Pressure to keep up: status imbalance
a major factor in stress in gay men
Guardian [U.K.],
by
Benjamin Ryan
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
2/29/2020 11:39:09 AM
The persistence of mental health hardships among gay and bisexual men, which endure even as LGBTQ people gain greater acceptance and civil rights, can be explained at least in part by the corrosive effects of status consciousness, competitiveness and racism within the gay community itself. Those are the striking and potentially controversial findings of a study published in January in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology that may broaden appreciation of the unique stressors faced by gay and bisexual men. Gay and lesbian people have a more than fourfold higher rate of suicide than the general population. Among transgender people, the gulf is even wider.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
TexaTucky 2/29/2020 11:55:36 AM (No. 332897)
Misleading headline ignores the fact written in the article itself:
"Pachankis and his colleagues found that the stress gay and bisexual men reported experiencing related to their community’s preoccupation with sex."
Period. Full stop. The end.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Strike3 2/29/2020 12:05:32 PM (No. 332908)
In my experience, gay people overcompensate for their abnormality by being outwardly happy and bubbly all of the time. Then you have the stressed-out biatches like Barack Obama who feel the need to scold, scorn and treat all others not like them on a condescending, hateful way. Just like Forrest Gump's chocolates you never know what you're going to get. My philosophy is live and let live but too many of them are not satisfied with that.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
jj1319 2/29/2020 12:07:48 PM (No. 332909)
Gays got it made, as far as I can tell. Everywhere I look people are bending over backward to accommodate all things perverse.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 2/29/2020 12:13:09 PM (No. 332915)
Oh fer Chrissake. They’re stressed out because they’re constantly preoccupied with their abnormalities.
Previous posters are right - they’re mentally ill.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Northcross 2/29/2020 12:26:55 PM (No. 332939)
The last paragraph from #6 is profound.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
fourpmfox 2/29/2020 12:31:33 PM (No. 332945)
They would have far fewer problems if their homosexuality was not the first thing they wanted you to know about them.......
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
red1066 2/29/2020 12:34:49 PM (No. 332951)
Being gay is all about sex. It's all it's ever been. It's an abnormal belief, and abnormal behavior. Fighting to make people think it's normal when innately most people know it's not, causes stress. Trying to live an abnormal life when all around you people are living a socially acceptable life takes it's toll.
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Everybody's a victim.....
Do these people think they are the only ones who face challenges in their daily lives?!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
LadyHen 2/29/2020 1:06:00 PM (No. 332973)
fta: "As the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology paper describes, men in all global cultures are inclined toward competitiveness and driven by a need to prove their manhood. Thus, any subculture composed entirely of the male sex – think the NFL or a frat house – is likely to be intrinsically status conscious.
Within gay male culture, such competition is compounded by the fact that members compete for social and sexual gain and for sex with each other."
With men and women, it's the eternal battle of the sexes. Men and women, while competitive can commiserate with their friends about their separate anxieties and take comfort. But when both parties are on the same team, there really is no team, just competition. All the psycho craziness of both sexes in one package. The most catty and vain humans I have met have been homosexual men. This is not as intended!!!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 2/29/2020 1:07:07 PM (No. 332974)
I find this hard to believe. Every homosexual on TV is bright, bubbly, smart, accepting and accepted, funny and always cheerful. The person everyone turns to when there is a problem, be it a teen-ager having boyfriend/girlfriend problems or an adult with problems with the spouse, They always have the answer.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
previouslyon24 2/29/2020 1:08:45 PM (No. 332977)
So tired of the totally disproportional amount of articles and media about LGBTect the leftist media covers, for a group that represents only 2-3% of the population (unless we're talking San Francisco). But then the leftist/commie media and Hollywood is disproportionately populated with these unusual people, "unusual" being used as a description because it means what it says when 97% of the population is different from them in a usual, normal state. In a one on one basis they can be treated with respect and empathy, which is the conservative manner. But we're supposed to treat them as a group like they're just like us, when they clearly aren't. Face it leftists, your generalized victim groups are starting to crowd out the other victim groups you've highlighted the past three decades. What to do? Implode as you are now doing because you can't keep track of the conflicts. Leftist, high-emotion media such as the Guardian will continue to cover stories because they can't help themselves; they're as mentally imbalanced as the subjects they want to cover.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
stablemoney 2/29/2020 1:14:19 PM (No. 332980)
The country should celebrate the fact that at least white straight men have no problems. Everyone else does, and the media informs us they are getting worse.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Highlander 2/29/2020 2:04:24 PM (No. 333019)
Gays always let you know up front their sexual orientation. I have yet to meet a gay who kept it to himself. How about I tell everybody I meet, “By the way, I’m straight!”
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 2/29/2020 2:50:24 PM (No. 333047)
#6 really gets to the heart of the matter; the God-shaped hole in their souls can never be filled because their focus is on transforming their abnormality into normality. Their identity as a human being is directly tied to their sexual preference and therefore they attempt to equate their activity to the fertility-centered heterosexual union, something that is impossible. A father and a mother produce children, and subsequent grandchildren. The coupling of men and women keep the human race a going concern. Sexual union between heterosexuals have a meaning and purpose that same-sex hanky-panky can never equal. Homosexuals and lesbians (and whatever else) do not have families in which to invest their time, talents and love over a lifespan. Instead they buy fancy houses, expensive cars and take exotic vacations in a vain attempt to give some sort of meaning to their lives.
Our rural subdivision is only 150 miles north of San Francisco and out of 20 permanent residents we have one single gay, one gay couple and four lesbians couples. Twenty years ago when we were all new owners and building our houses we had great fun with lots of get-togethers at each other's temp cabins exchanging info on septic tanks and well pumps. For the first ten years we would celebrate the major holidays at each others now-finished homes. After Obama was elected that all changed and we were constantly challenged because we were active in the Tea Party; how could we belong to a racist and homophobic group? They only do a "holiday gathering" now and the last one I suffered through was six years ago. We're polite if we run into each other at the gate or in town, and that's just fine with me.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
chance_232 2/29/2020 4:20:28 PM (No. 333091)
Im calling BS on this. The problem that Ive seen in the "community" is the refusal to grow up, attend all the parties, and never ever get old. With that group, its about looking as good as possible for as long as possible for the purposes of, yes, sex.
Those NOT in the community go about their lives just like everyone else. Well adjusted gay men dont frequent bars, dont care about fashion, could care less what some body conscious twink thinks of them.
These people happen to be gay. Its not who they are. They dont lisp, they are construction workers, police and firemen, doctors and farmers.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
lakerman1 2/29/2020 4:53:06 PM (No. 333104)
#3, you you just wrote the pun of the year, perhaps without realizing it.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
DVC 2/29/2020 6:35:52 PM (No. 333154)
So, knowing that you are an abnormal sexual pervert, and knowing that people are disgusted by your lifestyle choices causes you stress?
Yep, sounds about right.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
MickTurn 2/29/2020 10:04:04 PM (No. 333252)
Kinda hard to run fast while prancing...just say'in...
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
paral04 3/1/2020 9:54:08 AM (No. 333521)
Maybe the logic here needs to be reversed and the mental issues are not because they are gay, but they are gay because of mental issues.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
franq 3/1/2020 10:02:24 AM (No. 333536)
Keep your proclivities to yourself. Please. I still get rainbow emails from time to time at work. Have asked them to stop it. Big corporation, gotta keep the diversity cred.
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Essentially, the research says that homosexuality is a mental illness. Their stresses come from not being "gay" enough or not having enough sex per the self-defined norms of the gay community, rather than the usual excuse that straight people cause their misfortunes.