“But I see this dynamic all the time in real life.” “Critics think it’s just a stereotype and you only see this in the media,” says Russell.
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There’s even a series of YouTube videos from the comedy group Second City showing how a number of famous straight women from literature – think Juliet, Lady MacBeth and Charles Dickens’ Miss Havisham – could have benefited from a “sassy gay friend.” It’s a dynamic well-documented in movies, literature and pop culture, says Russell, pointing to famous gay guy-straight gal friendships like Will and Grace and Kurt and Rachel from Glee. The questions – designed to determine the level of trust test subjects had for each gender/sexual preference – were crucial to the person’s “game.” Was Jordan to be trusted when it came to fashion advice? Would Jordan tell you if you had something stuck in your teeth before talking to a cute guy at the party? In the second study, gay men were presented with the exact same scenario except the Facebook profile depicted Jordan as either a straight woman, a gay woman or a gay man. Researchers asked the women to look up a Facebook profile for Jordan - who was presented as either a straight woman, a straight man or a gay man – and then answer a series of questions. In one, straight women were presented with a scenario involving a party, a friend who bags out at the last minute and a substitute “date” named Jordan.
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To test his hypothesis, Russell enlisted the help of 88 straight women and 58 gay men, all undergrads from the Texas ChristianUniversity, and conducted two experiments. Russell wondered if it had something to do with the exchange of mating advice since gay men and straight women aren’t romantic partners or mating competition and were “uniquely positioned to exchange trustworthy information.”