2006-07-17 10:43:30 · 12 answers · asked by Kai 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
I am not homophobic. I am actually phobic of religious zealots who try to impose their views on everyone else. I would rather spend the rest of my life with 10 gay men than 10 pastors or priests, because at least I know that the gay men would have some respect for what I believed as well as being welcoming should I ever want to join their ranks.
People who are homophobic have no understanding of the gay or lesbian lifestyle and seem to focus only on sex. Would these people rather think about their heterosexual parents having sex?
Life does not come down to sex, life comes down to love and acceptance and coexistence.
2006-07-17 11:37:11 · answer #1 · answered by tim15roth 2 · 6⤊ 0⤋
(Non homophobic, gay male here)
You know I've heard a new word, that I think needs to go into our vocabulary. "Heterosexist." This is a person who is not necessarily afraid (phobic) of homosexuality, but who sees the world from a totally Hetero point of view. Sometimes it is simple, like making an invitation to a party or gathering, he'll tell all the men they can bring "your wife or girlfriend," ignoring the fact that some people have a significant other that fits neither or those. Sometimes it's more hurtful, like asking the gay guy to work on Christmas Eve, because, after all, you don't have a family.
Heterosexists very often are not mean, or don't even intend to be hurtful or unfeeling for LBGT people, but since they see the world only Thur heterosexual eyes, they have no clue.
By the way, we has homosexuals (bi and tran too) can sometimes fail to see the world through the heteros eyes, too.
2006-07-17 11:55:08 · answer #2 · answered by michael941260 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. See I have gotten to the point where I do realize it is completely normal and that they should have rights to marriage just as anyone else does but I just can't get comfortable with 2 men or 2 women having sex. I don't know if it is just because I grew up in a homophobic home or if I am just no comfortable with sex in general or if it is because it isn't as publicized (shown all over TV) as straight sex is. I 'm not sure what it is exactly it just makes me uncomfortable.
2006-07-17 10:48:19 · answer #3 · answered by 20mommy05 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The word homophobia means fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against homosexuality or homosexuals. It can also mean hatred of and disparagement of homosexual people, their lifestyles, their sexual behaviors, or cultures, and is generally used to assert bigotry.
Now I think that neatly describes the anti-gay comments previous to mine. I do not define myself as gay, but at the same time I do not feel the need to discriminate against people who do. Therefore the short of it is, often people who are the most homophobic do not regard themselves as such a) because they do not fully understand what it is and b) because they don't suppose for a moment that their views could be challenged and therefore have the potential to be wrong.
2006-07-17 11:02:10 · answer #4 · answered by waggy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Homophobia is a funny word. Psychologically speaking, it should mean that a person has an irrational fear of something...such as agoraphobia or pyrophobia.
Actually, homophobia is a politically correct term (improperly using the suffix -phobia) to refer to anyone who disapproves of or dislikes folks who are gay.
Personally, I disapprove of premarital sex....but I am not phobic of it. I disapprove of having someone use my toothbrush...it grosses me out, but I am not phobic of it. I disapprove of a lot of things without being phobic of them. I'm not phobic, in the true sense of the word, of much, if anything.
I do not approve of smoking marijuana, since it is against the law. I am not phobic of it and I have friends who smoke marijuana illegally. I also do not approve of homosexuality, but I am not phobic of it. I have friends who are gay.
That's my practical answer for you. I think that it is easier for most people to just dismiss everyone who disagrees with them as being phobic or some other all-inclusive term.
Opinions are like bellybuttons, though, and that's mine...opinion, that is...not bellybutton.
Edit note: I agree with whoever said the word "aversion." That would describe my feelings. I am averted to the idea of guys with guys and girls with girls.
2006-07-17 11:00:17 · answer #5 · answered by scruffycat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
whoever made up the word homophobic? means having a fear of homos. I dont have any fear of homos, but my soul abhors what they do and practice.
2006-07-17 10:47:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This may sound wierd but yea at times i can be.... But also i am a lesbain i dont understand it myself i think i dont feel comfortable with it totaly myself so its easier to judge someone else...
2006-07-17 11:32:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not homophobic.
Not straight-o-phobic, either.
I just have an aversion to straight sex.
2006-07-17 14:20:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just popping in and saying something, homophobia is not fear of gays, it's aversion to them.
Clarification. (=
2006-07-17 10:59:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it means you are scared of homosexuals
2006-07-17 11:03:06 · answer #10 · answered by azngrlrocks 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋