RE: How would you react to a gay person who found you TOTALLY repulsive ?
September 27, 2015 at 9:15 pm
(September 27, 2015 at 7:14 pm)vorlon13 Wrote:(September 27, 2015 at 3:12 pm)Losty Wrote: Why would anyone be so cruel as to say they found me repulsive when a simple "I'm not attracted to you" would do? I would assume ulterior motives. People usually don't go out of their way to hurt someone's feelings for no reason.
Theoretically, some of the unenlightened would be relieved to have absolutely no sex appeal to a potential same sex partner.
Most of my male relatives, for instance . .
I'd even bet there are guys out there that would be interested in knowing how to dress and act to further lower their potential appeal.
The thing is, I would imagine that if a man were totally repulsive to gay men, he would likely also be repulsive to straight women. If you want, you can set up a poll in a new thread with links to pictures of famous actors (with some of them unattractive), and have gay men and straight women rate them (so the poll options would be something like, "I am a gay man and Mr. X is attractive," "I am a gay man and Mr. X is repulsive," "I am a gay man and Mr. X is neither very attractive nor very repulsive," "I am a straight woman and Mr. X is attractive," etc.). My guess is that if done on a large enough scale (to avoid the results being skewed by outliers), for the most part, the men who are most attractive to gay men would also be attractive to straight women, and the ones most repulsive to gay men would be repulsive to straight women.
Now I am thinking maybe an online search for such a thing might be in order, to see if this has been tested or not.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.