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Is homophobia natural for the heterosexual male?
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Midnight Pete
Well-Known Member
Homophobia is natural for the heterosexual male. It's what lets us know we're not gay. Just as an aversion to eating human flesh lets us know we're not cannibals. Or just as an aversion to sex with children lets us know we're not pedophiles.
Just because homophobia is a natural impulse for the hetero male does not mean it should be encouraged as a virtue. As a hetero male, I experience homophobia from time to time but I would never say or do anything hurtful towards a gay person. Nor would I justify persecution of homosexuals with religion.
Just because homophobia is a natural impulse for the hetero male does not mean it should be encouraged as a virtue. As a hetero male, I experience homophobia from time to time but I would never say or do anything hurtful towards a gay person. Nor would I justify persecution of homosexuals with religion.
phobia: Definition from Answers.com
- phobia n. A persistent, abnormal, and irrational fear of a specific thing or situation that compels one to avoid it, despite the awareness....
Caladan
Agnostic Pantheist
A confident straight man, who is well grounded in his sexuality, is not bothered by shows of affection between men.
it is the ultra externalized homosexuality which can rub an heterosexual man the wrong way, but then again, when I get to watch the fashion channel, and I look at all the skinny girls and the so called glamor, I think about Auschwitz death camp.
it is the ultra externalized homosexuality which can rub an heterosexual man the wrong way, but then again, when I get to watch the fashion channel, and I look at all the skinny girls and the so called glamor, I think about Auschwitz death camp.
Midnight Pete
Well-Known Member
Dishonest? Maybe. But "unease" and "aversion" don't seem to be adequate here. Can you find a better label?
Maybe there shouldn't be a label for just finding something creepy, icky or wrong.
Midnight Pete
Well-Known Member
Maybe you're right. But visceral responses are subjective, aren't they? What's creepy/icky/wrong for me is normal and natural and right for someone else.
No argument from me on that. I just object to labeling all opposition, prejudice or distaste as a clinical psychiatric disorder.
I'd rather let people take their sides on issues without have a nasty epithet applied to them.
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Lawrence Mills
Member
People that are truely comfortable with themselves usualy don't have as much prejudice in them. It takes way to much energy to hate,why hate someone based on anything other than your pesonal experiance with that person.
Midnight Pete
Well-Known Member
It's called prejudice.
Kilgore Trout
Misanthropic Humanist
Seeing most people have sex, gay or straight, would be probably be rather icky and creepy. Just because it's a man and woman having sex, doesn't mean it's probably not a disgusting sight.
Midnight Pete
Well-Known Member
Is wrong to be sexually aroused by the sight and sound of a woman breastfeeding a baby? I am.
MissAlice
Well-Known Member
Nah I think you have it wrong. It isn't how you think but how you behave.
You try thinking up a few things and not be credited for it..