Is homophobia a bad thing?

Membership · Mar 20, 2015

Cba to read the entire thread, but most people who call themselves homophobic do not have any kind of fear/phobia of gay people, they just don't like them point blank.

Homophobia is a very misused term. I've actually met a lot of people who are disgusted by gay people and no one who has a phobia of them.

Let people be what they want

zorro_ · Mar 20, 2015

HamzaAbbasi said:
Freedom is a myth, people are stopped from expressing themselves how they wish and showing their dislike for certain things. I think as long as freedom is preached nothing is wrong with homophobia.

Can you explain this? I don't understand.

Dracon · Mar 21, 2015

Spyder69 said:
Less than 1% of the US population is homosexual, at least the last time I looked. This leads me to believe that at some point during the developmental stages there was a break in development, an interruption. The natural order of the human is to grow up and reproduce. Homosexuality does not allow for reproduction. Male + male =/= child -- woman + woman =/= child. As the universe intended for it to be, it is male + female = reproduction = continuation of the human race.

That's an extremely simplistic view of human genetic trends. First, somewhere between 3-4% of the U.S. population identify as something other than straight (and think of how many remain "in the closet"). Second, homosexuality canconfer genetic advantages. Example: There's something known as "group selection", where evolution acts on the group instead of the individual. Families with lots of children, and a few gay uncles/aunts, can devote a lot more time to raising those children.

Meow · Mar 22, 2015

I'm not a homophobic, so please excuse me if I get my words a little mixed up. I believe there are two types of homophobics in the world. The kind who are completely and totally terrified of homosexuals, and the type who just don't like them because they are different, or because their friends dislike them. I personally know these two types of people. My boyfriend is the first type of homophobic. Completely terrified for some reason. However, the guys I sit with at lunch just completely despise homosexuals for no reason at all except the fact they're slightly different. I also knew a boy who claimed he hated homosexuals, then came out of the closet two years later.

Dracon · Mar 25, 2015

Meow said:
I'm not a homophobic, so please excuse me if I get my words a little mixed up. I believe there are two types of homophobics in the world. The kind who are completely and totally terrified of homosexuals, and the type who just don't like them because they are different, or because their friends dislike them. I personally know these two types of people. My boyfriend is the first type of homophobic. Completely terrified for some reason. However, the guys I sit with at lunch just completely despise homosexuals for no reason at all except the fact they're slightly different. I also knew a boy who claimed he hated homosexuals, then came out of the closet two years later.

The guys you sit with at lunch, are they your friends?