, I understand the reasons why. We have friends who have been couples for 25 years yet they have no right to each others estates if they were to die. I also only ever hear the word homophobe - which is absurd. When I mention the work heterophobe i get laughed as as if only one side has fears issues.
2006-11-12 00:30:57 · 15 answers · asked by Micron1900 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
You're right A lot of gays are heterophobic. This means that they secretly crave straight sex. They have an irrational fear of straight sex and are afraid of being turned straight by contact with straights. By the way, anybody can leave anybody else their stuff in a will so this marriage caffuffle is just a bunch of smoke and mirrors.
2006-11-12 07:18:49 · answer #1 · answered by georgeewert 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Discrimination and phobia never works just one way. However, I personally have seen a lot more cases where a gay will accept a straight more often than the other way around...therefore homophobia is more prevalent, which is why heterophobic is not a common word, or a common idea.
And why should gay society come up with a 'different' word to define exactly what the word marriage defines? It's a union between two people. Does it have to do with sex? Well, I know a lot of straight couples who are married but don't have sex, does that make them not married anymore? I think it was a mistake for the government to ever get involved in the first place with marriages, gay or straight. Marriage should be a spiritual commitment, not a legal one.
2006-11-12 08:38:22 · answer #2 · answered by Arlene06 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Lots of gays are heterophobic for the same reason that lots or straights are homophobic, they're bigots. To answer the other part, it isn't your word. Marriage has existed in some shape or form in all cultures, just because one form of it limits it to a man and woman does mean others do.
2006-11-12 16:16:16 · answer #3 · answered by Rageling 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You need to first understand that marriage isn't a homosexual word. Here is the definition: A marriage is a relationship between or among individuals, usually recognized by civil authority and/or bound by the religious beliefs of the participants. The fact that marriage often has the dual nature of a binding legal contract plus a moral promise can make it difficult to characterize.
I don't know of any of my gay friends who are so-called heterophobes. You seem to be stereotyping one or two that you may have encountered. Most peopel in the GLBT community are not scared of straight people one bit.
2006-11-12 09:48:11 · answer #4 · answered by gc27858 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yours.. ours.... us ... them.... (sigh)
You are making generalizations.
Having a right to each others estates is only one reason for gay marriage. What about the right to take care for someone after a heavy accident? What about the right to be taken seriously when it comes to a lifetime commitment of love?
Homophobia is absurd, but very much existing. There are probably some gay people who are heterophobes, which is just as absurd.
As long as people keep on thinking in 'we' and 'them' instead of just accepting each other, and accepting our differences, people will never see how much we all actually have in common.
2006-11-12 09:14:03 · answer #5 · answered by Bloed 6 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Breaders. You're all the same. Just another playa hater.
The original meaning for marriage was an economic and contractual term that can only be agreed to after the fathers of the bride and groom was satisfied with the the dowry and other negotiated financial rights. It conferred an agreement that the bride would have no claim to money or property owned by her parents. It was, in fact, more a form of slavery with women as property.
Nice history, right? Use the word in good health. After watching your divorce rate skyrocket, and the way Britney and others of your kind use "marriage"... you've soiled it.
2006-11-12 09:10:40 · answer #6 · answered by jackwasthere 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Whatever valid points you made (and you made some very sound ones), your question is dismissed because not resting on the merits you throw in the the VERY childish, petulant and bombastic "heterophobic". Perhaps you thought you were being clever, but really you just were dismissed as foolish.
All gay people have straight friends and family they love and support. If there are any that fear or loath straight folks, they probably have larger issues not based on orientation.
The only "phobe" that might apply is "bigot-phobia" and even then, we are so used to that foolishness from the haters, we laugh at them rather than fear them.
Really, it is a shame you resorted to name calling, when you made a valid argument, but I dismiss you as being just another bombastic straight person that is content in their own smug trite view on life.
Next!
2006-11-12 09:22:34 · answer #7 · answered by jack b 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
What do gays have to be heterophobic about? They may have issues with a society that doesn't quite accept them but that doesn't make this a phobia. Whereas hetero males can be very homophobic. I have been in bars with guys who freak out completely if they think a guy is looking at them. They get crazy.
Now that is phobic!
2006-11-12 08:34:36 · answer #8 · answered by Gone fishin' 7 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Gays aren't heterophobic, they neither fear nor intentionally attack heterosexuals for being heterosexual.
Marriage does not "belong" to you. A Union entered into out of love and the desire to mutually protect/provide for each other is called marriage. Separate but equal is not constitutional. Trying to make up a new word to call "marriage" is called segregation.
2006-11-12 08:38:51 · answer #9 · answered by IndyT- For Da Ben Dan 6 · 5⤊ 3⤋
im not heretophobic. why are u mad at len *pokes u* i love boys *pokes u again* watch out, u might catch my gay. *blinks cutely at u*
i love my nickie and he loves me, its true love and u only have to see the way we look into each others eyes to know that. ⥠i dont see how any thing else is so important
2006-11-12 09:57:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋