{"id":20927,"date":"2010-04-22T10:48:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T15:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=20927"},"modified":"2013-12-15T03:26:44","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T08:26:44","slug":"survey-finds-different-levels-of-acceptance-for-gays-versus-homosexuals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/04\/22\/survey-finds-different-levels-of-acceptance-for-gays-versus-homosexuals\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey Finds Different Levels of Acceptance for “Gays” Versus “Homosexuals”"},"content":{"rendered":"

A recent CBS\/New York Times poll<\/a> reveals how words matter. They asked 500 respondents how they felt about permitting “homosexuals” to serve in the military; then they asked a different 500 how they felt about “gays\/lesbians” serving in the military.\u00a0 It turns out, people like gays and lesbians more than they like homosexuals:<\/p>\n

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Also in words: frankenfoods<\/a>, atomic<\/a>, soda vs. pop<\/a>, tradition<\/a>, hispanic<\/a>, feminism<\/a>, woman<\/a>, average<\/a>,\u00a0nurse<\/a>, George Lakoff on metaphor<\/a>, professional<\/a>, Jon Steward on re-branding<\/a>, development<\/a>, organic<\/a>, the third world<\/a>, man vs. girl<\/a>, natural<\/a>, honorifics<\/a>, Africa<\/a>, dithering<\/a>, terrorism<\/a>, the rape<\/a> and other violent<\/a> metaphors, and flesh-colored<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And also see our post on the war against “gay.”<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0(Poll discovered via Montclair SocioBlog<\/a>.)<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A recent CBS\/New York Times poll reveals how words matter. They asked 500 respondents how they felt about permitting “homosexuals” to serve in the military; then they asked a different 500 how they felt about “gays\/lesbians” serving in the military.\u00a0 It turns out, people like gays and lesbians more than they like homosexuals: Also in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23384,693,54],"class_list":["post-20927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-social-construction-discourselanguage","tag-public-opinion","tag-sexual-orientation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20927"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60291,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20927\/revisions\/60291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}