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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Lane3 who wrote (73810)9/3/2003 10:47:05 AM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
I think very few people realize there is a latent component- and the ones who do, and are worried about it, worried enough to make an issue of it...well...why exactly are they worried? They don't want to be thought of as latently homosexual? If they didn't consider homosexuality a "bad" thing, it wouldn't be "bad" to have a latent component of it. I remember a long time ago, if I argued for homosexaul rights, some people would invariably call me a lesbian. But why should I care? Lesbianism, imo, is no better or worse than being a heterosexual woman. So the only reason I might care, is if I thought it was bad to be that, in which case I'm proving the point of the person who thinks I'm really worried about homosexuality, and being associated with something like that.

Then on the side of the phobia component- people who react with strong emotion to something usually have an underlying psychological issue with the inciting element. People react in very strong ways to homosexuality- far beyond what the "danger" from homosexuality might be. One of the definitions of phobias is fear of something out of proportion to its danger to you (an irrational fear of the danger of something)- if you use that as a definition then you can certainly support the phobia argument, since many people who speak up on SI posit all sorts of "dangers" posed by homosexuals which are clearly not very rational.
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