Posted: Jun 13, 2014 12:24 pm
Adco wrote:I guess you're correct. I don't see myself as homophobic at all.mindhack wrote:Adco wrote:mindhack wrote:You just cringe or do you do also other stuff, like feeling contempt, or an urge to destroy them?
I cringe when I think of my parents having raw horny sex, but I love them too.
I just cringe at the thought of two guys kissing. No contempt or urges to destroy. What they do is none of my concern and I make no judgement against them. It is the built in feeling I experience that I am questioning. Am I, as a hetrosexual, predisposed towards homosexuals? And if I am, is this a common feeling among hetrosexuals. Maybe I am reading too much into it.
Then I don't think you're homophobic. You're probably just projecting what you see onto yourself and find it not to your liking. You're a heterosexual after all.
I am just trying to make a bit of sense out of it and see if I can understand where a full blown homophobic person might get their mindset from. Are heterosexuals(got the spelling right this time) predisposed to homophobia? Do all heterosexuals have a tiny bias against homosexuals and upbringing and indoctrination turns it into full blown homophobia?
I'm not some sort of expert on homophobia but my personal opinion is that it is a cocktail of bigotry, ignorance, primal icky-factor, self-esteem issues, status-among-peers kind of thing.