Okay, this isn't really a very serious question, but I thought it would be interesting to see people's thoughts on the matter.
In general, homophobia means fear of or hostility towards homosexuality, right? But if we look at the etymology of the word: "h omo-", Greek prefix meaning "the same", and "-phobia", Greek suffix meaning "fear". So technically, homophobia means "fear of things that are similar". Bearing this in mind, does that mean the heterophobia is fear of straight people or fear of things that are different? I know that it doesn't really exist, but supposing that it did, which would it be?
2007-10-01
03:58:04
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Iggy
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