Homophobes Might Be Hidden Homosexuals

[BmorePat87]

(10-04-2017, 12:12 PM)bfine32 Wrote: From your article:

“I coined the word homophobia to mean it was a phobia about homosexuals….It was a fear of homosexuals which seemed to be associated with a fear of contagion, a fear of reducing the things one fought for—home and family. It was a religious fear and it had led to great brutality as fear always does.”

We were fortunate to have the exact words of the person that coined the phrase. Whatever it has bastardized into today cannot change the intent of the phrase. 

But as I've said all along: Nobody is going to take your word from you. It is up to the user to decide his or her vocabulary. 

I will use homophobic for those that fear homosexuality and I will use ignorant to describe those that simply hate. 

No doubt only taking what he said the term started off as and then ignoring his own words on how he personally evolved the term is intellectually honest.