Did I say you wrote something like that? It's just the same thing you did. Talking about rape etc.
I'm tired since you still did not answer my question what's different with women nor did you recognize my explanation about intimacy. My last line was only meant to express my tiredness of you answering a question with a question and overdramatizing. I did explain why in my opinion it's their right to choose whom they room with. And what do you? Not answer my question but try to lay words in my mouth I've never said.
I won't bother you anymore with my opinion. But can I have an award please just like dolfette did?
Oh, btw I DID state that those people are the minority but right... I generalize.
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Just something to think about. Ever heard of a self-fulfilling prophecy? If you go around shouting homophobia here homophobia there people actually really may become homophobe.
I'll certainly answer your point about intimacy, when you say you would feel uncomfortable sleeping in the same room as a gay man I find that incredibly insulting.
Why would you feel uncomfortable? Because you suspect any gay man of being capable of doing something inappropriate?
Yes you did say they were in a minority, you then went on to explain that despite these people being in a minority that their behaviour was enough to plant the suspicion in your mind that all gay men might be of a similar kind.
The point about women is a smokescreen frankly, and a separate issue, this discussion ultimately isn't about gender prejudices. The two situations are different and not comparable except in the most general of ways. You and I are the same sex, and for all intents and purposes there is probably very little which differentiates us, and yet you openly admit you would find it unpleasant to sleep in the same room as me because I am gay (though perhaps now you'll make some smart comment about your reasons for not wanting to share the same room as me being nothing to do with my sexuality) regardless of whether the conditions of our sharing that room imply that neither of us would be likely to do anything inappropriate anyway.
But ultimately if you're now saying that by naming and calling out homophobia I risk increasing it then I have to tell you thus far this has not been the experience of the gay rights movement. The course of the latter 20th century and the early 21st has seen gay people in many countries around the world motivated by the prejudices they have faced to explain how these prejudices operate, and to point out the ways in which they effect their lives, in doing so many countries have realised the inherent irrationality and unfairness of these prejudices and made attempts to mitigate them. If gay people had simply ignored these prejudices, or worse accepted that people had a right to treat them in accordance with these prejudices then we would still be living in fear and oppression in many countries. This is an ongoing process and homophobia like racism requires constant vigilance and confrontation.
What I see is someone who doesn't realise that despite paying lip service to the idea of equality that they still retain a form of latent homophobia. In fact you admit it freely, even though you'll shout me down for pointing it out.
If you feel uncomfortable with me pointing this out, then I'm OK with that.
