Why is it assumed that because I am sickened by homosexuals, that I am secretly one?

Question

I am disgusted by beastiality...doesn't mean I secretly want to do a horse.

I am disgusted at the thought of a man having sex with a child(pedophilia),doesn't mean I want to do a 5 year old

I'm disgusted at the thought of a brother and sister having sex with each other (incest), doesn't mean I want to bang my sister

You feel me?

Answer 1

Probably because you are to stupid to deferentiate the difference between homosexuality and beastiality/pedophillia/and incest.
You feel me?

Answer 2

The American Psychological Association has the dirt on you, buster. Behold:

"Study links homophobia with homosexual arousal
Press release, The American Psychological Association

Aug. 1996

WASHINGTON -- Psychoanalytic theory holds that homophobia -- the fear, anxiety, anger, discomfort and aversion that some ostensibly heterosexual people hold for gay individuals -- is the result of repressed homosexual urges that the person is either unaware of or denies. A study appearing in the August 1996 issue of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, published by the American Psychological Association (APA), provides new empirical evidence that is consistent with that theory..."

In other words, more men showing homophobic tendencies show homosexual arousal than do men who do not show homophobic tendencies.

There have been several studies that have shown the same result.

That's why. Now do us all a favor and go find a nice man to have some sex with.

For the full article, follow the link below.

Answer 3

First of all, I'm not trying to insult you, but your name, "Me's Father" kind of cracked me up on the inscest angle, but it just struck me as funny, I don't actually think you are.

The thing is, the acts you described are all violative: they hurt people. When two men or two women fall in love, there is no harm in this, only a regular loving relationship. The reason people think you are gay is because when someone is completely comfortable with their own sexuality, they don't find others' disgusting. As a lesbian, I think straight couples are largely cute. I love weddings, I love mushy movies, and I love when my straight friends and family find romance.
Rape is always disgusting, which is what you described with those other examples: an animal or child cannot consent, and a brother/sister sexual relationship comes from manipulation and usery. Love shouldn't disgust you unless you have some unexplored issues.

Personally, I don't think you're gay. You're just a jerk.

Answer 4

If you're really so sickened by gays, why are you expending your time & energy in a gay questions forum? I, too, am disgusted by beastiality, pedophilia, and incest. And you'll never find me in a forum that entertains those topics. But...for whatever deep, underlying reasons, you have joined our company of gays today. I don't think anyone has outrightly assumed you are gay for your intolerance toward us. But instead of asking us to supply you with the answers, at this point you probably would be better off questioning yourself as to why you are here and why you're sickened by us.

Answer 5

A certain percentage meet the assumption. A large percentage don't. The large percentage that hate gays and are not gay are not remembered. But the gay basher who hates gays, yet likes to talk in gay chat rooms will definitely make the news. A pastor who speaks against gay marriage but has meth driven sex with gays will also be in the news.

Also, sometimes those who really make a big deal of something are hiding something. Remember Hamlet...the queen says "Me thinks she protests too much"? Most people who hate gays don't make a big fuss about it...they go on with their lives and just do what they do. They might not rent out an apartment unit to a gay couple...or they might find an excuse to not hire someone who is gay but qualified. However, they often don't go out and start shouting their hatred for all to see. Many of those who shout and make an unusual amout of noise are hiding something because of their own insecurities.

Your logic is sound that many who hate homosexuals are straight. And I have no big reason to doubt you unless you start trolling or doing something outrageous to prove your machoness over and over again as if there was none to begin with.

Answer 6

The majority feel the same as you,its a shame only Islamic nations seem to deal with these practices in the correct manner.

Answer 7

The only homophobes I think are secretly gay are the ones who spend ample time making sure everyone knows that they aren't gay and are disgusted by it. If you aren't gay, why devote so much time to thinking about it? Move on with your straight life and be happy and reproduce and all that.

(This wasn't directed to you, Me's Father. It was directed toward the question only. The 'you' I referred to in the above paragraph is referring to the homophobic bigots who come here regularly to remind us how much they hate us and our lifestyle. )

Answer 8

"S/he doth protest too much, methinks"

Projection. Pure and simple. Many times people will pick out and show incredible hatred for things inside others that they hate inside themselves. It may not be so in your case, but it does happen. Frankly, I can't figure out why people who are so opposed to one way of life that they'd go on a site or group for only those people. I'd think that if it sickens them so much, they wouldn't put themselves in the middle of it. But hey, that's logical thinking for ya.

Answer 9

Why do you associate homosexuality, beastiality, pedophillia and incest? The only thing I am assuming is that you have no idea on what homosexuality really is.

Answer 10

find a psychological dictionary and look up the true psychological meaning of the word
I think you'll be surprised to find out that according to the A.P.A. (American Psychological Association ) anyone that is constantly saying "look he walks like a girl, he holds his cigarette like a fag. and all sorts of **** like that are psychologically transffering their negative feelings about their own sexuality to someone else. that they feel should doesn't quite fit into the mold that SOCIETY has set up for them.
my personal thought is don't judge someone by what they are in private but for how they treat you.

Answer 11

I notice in the wording of your question that you are sickened by homosexuals (an identifiable group of people), whereas the rest of your question mentions your disgust toward specific and taboo sexual behaviors. Interesting.

Anyway, no one ever said that people who are disgusted by homosexuals are necessarily homosexuals themselves. You're misunderstanding Freud, but I'll try my best to explain.

Clearly, our society prizes heterosexuality over homosexuality, and homosexuality is strongly discouraged through both explicit and implicit channels. Indeed, struggling with one's own internalized homophobia (the disgust of homosexuals that is "soaked up" from the mainstream culture and directed toward one's self) is often a critical part of the coming out process.

Alfred Kinsey, pioneer of the scientific study of human sexual behavior, was surprised at how many otherwise heterosexual people admitted to having occasional homoerotic urges or reported a few isolated homosexual experiences. He concluded that human sexuality cannot be neatly categorized, but rather exists on a continuum ranging from exclusive heterosexuality to exclusive homosexuality. Most people, he proposed, probably have bisexual tendencies; however, they do not act upon or acknowledge their same-sex attractions because of social conditioning.

Such compartmentalization comes pretty easily if you prefer to have sex with members of the opposite sex most of the time. If you're geared in the same-sex direction, though, it becomes much more of a struggle to contain, because it's a much larger and more important part of who you are. (Fortunately, many gays and lesbians have stopped struggling to contain their same-sex attractions and have joined the struggle to win equal recognition.)

Anyway. Assuming that many ostensibly "straight" people do have occasional homoerotic urges and attractions, as Kinsey suggested, and expressing or acknowledging these urges would invite social disapproval, an individual may be made quite anxious by such feelings. According to Freud (who admittedly had a number of pretty wild theories), wishes and impulses that create anxiety are often banished - "repressed," if you will - into the unconscious. But they do not go away.

"Defense mechanisms" are one way of managing the anxiety aroused by one's own undesired homoerotic urges, and most of these mechanisms involve some kind of distortion of reality. In the case of "reaction formation," the individual behaves in a manner that is the exact opposite of the unacceptable and repressed urge.

So, a person who fears his own latent homosexual urges may, for example, engage in promiscuous heterosexual behavior. He may express disapproval or disgust toward homosexuals whenever the subject comes up. He may react with verbal or physical aggression toward gay people, or whenever his heterosexuality is called into question or otherwise threatened.

Or, perhaps he just comes into the GLBT section of Yahoo! Answers to proclaim his disgust toward homosexuals.

Basically, all these behaviors would be an attempt on this individual's part to prove how straight he is to himself and his audience. By antagonizing gay people, he is trying to convince himself that he is nothing like them.

Maybe this applies to you, maybe it doesn't. But there was an interesting study which found that heterosexual men who measured high in homophobia (i.e., negative emotional reactions toward gays) exhibited greater sexual arousal to homoerotic stimuli than their non-homophobic counterparts. This is pretty much exactly what Freud would have predicted.

At any rate, maybe if you actually got to know some gay and lesbian people, and discovered that they're no less human than you are, you would find yourself less "sickened" and more sympathetic. But that might be asking too much.