{"id":40448,"date":"2017-10-12T04:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T08:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=40448"},"modified":"2017-10-11T08:34:05","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T12:34:05","slug":"that-time-canada-tried-to-make-a-literal-gaydar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/10\/12\/that-time-canada-tried-to-make-a-literal-gaydar\/","title":{"rendered":"That Time Canada Tried to Make a Literal &#8220;Gaydar&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6dmTREoebY4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Today I Found Out<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 10 Oct 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week!<\/p>\n<p>In this video:<\/p>\n<p>We are all familiar with the colloquialism \u201cgaydar\u201d which refers to a person\u2019s intuitive, and often wildly inaccurate, ability to assess the sexual orientation of another person. In the 1960s, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) attempted to use a slightly more scientific, though equally flawed, approach- a machine to detect if a person was gay or not.  This was in an attempt to eliminate homosexuals from the Canadian military, police and civil service. The specific machine, dubbed the \u201cFruit Machine\u201d, was invented by Dr. Robert Wake, a Carelton University Psychology professor.<\/p>\n<p>Want the text version?: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2013\/06\/when-the-canadian-government-used-gay-detectors-to-try-to-get-rid-of-homosexual-government-employees\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2013\/06\/when-the-canadian-government-used-gay-detectors-to-try-to-get-rid-of-homosexual-government-employees\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I Found Out Published on 10 Oct 2017 Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! In this video: We are all familiar with the colloquialism \u201cgaydar\u201d which refers to a person\u2019s intuitive, and often wildly inaccurate, ability to assess the sexual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,84,7],"tags":[311,448,196,567,334],"class_list":["post-40448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-government","category-history","tag-1960s","tag-canadianforces","tag-lgbt","tag-rcmp","tag-security"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-awo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40449,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40448\/revisions\/40449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}