This is such an insulting and frankly stupid take. Homophobia is not the work of self-hating gays, it’s just bigots being bigots. I’m sure that some closeted self-loathing gay folks do this kind of shit, but if you’re seriously suggesting that the only people who are willing to throw out homophobic slurs and violence towards gay people are other gay people then I don’t know what to say. Conservatives are hateful bigots to virtually every minority group on the planet, but only with homophobia are they accused of being the thing they’re being hateful towards. Why? I’ve never seen a racist accused of secretly being black, or a anti-semite being secretly Jewish, but apparently every homophobe is just a poor confused homosexual trying to throw of the scent.
Speaking as a gay dude, please stop this victim-blaming bullshit.
You have to be right, of course, demographically speaking. There’s no way the amount of bigotry we see could come entirely from a fraction of a minority, as the person above you is implying.
That said, it is difficult to reconcile that with a key feature of homophobic (and transphobic, etc.) rhetoric that is not present in racist beliefs: homosexuals are accused of choosing to be gay.
Which, of course, is as absurd as accusing someone of choosing to be black. And yet we hear one of these constantly, and never the other.
How is it even possible for someone to think that sexuality is a choice, unless they are constantly and actively “choosing” their own? That’s not a rhetorical question. I genuinely can’t make sense of it and that bothers me deeply.
Couldn’t be that a systemically homophobic country with a media landscape pushing hard on queerphobic stochastic terror propaganda would empower dickheads to attack queer people. No, the murderer must secretly be gay.
Couldn’t be that a systemically homophobic society would confuse and frustrate ignorant savages without critical thinking skills, who also happen to be having gay feelings that they have been socialized to despise since childhood.
I’m not blaming gays in general, but I also have a lot of life experience that demonstrates that often the loudest, most vicious homophobic politicians, preachers, etc., almost always eventually get caught with gay men. If you are that angry about gays simply existing, it is likely because you have unresolved internal hatred.
It is simply a fact that unhappy closeted gays are often the gay community’s worst enemies. I don’t blame “gays” for that, I blame a homophobic society that demonizes gay orientations, and forces weak people to deny their own truth.
What do you think the percentage of homophobic violence is carried out by cishets Vs closeted homosexuals? Because from my experience it is overwhelmingly bigoted cishets doing this sorta shit.
In place of trying to extrapolate a whole-arse sexual complex of someone neither of us know anything about I’d prefer to stick with what’s more likely.
Especially because this sorta self blaming of the queer community for its suffering has historically been used to minimise it (gay panic defences being used in cases murdered transfemmes for example).
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This is such an insulting and frankly stupid take. Homophobia is not the work of self-hating gays, it’s just bigots being bigots. I’m sure that some closeted self-loathing gay folks do this kind of shit, but if you’re seriously suggesting that the only people who are willing to throw out homophobic slurs and violence towards gay people are other gay people then I don’t know what to say. Conservatives are hateful bigots to virtually every minority group on the planet, but only with homophobia are they accused of being the thing they’re being hateful towards. Why? I’ve never seen a racist accused of secretly being black, or a anti-semite being secretly Jewish, but apparently every homophobe is just a poor confused homosexual trying to throw of the scent.
Speaking as a gay dude, please stop this victim-blaming bullshit.
You have to be right, of course, demographically speaking. There’s no way the amount of bigotry we see could come entirely from a fraction of a minority, as the person above you is implying.
That said, it is difficult to reconcile that with a key feature of homophobic (and transphobic, etc.) rhetoric that is not present in racist beliefs: homosexuals are accused of choosing to be gay.
Which, of course, is as absurd as accusing someone of choosing to be black. And yet we hear one of these constantly, and never the other.
How is it even possible for someone to think that sexuality is a choice, unless they are constantly and actively “choosing” their own? That’s not a rhetorical question. I genuinely can’t make sense of it and that bothers me deeply.
Couldn’t be that a systemically homophobic country with a media landscape pushing hard on queerphobic stochastic terror propaganda would empower dickheads to attack queer people. No, the murderer must secretly be gay.
Couldn’t be that a systemically homophobic society would confuse and frustrate ignorant savages without critical thinking skills, who also happen to be having gay feelings that they have been socialized to despise since childhood.
Why are you so keen to blame homophobic violence on gay people?
I’m not blaming gays in general, but I also have a lot of life experience that demonstrates that often the loudest, most vicious homophobic politicians, preachers, etc., almost always eventually get caught with gay men. If you are that angry about gays simply existing, it is likely because you have unresolved internal hatred.
It is simply a fact that unhappy closeted gays are often the gay community’s worst enemies. I don’t blame “gays” for that, I blame a homophobic society that demonizes gay orientations, and forces weak people to deny their own truth.
What do you think the percentage of homophobic violence is carried out by cishets Vs closeted homosexuals? Because from my experience it is overwhelmingly bigoted cishets doing this sorta shit.
In place of trying to extrapolate a whole-arse sexual complex of someone neither of us know anything about I’d prefer to stick with what’s more likely.
Especially because this sorta self blaming of the queer community for its suffering has historically been used to minimise it (gay panic defences being used in cases murdered transfemmes for example).
Why are you so incapable of reading… Oh wait, hexbear
But how am I supposed to know that without taking a look at their skulls?
This is the dumbest fucking take you liberals always trot out any time someone is homophobic.
Hate is real and it’s all around us.
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