When skimming the Science Daily, I came upon an article that stuck out to me and believe it could be related to Section Two, Reading E in our Introduction to Women's Studies text book. The article is titled "Facial symmetry may play a role in 'gaydar'", here is the link: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120121120109.htm
In a study done at Albright College in Pennsylvania, it was believed that facial symmetry or the lack of it could be a genetic link to homosexuality. Consisting of photographs of 60 sexually self-identified people, 15 heterosexual men; 15 homosexual men, 15 heterosexual women and 15 homosexual women, they were judged on a scale which indicated what gender they most seemingly would be attracted to. The "judgement" was done by looking at facial features, but specifically symmetry. "We found differences in measures of facial symmetry between self-identified heterosexual and homosexual individuals," says Hughes. Personally this whole acquisition surprised me, because I don't believe that the features of one's face could actually influence one's perceptions of another's sexuality. I believe that the experiment's sexual orientation and correlation to facial symmetry in the photograph is weak and could not be supported by anything scientific, more so by just judgments and maybe stereotypes. To me it does not say much in the name of science. Ultimately I feel it's just a study that is trying to label homosexuality as something that is perhaps not normal, and I don't find truth in it.
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