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[–]MyLongestJourney 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The fact that it's a small school and I know a lot of people well enough to know their sexuality.

What are your sexuality determining criteria ?

The fact that there are so few females there (my school is something like 70:30) makes me think there should be a greater proportion of dykes than in the general population, but it appears to be even smaller.

Why should be a greater proportion of homosexual women there,solely on the basis of the female students female percentage?

[–]redgreenblue[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

What are your sexuality determining criteria ?

Whether or not she starts going on about her boyfriend or how bi she is lol.

Why should be a greater proportion of homosexual women there,solely on the basis of the female students female percentage?

Because as gays naturally socialize with straight females, dykes naturally socialize with straight males. Also, this is a STEM school and dykes are highly overrepresented in STEM. All the "first woman to X" in science were lesbians.

[–]MyLongestJourney 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The above are just hypotheses. Also,I wish homosexual women were "overrepresented in STEM" !

[–]redgreenblue[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They're actually all facts.

The brains of lesbians functioning more similarly to straight men is well-documented, as is the opposite for gays. I can point you to several studies if you'd like. But as far as lesbians being overrepresented in STEM:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dawnstaceyennis/2020/11/30/the-new-stem-gap-study-confirms-gay-men-are-less-likely-than-straight-men-to-be-in-stem-fields/

“We observe that a larger share of women in same-sex couples are in STEM occupations than women in different-sex couples.”

This along with the main focus of the paper, which is that gays are a lot less likely to be in STEM than straight males, makes me wonder why my immediate environment is so different.