Originally posted by brutalsun
Originally posted by halfoldman
Alright, homophobia is the focused hatred toward homosexual people.
It is rarely seen as a symptom on its own, but usually accompanies other phobias. A phobia against women and femininity is usually concurrent with it.
Phobia implies a fear of not a hatred of agoraphobia, arachnophobia, hydrophobia. And ism would imply a hatred or at least a point of view... racism,
sexism, socialism, capitalism. A hatred of homosexuals is simply sexism and not a phobia. I think what bothers a lot of people is that for the most
part, people are modest in their sexuality, they rarely display public affection (teens excluded) and find it highly offensive to see a group running
around screaming at the top of their lungs "ACCEPT MY SEXUAL PREFERENCE!" Most people shouldn't and probably DON'T care what you do in the
bedroom, just as you probably don't want to know what I do in mine.
So let me flip your question around on you... what country would anti-straight heterophobes choose?
Well, I'd say with homophobia two things are going on:
- a revulsion at contact with the same sex (outside certain ritualized sport, where men "trying to kill each other" justifies their touching)
- an actual revulsion at gay people (usually because they signify the former reaction)
There is also another possibility: straight men sacrifice a lot to be butch and macho. And suddenly, here comes this queen who implies: "Look at me,
I'm happy, and all your efforts mean nothing to me!"
It's the ultimate mocking.
Furthermore, femininity is even seen as frivolous in women, and it is even more threatening in men.
There is no country as yet, but just as the Jews (and I think the Roma and Kurds should get) gays, lesbians and transgendered people should be given a
country, or piece of land.
For hardcore homophobes I'd say: go to Uganda, Iran or Zimbabwe.
