Archive for category: Fagonomics

Lesbian and gay economics

Best and worst fagonomics articles (2021)    (2021.09.07)

An amazingly original piece of work devised a theory of which jobs gay men and lesbians would choose. Running through a set of statistical surveys, what jobs did the authors identify as typical of gay men and lesbians? You’ll never guess!

Let’s see if Douglas Murray gets naomiwolfed    (2019.11.25)

Douglas Murray gets a fact about gay men’s incomes and earnings consequentially wrong in his Madness of Crowds. When Naomi Wolf did something similar, her book got cancelled by its American publisher. But what shall befall Douglas Murray? Well, nothing, of course

The ‘Times’ lies about us once more    (2019.05.11)

“Same-sex couples earn significantly more money than their straight counterparts,” writes John “Not Hob” Koblin in the Times.

No, they do not

Gay-money research disproves intersectionality theory    (2018.10.08)

A new research paper shows that “Black” and “Latinx” gays and lesbians are sometimes less poor and more likely to own their own homes than White ones. (So much for “intersectionality”)

Fagonomics update    (2017.10.26)

Two studies that show gay males earn slightly more than hetero males

Gay marriage in the U.S. has become a luxury good    (2017.03.29)

U.S. Department of the Treasury data show that gay marriage in the U.S. is a great perq to have if you’re doing well already

Elon Green, literati’s cyberbully    (2014.10.11)

The social-justice warrior’s cries of sexism do not justify worsening actual health or threatening human life

A sudden rash of lesbian lying about gay men’s “disposable income”    (2014.08.27)

Julie Bindel and Rachel Swan should know better than to publish falsehoods about gay men’s incomes

Gaybros’ majors    (2014.05.21)

What do those fascinating but prickly gaybros major in? Yes, they really do choose science and technology more often