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How do you figure it's not the norm if it is seen across many species. Usually that is the definition of normal, like how we can say it is normal for social animals to bond through sex.
the idea being implied is that the spirit=mind is more fluid than expectation of form.
Most cultures were "homophobic", generally speaking, and still are. It's not really based in religion, but sex roles. It's viewed as unmanly and unwomanly. That's the real basis of anti-homosexual attitudes you see around the world.
Phobias aren't based on popularity or dominant expressions in a culture or species.
So please, do tell us where the abnormal and irrational intolerance and prejudice for heterosexuality is? Because that is the application of -phobia in terms of homophobia. What bills are being written to limit and discriminate against straight people?
A phobia is something irrational towards anything.
That is a definition of it, and you're getting hung up on that. In the terms being used - homophobia and "heterophobia" - -phobia is used as mistreatment and prejudice which is (applicable of the given definition) born of misunderstanding and fear of "the other". Minorities that are outside the social norm and majorities for sexualities, religions, and ethnicities. Heterosexuality is the socially dominant sexuality, and ergo "heterophobia" is absolutely ridiculous, and not a thing.
Native tribes celebrate "two spirit" people and often make them shamans.
Some animals are monogamous. They only mate with their own kind. Some avians for example.
Yes. Seems to be consistent across a lot of different cultures
Heterophobia
Womp womp.
You need to recognize that language evolves. You must understand this for this conversation to continue productively. Social phobias (homophobia, islamophobia, etc) are not the same as psychological phobias (arachnophobia, agoraphobia, acrophobia, etc). It does not suggest that someone is paralyzed in fear by the thought of being around homosexuals, or Muslims, or whatever else have you simply by the fact of their sexuality or religion. It denotes a hatred or prejudice and discrimination based on a social fear (fear of the unknown) that has little to no basis in rational fact.
I have no disagreement there; I do not think homosexuality is unnatural. Which is why I'm not weighing in against that; I am addressing the misnomer of "heterophobia" and eventual list of other nonsensical "phobias against normal stuff" that's bound to come up whenever homophobia is mentioned.
Yeah, a lot of cultures had "third gender" concepts. That doesn't mean they were necessarily treated well or that they approved of homosexual relationships. They tend to be still treated as outcasts. The "two-spirit" thing has been appropriated by the LGBT movement and romanticized by activists, so I wouldn't go by modern views of it as reflective of how it was actually was for those tribes. I've seen a lot of fake "natives" labeling themselves as such.
Hijras in India and muxes in Mexico tend to be treated fairly horribly, for example. It's the same crap you see around the world where feminine males are treated badly. They're poor and often have to resort to prostitution. I know people want to blame everything on the Abrahamic religions but go be gay or trans in an African tribe that still practices traditional African religion, or in China and see where that gets you. The Pagan Norse looked down on it too ("ergi", which was their equivalent of "****** "). Tribal peoples tend to have strict sex roles.