Question:
Is she being too picky or are most men homophobic?
Milo
2009-02-24 03:12:16 UTC
My best friend is straight and she is very interested in ethics and human rights. She has been on dates with many guys who turned out to be homophobic. Even if it is just a little bit, it provokes her. I think she is very intelligent who minds it. She is definitely a thinking soul. People tell her that she is thinking too much. Many girls don't mind that their boyfriends are homophobic at all. The guys she has gone out with have been either:

- plain homophobic and gay bashing
- "It is okay as long as I don't need to have anything to do with the gays"
- "gays are disgusting/unable to follow the social codes/sinners, but I offer them the right to exist"

Aren't there any straight men who are gay friendly? Who care about gay rights? Who know that gays have been bashed and oppressed by society? Are all straight men at least a little bit homophobic?
She doesn't give them a chance. She tells me she can not fall in love with someone who don't have any "morals". She thinks homophobia is just as bad as racism and I agree with her. Not liking gay people is just as bad as not liking blacks or asians.
She isn't find with guys who think "gays have the right to exist, as long as they stay away from me". She has no plan to have kids but she isn't attracted to men who wouldn't accept a gay child, or a gay friend for that matter.
Is finding a non-homophobic man just as difficult as finding a vegetarian butcher?
Ten answers:
anonymous
2009-02-24 03:22:58 UTC
Your friend is right to be that "picky". A Georgia study studied men who called themselves straight. The men who had the most dislike and disdain for homosexual men were the ones who showed arousal when they were shown gay porn. The men who had no negative feelings towards homosexuals showed no arousal. There is a good chance that a woman is dating a closeted homosexual if he complains too much about gays. While gay men are perfectly normal, heterosexual women prefer not to sleep with them. Smart girl for following her gut.
Bill F
2009-02-24 03:42:46 UTC
Many men who are homophobic are that way as a defense mechanism. Deep down, they really don't care one way or another, but their machismo says that they have to be that way in order to preserve their manliness among their peers. Unfortunately , they practice it so much during their teens that it automatically spills out at inappropriate times (which is always). If they are deeply caring people they will reverse this when they reach maturity. If they don't turn it around, then maybe it has become so ingrained that they have a hard time letting it go. Your friend should question them and try just a little to educate them to their folly. If she can't pull the real goodness out of them, then she should run as fast as she can. Truly homophobic clods don't have just the one failing. Usually, they have hatred for all minorities (including women). A person who is insensitive won't make a very good mate or parent. (think of how the kids will be brought up). Nobody chooses to be gay, black or any other minority. By the way, this also applies to many women, but men are more accepting of discrimination when it comes to women. Lets hope that this changes in this generation.
anonymous
2009-02-24 04:27:51 UTC
Well she isn't any different than the "homophobes" now is she? She discriminates against people for not being homophiles. She seems to feel that it is OK to discriminate and ostracize others for not following her self-styled moral code, because she believes that if they don't love homosexuality and everything they do then it makes the "homophobes" fair game. This is typical of "tolerance and diversity" religion, that took what they wanted out of Christianity, through aside any notion of "God" and then got it completely wrong just like the Christians. I see her homophilic behavior a lot nowadays in the young who have been indoctrinated in the tolerance cult. So you say she has dated actual homophobes, (line 1 of examples), those who actually are tolerant, (2), and Christians who act the same way as her but their self-styled moral code is the opposite of the "tolerance" homophiles, while both groups have the same ideal of tolerance and diversity, but are unable to live by it i.e., Christianity and Tolerism both preach the same thing, but no one lives by their moral code.

It sounds like she is basically looking for a gay man that happens to want to have sex with women. She is never going to be happy, and she has feminism and the GLBT lobbies to thank for it. There is also a huge difference between being gay and being black or Jewish. You are born a certain race, and I will stop there since I don't want to raise the ire of the homophiles. Tolerance means sympathy or indulgence for beliefs or practices differing from or conflicting with one's own. So your friend is intolerant of those that don't approve of the acts that homosexuals partake in. She is as much of a hypocrite as the Christians.

There are straight men who are gay-friendly, but from what I've seen they still are uncomfortable with what their gay friends do. I've lived in NYC, a very gay place, and I know a large number of gays, and bi's. You know that bi's are really homophobic by your definition--they act and talk straight around straights, but when gays are around also they turn into flamers. Yes gays get treated terribly, and if by a little homophobic, you mean don't like the idea of getting f'd in the a, then yes all straight men are "homophobic."

Now don't get me wrong, I actually am for gay rights. I don't think they need or deserve special privileges, but they don't deserve to be treated with derision either. Your friend needs to stop being such a bigot, and realize that tolerance and total acceptance are two different things. Live and let live, if a man doesn't approve of homosexuality, it doesn't mean he hates or fears them either.



@the person who misrepresented the "homophobe" study. That study was on 64 men, with only half of them considering themselves homophobic. Not much of a sample size, huh? In other words the same size is so small as to make the study invalid. Also, the researchers point out that the increase in penile circumference doesn't definitively point towards latent homosexuality. They stated that anxiety could have caused that effect and not actual stimulation. I don't care either way, but let's try not to misrepresent reality here.
Elvis O
2009-02-24 03:21:47 UTC
LOL shes in for a long lonely life. Not many straight men will just get giddy at the idea of hanging around gay guys. Not to say we hate them just not the our kind of people usually. She I love girls like this they love to throw themselves on a cross have a Messiah syndrome.
doodlebugjimv9
2009-02-24 03:19:38 UTC
Lots of people are homophobic when they are young, but grow out of it. Your friend is probably right not to find homophobia a turn on. Can you imagine if she got married to a guy like that and one of their kids was gay? Sheesh. It might force the dad to grow up though.
sweney
2016-10-05 07:27:28 UTC
i think of that's because of the fact to be around some thing is te be seen as being that some thing, So being around gay is gay so stay removed from gay and additionally you're no longer. Thats basically my opinion.
anonymous
2009-02-24 03:21:55 UTC
Let me get this straight: She thinks that people who do not accept or condone a gay lifestyle have no morals? Does she know what a moral is?
anonymous
2009-02-24 03:36:18 UTC
Homophobes are usually trying to cover up their own latent homosexuality.
anonymous
2009-02-24 03:20:17 UTC
Why does she care so much about an issue that doesn't effect her personally anyway?
Micheal
2009-02-24 03:19:35 UTC
yes



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