Gaydar

It's in the Dictionary now.  Even straight people think they know what it means:  "The peculiar sixth sense by which gay men recognize one another ('s gayness)."  [Nota bene:  (1) Gaydar is never properly attributed to straight men (naturally--although it is significant, I think, how many straight men do in fact possess it), or to straight women or Lesbians; and (2) the implications of its being very nearly a peculiarly gay male faculty are shied away from by both straight men and women with the hysterical compulsiveness of those on whom a very inconvenient truth is dawning.]  What I'm saying is:  That ain't the half of what is perceived by Gaydar.  Back to its being a "peculiar sixth sense"--What we're talking about here is Gay Sensibility.  What Modern Science and Neural Anatomy are beginning to grasp is that gay men's brains are different, differently wired, with more connections between the hemispheres than straight men's--or women's.  Gay men's perceptions, compared to straight men's, and more so even than women's, are stereo-optic and holistic, vs. mono-optic and focal/exclusionary:  They flatter/kid themselves less than straight men, and they have an "uncanny" ability (akin to depth-perception) to sense/see what's there. This understanding is implicit in Socrates' little disquisition on how men's appearances usually reflect their real (inner/ideal) natures, but not always.  Meaning that he, Socrates, was comfortable in an everyday way with his own up-and-functioning Gaydar. The same understanding is explicit in Alcibiades' characterization of Socrates in the Symposium.  

So, returning to the modern world, the reason we "gay activists and politicists" have, in Camille Paglia's happy phrase, such utter "contempt for psychology" [the "psychology," she plainly means, of Freud, Jung, Adler, Neumann, Erikson, etc.; i.e., heterosexualist, iatric, Viennese "Depth Psychology"], is that, having ultra-percipient Gay Sensibility, or, if you will, Gaydar, we see through the insanity, irrelevance, and obfuscation of her "psychology" to the malicious, fraudulent mendacity at its core.  Contempt is the least of it.  That's just what we dismiss it with. Hatred and desire to Destroy are what we feel when we have to deal with it.