Best cure for homophobia?

Natural aging process of the victims of it-






Assuming these patterns by age continue, Americans in older age groups 20 years from now will probably be more supportive of gay marriage than those who are currently aged 50 or older, as was the case for those in the same age groups in 2013 versus 1996.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/162398/sex-marriage-support-solidifies-above.aspx

 

Another good solution: exposure to gay people on a personal level. Friends and family coming out as gay - stuff like that. Realizing that a person you know and loved was actually "one of them".

 

Yes, exactly. That's one of the biggest reasons why we come out.

 

Your premise isn't supported by the facts...all age groups experienced similar changes. Second, you make an error of logic and that is assuming past trends will continue on a linear basis.

I do agree with previous comments, the best cure for homophobia is people finding out their friends and loved ones are gay.

 

Yes. Some people are just STUCK in their old, outdated and wrong ways.

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Yes.

AND apply ALL solutions. Time for the world to stop dogging gays.

 

Imagine how anti-gay Dick and Lynne Cheney would have been....if they hadn't had Mary?

 

No...think about it. A person 65+ in 1996....would at a minimum be 82 this year. Throw in the "+" and you're talking folks in their 70s, 80s, or 90s or older in 1996. Many of whom are ...well...not around any more in 2013.

And many of those in the 50-64 category are now in the 65+ category....and support for gay marriage goes up.

At a certain point on the "high end" of the age spectrum....there's ...a cliff. Just like on the "low end" there are "replacements" being created.


As for "past trends" remaining steady. Do you envision a "backlash" against gay rights coming? (I'm sure our local homophobes do...hopelessly so). And folks in their 20s today at 70% approval going back down to 40% approval when they hit their seniority in the mid-21st Century???

 

Worked for me. I'm not gay, but seeing how gay people really are as opposed to what I was taught. The biggest myth that was quenched for me was that gay people act femenine. The impression was of someone who bats their eyes, gives a southern belle wave to their buddies and says, "Hey, thailor! Well, don't you look nithe today!" You know how most of my gay friends greet me? "Hey, whatsup. What's been goin' on, man?!" That's it. Nothing prissy, or flamey. About half of them are transphobic (one says, "I don't get crossdressers. The gay crossdressers, I know there's straight ones, whatever. That whole "woman trapped inside a man's body" misses the point of what being gay is. I'm gay: I'm a guy who likes guys." And of my gay friends, he's probably the most "effeminate" and talks wth that slight stereotypical prissy lisp).

 

One thing along those lines....how many of the anti-gay folks ALREADY are friends with somebody who is gay....but not open about it? The "life-long bachelor" who "doesn't date much". Or the woman who constantly shoots down getting set-up by her friends and says she's "just not looking for a boyfriend right now"?

and makes you wonder about those forced smiles when their friends tell "gay jokes".

 

Why not curing you for being gay? You are the one who should be cured-you go against nature's design. It's a humiliation giving people a medical diagnose just because they don't like you. Hypocrisy after hypocrisy!
You should admit that we are born this way, we dislike it, don't find it cool, find it wrong, so give us freedom of isolate ourselves from you.



If you like to eat maggots, eat it yourselves, don't hunt others calling us "maggatophobic", if they don't like to be around. Why you want to take everybody with you?

Where is a freedom here in US? They hunt me because I just don't like something! They will even deny my rights for employment, if I am openly "homophobic", but there is nothing wrong with being openly gay! Jee...

 

I certainly hope so.

 

That's not very tolerant and open minded of you in how you discriminate against people who are born with phobias, a Federally protected minority class. Phobes just want to be treated equally. Who are you to judge them? They didn't just wake up one day and decide to be phobic, so that's proof they were born that way. I mean, why CHOOSE to do something so phobic that brings such hate filled scorn up them from homosexuals?

Stop trying to demonize and dehumanize these minorities.

 

Who is 'hunting you'?

And as an employer, I wouldn't want an employee who was openly discriminatory towards potential future clients, customers or coworkers.

I wouldn't want an open racist as an employee, and I wouldn't want an open anti-gay bigot as an employee.

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yep- those poor down trodden anti-gay bigots- just as down trodden as racists and anti-semites. Got to protect their sensibilities.

 

Homophobia, like racism, is not something you are born with. People who are bigots will be less likely to get a customer service job than people who are nice and friendly to everyone.

 

Do you have any proof to back up your claim that homophobes are not born that way? They claim they didn't just wake up one day and decide to be phobic.

 

Yeah, it's called get to know people who are different from you. Phobias are easy to get over once they are faced.

http://letsgohealthy.blogspot.ca/2013/02/how-to-get-rid-of-phobia.html

Also:

http://rck.net/phobias.htm
There you go.

 

Guys, can we stop acting like "homophobia" is an actual phobia? That isn't what the word means in modern (colloquial) usage. It really isn't.

There's a difference between being born with an innate fear of something and being a bigoted jackass.

 

I have agoraphobia - fear of wide open spaces, crowds, or uncontrolled social conditions. In my case, I only have a fear of wide open spaces (the opposite of claustraphobia). As one of the minorities of people who truly is afflicted with a PHOBIA, I resent homosexuals FALSELY using the word "phobia" to describe all those people to do not accept their lifestyle as valid.

A PHOBIA is an irrational fear of something. People who don't accept the homosexual lifestyle as valid do not fear homosexuals, and so the word phobia is misplaced. I believe it is deliberate, so as to malign those people, and try to FALSELY make it appear they are afraid without good reason. This is along the same lines as the equally FALSE word "gay", which has nothing to do with homosexuality, and is nothing but a silly euphemism.

The most accurate word I've heard to describe homosexuals is "QUEER" with is accurate, due to the contrary to nature way that homosexuals behave. I've heard some of them even describe themselves that way, with the chant "We're queer, we're here". At least they are honest about it.

 

Well, Martin_777 for example thinks he's being hunted. If that's no irrational fear, I don't know what is.

 

He's a Neo-Nazi (not being facetious, he really is), so I would not be surprised if he's done something to deserve being hunted by the authorities.

 

The word applies quite well, according to its definition. Actually, it is much better than any other label most could apply, where it concerns that 'antipathy' toward gays which many express.

I absolutely intend to use the term whenever I think it applies.

 

No, took years of training from their parents, church, or some fat guy on Talk Radio.

 

Basic point remains....I'll even change the semantics...

Those who are "antipathetic to gays"....are old and dying off.

 

I don't have to provide proof if you are the one making the claim that they are. The burden of proof is on you.

 

20-30 years from now....where will you find almost all of the antipathy towards gays???