THINGS THE DIFFERENT SEXES LIKE

(August 2013) OKCupid searched through millions of user profiles to pick out the most commonly used phrases correlated to a particular sexual preference. Here’s what they came up with:

Things gay men like (in order of what came up most often):
– The Devil Wears Prada
– Britney Spears
– Mean Girls
– Kelly Clarkson
– The Color Purple
– Project Runway
– Drop Dead Gorgeous
– Running With Scissors (the book./movie)
– The theater
– Katy Perry
– Buffy The Vampire Slayer
– Joni Mitchel
– Owl City
– David Sedaris
– American Idol
– Harry Potter
– Angels in America
– Modern Family
– The Perks of Being a Wallflower
– Maroon 5
– Gossip Girl
– Moulin Rouge
– X Men
– Six Feet Under
– Justin Timberlake
– Black Eyed Peas
– Michael Buble
– Ella Fitzgerald
– All American Rejects
– Final Fantasy
– The Rocky Horror Picture Show
– Cuddling
– Jason Mraz
– Kill Bill
* Wow, way to reinforce some stereotypes. This is a big help.
* Gay men like the theater? Well, there goes that myth.
* Harry Potter? I guess gay men like the way Harry waves his wand around.
* Wow, normally you’d have to turn to the NSA to get this level of snooping.
* Sounds like Kelly Clarkson is the new Barbra Streisand

Things straight men like:
– Band of Brothers
– Poker
– Cars
– My Boat
– Saving Private Ryan
– Hunting
– Fishing
– Golf
– Sports
– Ping Pong
– Engineering
– Rock
– Working out
– Playing Pool
– Burn Notice
– Law Enforcement
– Breaking Bad
– Tom Clancy
– Apocalypse Now
– Queens of the Stone Age
– Full Metal Jacket
– Van Halen
– Taxi Driver
* And THAT is why the word “stereotype” was invented.
* What happened to beer? And pork chops?
* Straight men like a lot of things that end in apostrophes: huntin’, fishin’, workin’ out, playin’ pool, engineerin’, Savin’ Private Ryan’, Van Halen’ …
* Of course, this is also the list of things gay men pretend to like to appear straight.
* In fact, if you like everyone of the things on this list, there’s a 100% chance you’re gay.
* I like the way you can’t even discuss this topic without offending someone.

Things gay women like:
– The L Word
– Tegan and Sara
– Ani DiFranco
– Piercings
– The Color Purple
– Running with Scissors
– The Perks of Being a Wallflower
– Buffy the Vampire Slayer
– Law & Order SVU
– Tori Amos
– Rilo Kiley
– Janis Joplin
– Drop Dead Gorgeous
– Mean Girls
– Rocky Horror Picture Show
– Finding Nemo
– Katy Perry
– Saved by the Bell
– Kelly Clarkson
– Harry Potter
* One thing gay women like is to take forever with the foreplay.
* Fortunately, you can just fast forward the tape to the good parts.
* They like Harry Potter too. Especially the idea of a woman with J.K. Rowling’s money.

Things straight women like:
– My girlfriends
– Lip Gloss
– Pretty Woman
– Nicholas Sparks
– Wine
– Eat Pray Love
– Yoga
– My couch
– Jane Austen
– Dirty Dancing
– High heels
– Baking
– Reading
– Country music
– Gone With the Wind
* Oh my god – I’m a gay woman.
* They also like reminding you you’re not Brad Pitt.
* Reading – I knew “50 Shades of Gray” would show up sooner or later.
* Gee, the second one is lip gloss? Way to keep it sophisticated.
* So THIS is what the government’s going to learn from pouring over our emails?