• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    in about 90% of the cases

    And other complete bullshit statistics I ripped out of thin air.

    If you think even close to 90% of homophobes – or fuck it, 90% of cases if you think the countable closet gay instances are vastly unevenly distributed among a tiny 1% – are doing it because they’re secretly aching for gay sex/romance, you’re out of your fucking mind and need to take that shit back to high school psychology.

    Just like 90% of racists don’t secretly wish they were another race or 90% of transphobes aren’t closet trans, this is egregiously wrong and nonsensical.

    • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today
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      7 hours ago

      Nope, I was 100% religious. With some philosophy, and Nihilism, I became fairly non-homophobic.

      I now use “if you are homophobic, you are secretly gay” to scare religious people from being homophobic.

      EDIT: Actually, it was cultural. I was still religious when I started practicing your soul, your problem. To reconcile being left with being religious, I would just “preach” how being gay would send you to hell, and then like literally hold nothing against them after, I did my “duty”.

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      13 hours ago

      Making homophobia a “problem of the gays themselves” has been a common trope for decades. It’s very comforting because it kind of absolves heteropatriarchal society.

      Of course don’t you dare to delve into WHY do some gay people have internalised homophobia.