Quiddity
UndertheInfluenceofGiants
Radio Frequency X said:Because, there was an adjective involved. Every brain is trained to consider adjectives. Homosexuality entails an adjective, "gay", for which certain ideas, concepts, stereotypes, and mental-images are associated. The same is true of the words "heterosexual", "african", "arab", "clean-cut", "rudeboy", "thug", "native-american", and so on.
It's simply not psychologically possible to have no association. Even if you are a homosexual, how could you not self-identify? How could you not see yourself, but other people, randomly, and without association?
I'm glad I asked. Well said.