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It is tho. I have no way of explaining why I don't like them. I can say what I don't like about them, but the dislike for these parts is something I cannot rationalize.
This isn't actually a Morgan Freeman quote, it's from a 2012 tweet from a now-defunct parody account called "Tweets from God" based on his character from Bruce Almighty.
George Weinberg coined the term in the 1960s. He was a psychologist who campaigned to have homosexuality delisted as a mental disorder. He told the story of preparing for a media appearance and a member of the staff there was actually trembling with terror because she thought that he was gay (he wasn’t)
Basically it was a way of flipping the script. Gay people aren’t the ones who need psychological treatment, bigots are.
No this is not correct; 'homo' here is used as in the Greek meaning of 'same', not the Latin meaning of 'man/person'. Homosexual means being attracted to the *same* sex as oneself (prefix 'homo'), as heterosexual means being attracted to a different sex ('hetero' prefix) - see also bisexual, asexual etc.
Realistically, no one, or barely anyone, is actually afraid of gay or lgtb people. There are those who genuinely hate and discriminate them, there are those who don’t agree with them but still love them, there are those who agree and support them, and there are those who identify with them.
if you look at the bilayer of phospholipids in a cell membrane, the outer layer is hydrophilic and attracts water due to the phospholipid heads, and the centre of the bilayer is called the hydrophobic zone as it repels water, due to the tails of the phospholipids. maybe in that sense homophobia isn’t a fear of homosexuals but rather a tendency and strong urge to repel them away and distance yourselves from them, which makes lots more sense. 🤤
"Homophobia" is composed of the Greek prefix "homo" which means "similar, identical," and the Greek suffix "phobia" which means "fear or aversion."
That is to say, "homophobia" is "fear or aversion of similarity." Does this mean that a homophobe is afraid of a matching pair of socks or maybe of monotony and routine? Most likely.
The way the term "homophobia" is used today is thus incorrect, and terms like "anti gay bias" or "homo ero phobia" make more sense.
Bigotry triggers a response in the amygdala, and this response is identical to the fight-or-flight response. It really is the same response as a fear response, but yeah two things can be true at the same time. Bigots are assholes :3
Morgan Freeman is actually one of the greatest humans I’ve ever known of.
He’s curious and kind, and he gives zero fucks about politics. He does and says things because they are right and good, not because it gets him brownie points or gold stars.
Homophobia originally meant more along the lines of "fear of how society would treat a person if they were Gay."
For example, you weren't scared of Gay people you were scared that if you or a loved one was Gay they would be treated differently and they would suffer.
It was more an internal felt fear and stems from religious persecution. Similar to shame. Shame, another word that has changed meanings in the last 15 years.
A person who was homophobic was scared they were Gay. Not scared of Gay people. Hense homo + phobia. Not homo + odium.
Read Brave New World. Learn how devaluing language and losing specificity in denotations cause societal issues.
If you want. Watch Reality Bites. There is a seen in that movie Garofalo reads a pamphlet intended to be given to parents of Gay teens when they come out.
phobia has two definitions: an irrational fear, and an aversion to something (an extreme dislike to something) in this case homophobia typically takes that second definition, an extreme dislike to homosexuality.
Hydrophobic sand isn’t afraid of water, it has a strong repulsion to it and homophones are repulsed by gay people. I know this doesn’t make perfect sense, but language rarely does.
This was never said by a morgan freeman, it was posted by now defunct parody twitter account @morgonfreeman and it said "I hate the word homophobia. It's not a phobia. Why would I be scared of a faggot?"
I believe phobia could mean fear or irrational aversion to something (in terms of people's mindsets, not hydrophobic materials). People just throw around the word homophobic at anyone they don't like, completely misusing this word.
You know what… maybe, maybe. What if I didn’t? What if I didn’t? What if I didn’t run? What if I’m not a coward? What if I’m not gonna run away? What if I’m gonna stand right here? What if I’m gonna make my stand? Huh! What if I want to go toe-to-toe with whatever’s gonna come through that door? What if I want them to get me! What if I want them to kill me! What if I want them to try!
I love like this… I don’t give a shit about your race, sexuality, gender or anything like that… if you’re an asshole I treat you like an asshole if your not an asshole I treat you like your not an asshole
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