• exanime@lemmy.today
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    5 months ago

    I don’t read it as that… To me it looks like being afraid of leaving the closet causes homophobia

    This is the same principle as small penis men buying large trucks… They are doubling down on the homophobia display to over compensate for their homosexuality

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          5 months ago

          I think they so often are claimed to be. How many actually are? Have there been some? Yes. Do we actually know how many? Even a rough estimate?

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            5 months ago

            I think they so often are claimed to be

            They portrait themselves as raging homophobics just to then pretend to be gay? I don’t follow

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              I think that other people often make the claim that homophobes are secretly gay and I’m asking if we actually know how many, even based on a rough estimate, that applies to. If not, it’s a spurious and rather disturbing claim.

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                5 months ago

                This is exactly how stereotypes work. And no, they should not be taking super seriously even if they do tend to come from some real life examples

                Personally, I am not super concerned if claims against homophobes are spurious, they do not seem to mind claiming gay people are pedophiles in disguise for example

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                  5 months ago

                  But as I said, it suggests that queer people are the homophobes. That’s my issue. It lessens the bigotry issue if the implication is that cishet people aren’t the ones being homophobic.

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                    5 months ago

                    Not it doesn’t… some fruits are apples, apples are not all fruit

                    Again, I do not know what you are fishing for but I don’t care to follow

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              5 months ago

              18 people vs. every single person who says anything homophobic that gets reported on the news since people always claim that person is closeted.

              Which is my point.