Homophobes Might Be Hidden Homosexuals

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(10-03-2017, 06:17 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Only if: they are always finding ways to bring him up and attack him when he is completely unrelated to even the topic at hand. Are they so afraid of their own feelings that they have to constantly attack him to reassure themselves?








OK; as to the OP: I am one few that uses homophobe (irrational fear) it its correct context. just because you don't think a baker should be required to bake a wedding cake for a SSM doesn't make one homophobic (IMO).


A homophobe is someone more like a former coworker of mine. He would not let a male barber cut his hair (when he could choose) because he didn't want a dude touching his head/face.  

The guy who coined the term gave it a pretty broad definition that included the fear of gay people and their impact on family and religion, the fear of being labeled gay, avoidance of gay people, and also prejudice towards gay people. 

"When a phobia incapacitates a person from engaging in activities considered decent by society, the person himself is the sufferer….But here the phobia appears as antagonism directly toward a particular group of people. Inevitably, it leads to disdain toward the people themselves, and to mistreatment of them. The phobia in operation is a prejudice, and this means we can widen our understanding by considering the phobia from the point of view of its being a prejudice and then uncovering its motives (Weinberg, 1971; see also Weinberg, 1972, p. 8). "