabo de cumplir 19 años .. Tengo 19 años, es un regalo especial del tiempo ¿no?, desprecie mis 18 años .. Bueno, voy a ser honesta...siempre digo "ya no me gustaba este año mi próximo cumpleaños será diferente .." ¡Qué triste es eso?, nada triste de hecho, es más como .. una nueva "Ilusión" de que algo al menos "este año" será diferente. siempre que me despierto en la mañana pienso en algunas cosas al azar que por lo menos me mantienen en la cama durante una o dos horas; así que el tema de hoy fue ... "¿Cómo puedo decir cuando crezco realmente?". . ¿y si .. -Lo digo en serio!- ¿Y si el día llamado es sólo un illucion y tengo realmente 28 años? ¿qué pasaría si todo el mundo perdiera un día?, ¿qué pasaría si de repente los segundos comenzaron a ir más rápido y más rápido? .. ¿y si todos solo perdemos el tiempo pensando en tonterías y la realidad es que ...estamos todos muertos? ¿Qué es el tiempo de todas formas? ¿Cómo se atreven a medirlo?, NO SÉ! y no creo que importe realmente, ah! y no me gusta el "perdimos tiempo" más bien me parece mas apriopiado el.."Perdí" que es lo que realmente me importa.


Entonces se me ocurrió esta idea ... " ya que odiaba mis 18 años tal vez no debería decir que he respirado en mis 18 años en absoluto".


¿No es maravilloso cuando se puede mentir así? Debo decir que es realmente impresionante.


Fuera de eso quiero disfrutar ahora, una nueva vida supongo; ¡viva el paso del tiempo, mi querido humano!.





hoy me pasé el día con mi familia, comimos pastél y helado Y Mi nueva película llamada "Desayuno en Tiffani's", que mi hermana me dio.

algo de hoy.

Bueno, pues hoy me desperté, y me di cuenta que tengo que ir a mi preparatoria sólo para hacer el último paso para mi certificado. ¿Alguna vez ha sentido como que la única cosa que quieres hacer en el resto del día es sólo estar en la cama?, bueno, eso me pasa a mí, hoy, simplemente no me gusta la gente en las calles, me siento como que todos están mirandome, o que no me miran en absoluto, y eso es realmente frustrante, porque en un momento alguien puede venirte y matar-violar, nadie haria nada, la calle apesta, realmente venderia mi computadora portátil para comprarme un carro, me gustaría ir a donde sea, en cualquier momento.





Si yo tuviera un automóvil, sería totalmente un automóvil Deportivo. sería un coche negro muy bonito con una franja en la parte superior y una aleta en la espalda, con ventanas negras. No habria lugar para nadie más que yo y tal vez un perro negro con un collar de estos bonitos con spikes!. Me gustaría poner música todo el camino hasta que mi destino y no me importaria si machuco a alguien jaja, me gustaría tener un carro con un olor muy agradable un olor como...fresas con jugo de limón...el aroma de fresa con jugo de limón existe? bien ... a decir verdad eso es toda la motivacion para mí ahora .. Me gusta la psicología, sí!, pero no me gusta en absoluto alludar a la gente, mucho menos problemas del pueblo ... todo lo que planeo hacer es trabajar como tal, sólo para conseguir mi bello carro ... Hell Yeah!.

Valery Milovic.

Hola!, el tema de hoy es sobre uno de mis artistas favoritos, cuando se trata de dibujo es Valery M. que puede traer magia a la vida. Recuerdo estar sentada en mi computadora cuando tenía 13 años y deseando que su arte fuera una realidad. Sin embargo ahora sé que su arte no puede ser en realidad "realmente original", y otros podrían decir que no es original en absoluto ... (como sé que podría ser cierto) yo la amo todavía, porque me hacen una de las personas que soy ahora. Ella me inspiró y a otros a hacer arte y no tener miedo de lo que otros pudieran pensar, 13 años yo digo. aunque tengo que admitir que todavía quiero comprar sus bellos dibujos.



Y Todo comienza asi:




La mayoría de los personajes Broken Toyland llegó a la vida en los años 90 y principios de los 00's. Mucho de esto se iniciaron con la serie, Weeds. Las imágenes tienen que ver con los amores de valery M. en el pasado ... juguetes antiguos, dibujos animados y tal. Luego vinieron las muñecas de trapo, conejitos de retazos y otros. Broken Toyland está compuesto de muchos personajes entrañables. La base está en la conducta, la emoción, la situación y la imperfección. Mientras "Bunny" muy a menudo se permite fumar o tomar una copa (o ambos) en la mano, esto no es lo que se está promoviendo. Hay mucho más cosas de lo que podría pensarse a primera vista. Los anestésicos simbolizan otra cosa.
Defecto, la mortalidad, la soledad, la apatía, desorientación, ser invisible, ser un paria, etc, son lo que se está simbolizado y / o representado. Valery M. Tiene una gran empatía hacia los personajes y se siente atraída a mantener y recrear una y otra vez. Valey M. Supone que se identifica con ellos muy bien, al igual que muchos. Pero no tengas miedo ... hay un destello brillante en la esperanza, también.





1920 - 1950 es de celuloide, el estaño y juguetes de peluche, así como dibujos animados y cómics de la época, son su inspiración. Eran tiempos más sencillos, con mucha música. Cuando ciertas cosas no eran tan importantes como lo son hoy, y la vida era mucho más lenta (que al parecer ... yo no estaba con vida).
Aunque sus obras de arte derivan de el amor y el estudio de la década de 1920 - 1950 de los dibujos animados y los juguetes, sus obras de arte no son para los niños. su arte es para los hijos adultos (y no lo somos todos? Si se admite o no?
Algunos de los fondos en los cómics y los dibujos animados antiguos fueron asombrosos. Como si alguien se volviera loco con las salpicaduras, goteos, raspaduras, capas y cualquier otra cosa que se le ocurria hacer para crear un efecto diferente a cualquier otro. Valery M. Trata de emular eso, Lo fresco, impactante e interesante. Incluso en los dibujos animados más recientes, como Ren y Stimpy, seste tipo de cosas que todavía se hacen.




A principios de 2000, nació la serie Broken Toys (que dio a luz a Broken Toyland). Inspirada en el libro, "Conejo de peluche" (velveteen rabbit).//que por sierto ablare de el mas tarde en este blog//. Haciendo bocetos y desarrollado a muchos personajes. Algunos de los cuales ni siquiera han se presentado todavía.
Mientras que Broken Toyland se ha convertido oficialmente en más que una dirección o serie. Valey M. es el universo de Broken Toyland.


Muchos dirian que su arte es muy parecido al.."arte" de camile rose garcia, Devo y me honra decirles que No!, de hecho Camile Rose G. Tiene vastante critica y aunque su trabajo sea muy paresido a mi amada Valery M. A Camile le falta ese.."algo".

Pintura de camile




Estas ultimas dos pinturas fueron hechas por camile.


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Killer Movies (1)

Bueno, como me gustan las películas, (como se puede esperar) hoy voy a hablar de una de las películas que más me llamó la atención desde que era niña, recuerdo haber visto este tipo de películas con mi papá y mi hermana, y por lo que no tengo algo mejor que pensar hoy en día, les presentaré algunas.

Dolly Dearest (1992)



si no fuera suficiente con Chucky...

It (1990)



aunque tiene un montón de re-makes divertidos en youtube, será siempre este tipo el hombre a quien más temía en mi infancia, además de Jason, y la razón por la que todavía no cierro los ojos mientras me baño.

Rosemary's Baby (1968)



este no me marcó, pero todavía creo que puede ocurrir, con música muy cool y un sentido del humor negro, Rosemary's Baby es una película agradable de ver después de romper un corazón. haha

Pet Sematary (1989)



esta película es la mejor, llamara tu Atención desde el principio hasta el final. hoy en dia no podría ser "la película inquietante para ver en con la luz prendida y no dormir hasta informar a todos los de su familia que no quieres ser enterrado en un cementerio de mascotas, porque no quieres vivir tu la vida de nuevo ... (8) ", pero es una película que se deve ver y aun más .. Es realmente graciosa. (Para obtener mejores resultados, por favor ver esto por tí sol@).


Leprechaun (1993)




Me acuerdo de ver esta pelicula de niña y pensar en el calzado del leprechaun que nunca tendria, pero aun asi esta película es realmente inquietante ... sin hablar de la actuación de Warwick Davis que realmente es un gran actor.

Ed Gein (2000)



Realmente me gustan las películas de asesinos en serie, y Ed Gein no se queda atras, esta película me parece que tiene dos partes, 1) la tristeza y 2) la rabia, muy bueno, muy bueno.

Sybil (1976)(TV)




ver esta película es como creer en algo que no se creen que podría pasarle a cualquiera .. pero confía en mí .. es que es real .. caracter bipolar/12? todo en una misma persona... Creo que era incluso más de 12, pobre sybil. (materia psicologíca).

The Bad Seed (1956)



uno de los primeros niños mal en el cine, la mala semilla nos cuenta una historia sobre una hermosa niña que es mejor que la trates bien ... Yo creo que puede ser como una "Lolita X 100", pero todavía vale la pena y la risa ver.

Nosferatu (1922



que dicen que Twilight? Dios! hoy día la gente olvidó por completo el verdadero significado de un vampiro .. la sangre, la noche y el miedo.

Children of the Corn (1984)



esta película me recuerda a los niños de mi primaria si tan sólo hubieran tenido armas.

Little Otik (Otesánek, 2000)




esta película fue tomada de un antiguo cuento de hadas, este film mescla stop motion con la realidad y algunas cosas que estoy segura que a los pedófilos les gustara. Es una película artística que nos cuenta una historia acerca de lo que una pareja casada seria capaz de hacer cuando no pueden tener hijos por su cuenta, la tristeza nos lleva a un mundo de hadas que ni siquiera cuando se convierte en extraña y mortal dejaremos.

Trick 'r Treat (2008)



que diría que no se puede reír cuando algo malo sucede? MIRALA YA!!

Ginger Snaps



son 3 películas, vale la pena ver la 3.


Carrie (1976)



¿Quién no querría volver atrás en el tiempo y hacer lo mismo?, esta es película vale la pena ver, creo que la nueva versión de Carrie y Carrie 2 sucks!

Necronomicon

well, as i see my life it's quite boring and that i have nothing better to say i will tell you about something i DO like... Yes, my dear, it's called "a book" from my inspiration and sick love "H.P Lovecraft"
full name: Howard Phillips Lovecraft

(August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of horror, fantasy, and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction.

Lovecraft's guiding literary principle was what he termed "cosmicism" or "cosmic horror", the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally alien. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. As early as the 1940s, Lovecraft had developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fiction featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Christian humanism. Lovecraft's protagonists usually achieve the mirror-opposite of traditional gnosis and mysticism by momentarily glimpsing the horror of ultimate reality and the abyss.

Although Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades, and he is now regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th century. According to Joyce Carol Oates, Lovecraft — as with Edgar Allan Poe in the 19th century — has exerted "an incalculable influence on succeeding generations of writers of horror fiction".[3] Stephen King called Lovecraft "the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale."

Now my dear that you "know" him i'll tell you... I LOVE ALL of his stories but the main.. MY SECRET LOVE it's called.."NECRONOMICON"


Necronomicon also known as "the book of the dead" (Lovecraft took the name from the Poeticon Astronomicon Book That i eventually will talk about it in this blog my children) written by the "mad man" Abdul Alhazred (actually a fiction name of lovecraft's Childhood) Tells us a story about a traveler in the desert and how that traveler tends to create you and then you'll end up realizing that the necronomicon it's a survival adventure before you die and all the things you NEED to know after you die, like.. "what would you do", "where are you going","what should you do", "what to ask","how to ask it"... etc. etc. The book tells us TONS of history, REAL history mostly about how the world was really created, by whom and.. well...in retrospective humans are only a crappy experiment made by creatures form another world. Even though the necronomicon also tells us true history about the world, some wars that really happened, To me it's like getting "national geographic - History Channel - Sci Fi Movies" all in one book, i just love it, and so everyone else with a hard stomach, an open mind and a mature-black sense of humor. means.. you'll love it too!.


so yes!, i DO love every thing else that H.P.Lovecraft has written, but i really think that The necronomicon was a master piece. and so.. my so boring day cames up with something good..."That is not dead which can eternal lie.And with strange aeons even death may die."

Psicologa!

yes! today at "school" (evaluating classes for university fuckers) i met this girl, one inch tall, two sizes of thin weight and may seem like a cutter... ANYWAYS! i was right next to her doing this stupid biology test and she started to talk to me. you know.. she was pretty nice, so we started this chat" about our interest in university and wich were our choices, and she told me something about..."physical trainer", I'm not a mean person but.. when she sayed that my first impression whas..."but shes like an elf so.. destroyable" NO i didn't sayed that! i just sayed.."cool your gonna be rich!" ... gosh! sometimes i wish i could just say what comes to mi mind becuse if THAT where the case.. i wouldn't be thinking... all the rest of the conversation..."Am i as mean as i think i am????" haha, so anyways, Her question that finally came after 3 Oreo's and some smiles and laughs about the fucktards of my "no-longer-short-period-classmates" was.."and.. what are you going to study?" so i answered.."psychology" (i have to admit that every time i say.."i'm going to be a psychologist" a sort of "enlightenment followed by a non-cool way people is going to react thing" cames and i just.. kind of avoid the situation by laughing.. but this time was different...SHE ACTUALLY SAYED "WELL YOU LOOK LIKE A PSYCHOLOGIST!!".. and i was like... :D!!!"THANK YOU!!" (and then i felt sorry because i thought that she was wrong about what she wanted to study...remorse followed by a sort of... HAPPINESS! OMG!...you know.. when you are happy and something make you even more happy (happier) than you was.. well.. that happened to me.. today...




what i've learned about all this was.. that not because someone say It's better than you you're gonna believe them?.. NO... it's just a matter of time for someone.. a strange even YOU might just came with this that you are too... just a metter of time i say.


XOXO

6 Bullshit Facts About Psychology That Everyone Believes

Psychology is one of those subjects that everybody likes to think they know something about. We love to go around diagnosing our friends and co-workers, both to make sense of the world and to make ourselves feel like we're smarter than they are.

But like any science that makes its way into the pop culture, a lot of the "common sense" statements we hear every day are so wrong that they border on raving idiocy. Such as...





#6.
"If You Let Your Anger Out, You'll Feel Better!"




You always hear people talk about how "cathartic" an experience was and how much better they feel, or you'll hear them say things like, "If you keep your anger bottled up, one day you'll just snap!"

In fact the "about to go crazy because he can't express anger" character is a mainstay in television and movies (see that Simpsons episode where Ned Flanders finally loses it, and every movie where a renegade cop fires his gun into the air instead of unloading on the bad guy who just killed his wife).

Things like squeezing stress dolls, screaming into a pillow, hitting a punching bag and strangling a kitten are all practices that we've seen offered as healthy alternatives to walking up to the fish counter at Farm Fresh and drowning the clerk in the lobster tank.



A lot of actual therapies have been constructed around this idea, and they all basically encourage you to curb your anger by feeding a knuckle sandwich to a punching bag, to prevent you from doing the same to your boss. It makes sense, right? Why throw your wife against the refrigerator when the casserole she under-cooked will shatter to pieces in a much more literal, and satisfying way?

Why it is Bullshit:

Research says it doesn't work. Expressing your anger, even against inanimate objects, doesn't make you less angry at all. In fact, it actually makes you want to get pissed off. Imagine if Bruce Banner walked around all day looking for an excuse to hulk-out, but replace the embarrassing shredded pants with friends and loved ones who are legitimately terrified every time his favorite sports team loses.

See, we humans have these things called "habits." When we do something, and it makes us feel good, we want to do it again... and more often. This is why you don't see a lot of Buddhist monks throwing bricks through storefront windows on their path to enlightenment and Lifetime original movies spend more on broken casserole dishes than on acting. The rush of anger is addictive as hell, and letting yourself lash out as a means to control your anger is like drinking to control your urge to drink.

And that's bad news, considering there are lots of situations where you don't have an inanimate object to take it out on. If a person gets entrenched in the habit of beating the living shit out of an inanimate object every time they get upset, heads are going to roll if they can't excuse themselves from a meeting to go chokeslam the tank on the break room water cooler.




#5.
"Just Believe in Yourself, and You'll Succeed!"



The "self-esteem" thing has been hammered into our brains for decades, based on the belief that high self-esteem types achieve more in school, make and keep more friends and, in general, function better as a member of society.

Pretty much every single high school movie is a huge proponent of this theory. The fat, dumpy pariah, tired of years of depressing abuse, digs deep down and discovers his/her own self-worth in time for the big dance/game/senior trip. Then the entire student body takes notice of this radical change and raises this loser up to the most popular kid in school (roll credits to a Green Day song).



Numerous training programs and self-help books take this idea and run with it; promising that building self-esteem is the key to overcoming obstacles and failure. Even elementary schools jumped on board and started giving self-esteem classes to kids, because as all Americans know, the key to happiness is constant rewards for little to no actual accomplishments.

Why it is Bullshit:

This seems to be one of those deals where they've confused correlation and causation. Rather than thinking, "Maybe kids with high self-esteem feel good about themselves because they get good grades in school and have lots of friends," they decided that it's the other way around, that they succeed because they have self-esteem. So they tried to teach people to feel good about themselves for no other reason than pure entitlement, figuring the actual reasons for feeling good about themselves would follow at some later date.

This results in some kids having too much self-esteem, a breed of human that scientists classify as "douchebag."




We're not kidding. Research shows kids who have an inflated sense of self-worth become aggressive when their sense of superiority is called into question, leading to a more damaging fall for little Billy when he realizes what a loser he is (whereas fat Ralph already knew himself to be a loser and is therefore immune to disappointment).

We're certainly not experts, but it would, you know, seem like the solution would be to teach the stuff that leads to success (like social and communication skills, better strategies at dealing with stress, etc.) and just let that lead naturally to success and thus self-esteem, rather than just bypassing all that and going right for the self-esteem part.

Mr. Miyagi didn't teach the Karate Kid to believe in himself. He taught him how to kick people in the fucking head.



#4.
"Cult Members are Stupid, Gullible Sheep!"



Quick, go find an Internet article that mentions Scientology. Now check out the comments.



You will find almost universal agreement that anyone who participates in a cult (or, organized religion of any kind) is either weak, retarded or some kind of weaktarded combination of the two. We tend to associate cults with fanaticism, assuming that they are all made up of people that wear bed sheets and live in backwoods communes pissing in Dixie cups. Thanks to high profile, apocalyptic and/or suicide cults like the Branch Davidians and Heaven's Gate, we don't have much reason to think otherwise.

Why it is Bullshit:


Studies show cult members are just as intelligent, if not more so, than the general public. And around 95 percent of cult members are perfectly sane (when they join up, anyway), with no history at all of real psychological problems. They're not stupid, and they're not crazy.

Of course this only serves to make cults even scarier. How in the hell do these groups get people--who are every bit as sane and smart as your best friend--to join up?

OK, ask yourself this: Why do rebellious biker types all immediately go out and start dressing and talking exactly like other biker types?



Why did you do, well, every single thing you did in your teenage years?




As social animals we are hard-wired to want to belong to a group. It's a need as basic and real as hunger or sex. When we get cut off from our group--say we lose a job, or move to a new city, or break up with our girlfriend--we go a little crazy. Cults are very, very good at finding people in that exact moment of weakness, and saying exactly the right things. Those pamphlets that sound so corny and transparent to you, read like a glorious breath of fresh air to somebody caught in one of those rough spots.

So sure, when we're in our normal, stable state of affairs we like to imagine ourselves coolly shooting down all of the charismatic cult leader's stupid-ass claims with the power of pure critical thinking. But remember that the next time you're drunk dialing your ex-girlfriend in the middle of the night, or stalking her new boyfriend, sneaking into the parking lot where he works and pooping on the hood of his car.

If you can't remember ever doing something dumb and embarrassing because you were feeling lonely and rejected, well, either you're very young, or you were just too drunk at the time to retain the memory.

And once these people are in the cult they realize that, no, not all cult members wind up as part of some bizarre suicide ceremony. Most lead normal, successful lives.



And once they make friends with these normal, successful people, what are they going to do when they run into some smartass like the Internet commenters above, who talk about how only retarded sheeple believe that garbage? They stand up for the group, that's what.

It's not even about defending the beliefs at that point, it's about defending their friends. And mindlessly doing things because all our friends do them is pretty much 90 percent of what society is.




#3.
"Be Careful! Advertisers Use Subliminal Messages to Make Us Do Things!"




This myth seems to re-emerge every decade or so in a different form. In the 80s it was "backward masking," supposed hidden (and Satanic!) messages in rock music, only audible when played backward, yet able to secretly influence the teenage brain when played normally.

But before that it was subliminal messaging, a technique whereby advertisers could allegedly flash a message on a screen so fast it wasn't consciously noticed, yet still able to trick your subconscious into doing or buying whatever the advertiser said.

These days you'll hear similar claims about "neuro-linguistic programming," which performers like magician Derren Brown claim allows them to control any subject by slipping certain command words into a sentence, unnoticed.

All of it amounts to the same thing: forms of communication that can magically bypass your conscious mind and manipulate your subconscious until you're nothing more than a helpless puppet.

Why it is Bullshit:


Not only do none of these particular methods work, as far as we know, no methods for subliminal messaging work. No, your brain can't pick up backward messages when played forward, and even when you intentionally play a track backwards, most of what you think you hear is a product of your own imagination.

The one study that claimed subliminal "flash frame" advertising worked (saying that rapidly flashing "Drink Coca-Cola" and "Hungry? Eat Popcorn" on a movie theater screen lead to massive increases in the sales of both products) is now believed to have been based on falsified data, if it ever actually happened at all.

As for neuro-linguistic programming, well, there's a reason why the main guy known for using it is a magician.

But this is common sense. If there really was a reliable method for distributing invisible and unheard messages that could turn the masses into robots, whoever mastered it first would utterly rule the world.

They wouldn't need a military to invade another country, they'd just have to get their broadcast heard by the population there, and they would be helpless to resist. The fact that every single government in the history of the planet has failed to invent a method for this, no matter how badly they wanted it, makes us pretty comfortable in calling it bullshit.


#2.
"We'll Find Out if He's Lying! Give Him a Lie Detector Test!"






What do murder suspects, government job applicants and game show contestants all have in common? They can all wind up hooked up to a polygraph to see if they're telling the truth.

Polygraph (commonly called "lie detector") tests go back to the early 20th century, and have been used in law enforcement since the 1920s. Over the next 80 years the machines became sufficiently advanced that society allowed their use in game shows.

Remember The Moment of Truth? Where they hooked contestants up to a polygraph so that they could get caught in outrageous lies and humiliate themselves in front of millions of people for money (which really just describes every game show, ever)?



Even Maury Povich uses polygraph tests to "help" a bafflingly large number of couples determine whether one of them is cheating. And while it seems odd for guilty people who believe in the tests to agree to be tested, Maury isn't exactly known for having Nobel Laureates or members of Star Fleet as guests.

Why it is Bullshit:


The problem was always the "lie detector" nickname given to the devices. It implied that the machines somehow know the truth, and can sense falsehood in the air. Obviously they don't (as that would be, you know, magic). They instead simply measure a number of physical responses that may mean you're lying.

Now, studies do show that polygraph tests are slightly better than, say, marshmallows at determining a person's truthfulness, but they are far from completely accurate. In 2003 a huge study by the National Academy of Sciences found polygraphs do help detect lies at a rate a little better than flipping a coin does. But that's actually a bad thing; if your hit rate is just higher than chance, the sheer number of false positives render the effort worthless. For instance, when using the machines to screen employees (as federal agencies do in the U.S.) they found you'd be better off just rejecting the guys who have "shifty eyes."



The problem is there are a huge number of variables that can throw off the results, everything from the personality and physical condition of the person taking the test, to the technique of the guy asking the questions, to the way the results are scored, to countless tricks people have figured out that can throw the test off (Soviet spy Aldrich Ames beat the polygraph... twice).

That's why it's in some ways worse than flipping a coin. With the coin, you know it's random. With the polygraph, you get a false sense of security (after all, the guilty guy who beats a test is now less of a suspect than if he hadn't been tested at all).

Damn, you'd expect more from a machine when one of its inventors also created Wonder Woman. Or maybe not.



#1.
"Carl is Such a Homophobe! I Bet He's Secretly Gay!"




If you watch any movie or television show that focuses on gay characters, particularly those made by Alan Ball, you're going to eventually see the "Hates Gays Because He's Secretly Gay" character (see American Beauty). It's such a pop culture archetype that in real life when you see some guy at the gym expressing disgust at the whole gay thing, you automatically assume he's got some pictures of well-oiled dudes under his bed. Or actual dudes.

And we do see it in real life; staunch conservative politicians wind up soliciting sex in public bathrooms and sending pornographic emails to underage male pages.



Why it is Bullshit:


OK, we admit this is sometimes true. There was even a popular study done in 1996 with 64 male college students, 35 of whom were homophobes (according to a survey they filled out gauging their attitudes on the subject). The researchers hooked a meter to their dongs (seriously) and had them watch lots of porn (yes, this happened--here's the damned link).

It was found that the majority of the homophobes would get at least a semi-boner while watching gay porn (where only about a quarter of the non-homophobes got aroused).

You can see right away what's odd about the numbers. All-told, nearly half of their total test subjects got at least semi-hard watching the gay porn. So... half the male population is secretly gay? That seems fairly unlikely.

So, what is it? That guys who volunteered for this test were simply more likely to lean that way? You do have to wonder how dedicated they were to the anti-gay cause if they agreed to have some wires plugged into their tackle box while they sat and watched a movie called Rear Admiral.

Or maybe this was just some very well-made gay porn. Or, maybe this whole thing is just ridiculously unscientific.

Ding! We think we have a winner!

Hell, the above study even notes that gay lust and anti-gay rage can both give you a boner. We've got a confusion boner right now!

The main problem is that nothing in science says that "homophobia" is even a thing. It's not listed among the actual phobias. It's more of a slang term that gets used in popular culture to describe a huge range of attitudes, from people who have strong moral objection to homosexuality due to religious beliefs or upbringing, to people who physically find homosexual sex disgusting, to people who brim with an inexplicable rage toward gays.

Combine them all and you find that about half of the population thinks homosexuality is morally wrong (with intolerance skewing higher among older respondents, obviously). There is just no scientific criteria for which of those people are suffering from "homophobia."

It sounds like we're splitting hairs, but it's a great example of the kind of problem people run into when they decide to play amateur psychologist and "diagnose" the people around them. Remember, the guy who's spouting a particularly venomous anti-gay diatribe may be covering up for his own confused homosexuality, and may deserve only your pity. But there's a very good chance that he's simply a dick.

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