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Google, Tell Me. Is He Gay?: Masculinity, Heterosexuality, and Gendered Anxieties in Google Search Queries about Sexuality
Abstract
It is difficult to gauge people’s acceptance about same-sex sexualities, as responses to questionnaires are prone to social desirability bias. We offer a new proxy for understanding popular concern surrounding same-sex sexualities: prevalence of Google searches demonstrating concern over gay/lesbian sexual identities. Using Google Trends data, we find that Google searches about whether a specific person is gay or lesbian show patterned bias towards masculine searches, in that such searches are much more frequently conducted about boys and men compared to girls and women. We put these findings into context by comparing search frequencies with other popular Google searches about sexuality and otherwise. We put forth that the patterned bias towards masculine searches illustrates support for the enduring relationship between masculinity and heterosexuality, and that it does so on a larger scale than previous research has been able to establish.
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People turn to Google to ask whether their male relatives are 'gay' at consistently higher rates than analogous searches regarding their female relatives.
“people turn to Google to ask whether their sons, dads, boyfriends, husbands, brothers, and other boys/men are 'gay' at consistently higher rates than analogous searches regarding their daughters, moms, girlfriends, wives, sisters, or other girls/women.”
From Intersections between Sexual Identity, Sexual Attraction, and Sexual Behavior among a Nationally Representative Sample of American Men and Women (2019) · cites this paper as Mishel et al. 2018
Because men's heterosexuality is seen as more precarious and more difficult to uphold than women's heterosexuality, people question the heterosexuality of men and boys in their life more frequently than the women and girls they know.
“because men's heterosexuality is seen as more precarious and more difficult to uphold than women's heterosexuality, it follows that people would question the heterosexuality of men and boys in their life more frequently than the women and girls they know.”
From Intersections between Sexual Identity, Sexual Attraction, and Sexual Behavior among a Nationally Representative Sample of American Men and Women (2019) · cites this paper as Mishel et al. 2018
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Overdoing Gender: A Test of the Masculine Overcompensation Thesis
Willer, R., Rogalin, C. L., Conlon, B., & Wojnowicz, M. T. (2013) · American Journal of Sociology · doi:10.1086/668417 · Cited by 366
Mishel, E. (2019) · Journal of Official Statistics · doi:10.2478/jos-2019-0036 · Cited by 64
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Mishel, E. (2019) · Journal of Official Statistics · doi:10.2478/jos-2019-0036 · Cited by 64
“Mishel et al. (2018) argue that because men’s heterosexuality is seen as more precarious and more difficult to uphold than women’s heterosexuality, it follows that people would question the heterosexuality of men and boys in their life more frequently than the women and girls they know.”
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- Authors
- Mishel, E., Bridges, T., & Caudillo, M. L.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Santa Barbara (US)
- Publisher
- Center for Open Science
- Published
- 2018-11-08
- OpenAlex
- W4230348900
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- 2
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- 3
- Citations by year
- 2020: 1 · 2019: 1
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- posted content
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- SocArXiv (OSF Preprints) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender and Feminist Studies
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender Roles and Identity Studies
- Keywords
- Google search queries, masculinity, heterosexuality, homosexuality, social desirability bias
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