Homophobe

[number8]

Why are people who disagree with anything gay called homophobes? The dictionary definition is 'intense hatred or fear of homosexuals' I neither hate or fear them, but I do find it annoying that I'm referred as a homophobe simply because I don't agree that certain rights and privaleges should be preserved same heterosexual couples. So, Why Homophobe?

[incitatus]

Freud would put all this down to castration anxiety, wouldnt he? Bernardo- you should be grateful they dont think you are trying to come over here and steal their jobs and women.

[number8]

OK, I stand corrected - it is of course perfectly rational that gay people can be celibate in much the same way as heterosexual people. BUT, I do find the gay sex act previously described odd. That is not homophobic and to attempt (unsuccessfully) to suggest it is is bananas - but I guess we have reached an impasse and I am just repeating myself now and becoming boring so will gracefully bow out.

[bernardo]

Aha! You have trapped yourself with your own contradictions! :-) I agree with you that the specific sex act abovementioned is "odd", but that is not what anybody was talking about at first. It is not "homophobic" to suggest that one particular type of sex is "odd", but it is perhaps homophobic to reach sweeping generalisations about a whole group of people, and their entire lifestyles, on the basis of only one small part of the lifestyles of a minority of such people.

I am also getting bored with this thread. :-o