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An accurate definition of Homophobia... (Original Post) Playinghardball Jun 2014 OP
Truth! Coventina Jun 2014 #1
That is EXACTLY what it is. closeupready Jun 2014 #2
No, it really isn't. Behind the Aegis Jun 2014 #3
It also leaves out lesbians BainsBane Jun 2014 #12
This is what I call a great example of the heterocentricism of many on DU Bluenorthwest Jun 2014 #4
Yeah... ChisolmTrailDem Jun 2014 #5
You have no fucking clue what Homophobia is. **Graphic Warning** William769 Jun 2014 #6
... Behind the Aegis Jun 2014 #10
Does the OP really believe that only men are homophobic? Women are never bigoted toward gay people? Bluenorthwest Jun 2014 #7
People have made good points, but let's try and recognize closeupready Jun 2014 #8
No, that is not accurate. MineralMan Jun 2014 #9
While I appreciate the point BainsBane Jun 2014 #11

Coventina

(26,808 posts)
1. Truth!
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 01:14 PM
Jun 2014

Last edited Tue Jun 24, 2014, 02:39 PM - Edit history (1)

K & R!

on edit: given what has been posted downthread since I first responded, I feel a bit compelled to expand on my statement as proclaiming the OP as truth.

It IS true, although, granted not the whole story. It's a short, pithy statement, oversimplified, like a "bumper sticker" as it's been described.

But, it does NOT make light of homophobia, or its consequences. And, I don't think it is an anti-male statement. It's directly addressing men who objectify women as sex objects. Operating from their own twisted view of the world, they believe that gay men treat other men as sexual objects as well. It's the same belittling, hateful attitude that reduces, in their minds, both categories of people: women and gay men, to merely sexual beings who are either a) in the case of women - exist to please them or b) in the case of gay men - exist to prey on other men in order to please themselves.

They project onto gay men the predatory attitude that they themselves have toward women. Thus, the fear and hatred that result in the crimes such as illustrated downthread.

It's both sides of the ugly "rape culture" coin.

William769

(55,043 posts)
6. You have no fucking clue what Homophobia is. **Graphic Warning**
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 02:05 PM
Jun 2014

Here is a taste of what Homophobia is Let this image burn in your brain and maybe you will learn what Homophobia is.

 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
7. Does the OP really believe that only men are homophobic? Women are never bigoted toward gay people?
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 02:17 PM
Jun 2014

Anita Bryant and Sarah Palin and Bachmann and those girls who beat the guy to death on the Blue Line, not homophobes? Really?

 

closeupready

(29,503 posts)
8. People have made good points, but let's try and recognize
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 02:21 PM
Jun 2014

that homophobia can be all the things in this thread, as well as the post in the OP.

Men - both straight AND gay - can be homophobic. Women - both straight and gay - can also be homophobic.

This expression - and I've seen it before - is a kind of expression which, for example, your mother would tell your father when your father kicks you out of the house for coming out of the closet. Or perhaps your brother's girlfriend/wife.

MineralMan

(146,116 posts)
9. No, that is not accurate.
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 02:26 PM
Jun 2014

It's much worse than that. That's a bumper-sticker statement that minimizes what it actually is. There's a photo upthread that is a better definition. Look at that.

BainsBane

(52,999 posts)
11. While I appreciate the point
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 12:45 AM
Jun 2014

I agree it is incomplete. Among the things it leaves out is that lesbians are likewise targets of homophobia.

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