Poll: Are you Homophobic??

[Something Amyss]

They can do whatever they want but homosexuality has no meaning in the natural world.

Except, you know....

They can do whatever they want but homosexuality has no meaning in the natural world.

Wrong. It does...

 

[oppp7]

I'm ok with gays, I have a few gay friends, I support their rights, and my BDSM fetish makes me a little gay, but I'm somehow pretty homophobic.

 

[Lambi]

If I was homophobic, I couldn't be bisexual/pansexual. So, no.

 

[IkeGreil29]

I think it'd be silly to say "I'm not homophobic" as a heterosexual person. No matter what, you always will feel uncomfortable with the idea of you engaging in it. That is to say, maybe other people doing it doesn't matter, but when you get involved... it changes your perspective.

Why would heterosexuals be getting involved in gay sex in the first place?

I'm going to assume that you're a guy from your profile name, sorry if this isn't so.

What I'm trying to get at is that the idea of a guy walking up to you and kissing you, no matter the circumstances, will always make you uncomfortable. We're thrown into a society where being gay can be an insult (just look at YouTube comments), not to mention that openness has just begun to surface strongly. If your heterosexuality gets challenged, you feel like your world is falling apart and there'll be no end to the suffering. Of course, this comes from one kind of guy in the world, I understand everyone is different.

 

[Something Amyss]

Checkmate See I don't really understand that sentence. Just because it isn't one person's idea of a couple, doesn't make it any less natural in overall perspective of everyone else. An almost equal mix of people would find it perfectly natural, nullifying your statement as "fact" sorry

Didn't see this before. "Natural" is a term of convenience. It's also "natural" for us to be wiped out by contagion, to be hunted by predators, etc. It's a way of trying to add credence to the "I don't like it" terminology. You know, because I don't do it so nobody should.

Nature isn't inherently good or bad anyway. It just is.

 

[superbatranger]

My stepbrother is gay. I have more than a few gay friends. So no, I am not homophobic in any way.

 

[Something Amyss]

I'm going to assume that you're a guy from your profile name, sorry if this isn't so.

What I'm trying to get at is that the idea of a guy walking up to you and kissing you, no matter the circumstances, will always make you uncomfortable. We're thrown into a society where being gay can be an insult (just look at YouTube comments), not to mention that openness has just begun to surface strongly. If your heterosexuality gets challenged, you feel like your world is falling apart and there'll be no end to the suffering. Of course, this comes from one kind of guy in the world, I understand everyone is different.

Do you...Frequently have guys walking up and kissing you? Is it a common occurrence to make you think about it so thoroughly? Because I still don't understand the heterosexual predilection to obsess over gays doing gay stuff to them. I understand you might feel challenged if someone insists you might not like women, silly as it is, but to fear guys coming up and kissing you seems weird, and that so many seem to think it's likely is even weirder.

 

[Gentleman_Reptile]

Ok heres the thing......

I do not have a problem with gay people being gay and doing their thing and having their culture, thats just great.

But I want nothing to do with it. I want to know nothing about it. Why? Because I'm NOT gay. With the obvious exception of french kissing cheerleaders, I find the concept to be gross, but thats because I'M straight. I think thats fair enough. I just dont want any part of it, and it feels kind of weird to be around Gay dudes. Not because I dislike them for any particular reason, but because I myself am not gay.

 

[Something Amyss]

If I was homophobic, I couldn't be bisexual/pansexual. So, no.

You could be self loathing. There were Jewish Nazis, both those who fit in to survive and those who actually hated their "own kind." I know one guy who hates blacks more than any racist I've ever met, and he's black. It's weird, but it happens.

 

[Bored Tomatoe]

Nope, it doesn't bother me in the slightest. My school has a seemingly disproportionate amount of gay people, so that may have to do with how used to it I am... But yeah, gays don't bother me, Hell, this one guy's hit on me a few times and it was nothing other than flattering.

 

[PeterDawson]

I guess I am slightly homophobic, but I think its sort of justified. The cliche outfits worn at the pride parades I just find gaudy, like the short-shorts, so when people wear them and its not for a parade or whatever I just want to roll my eyes at how rediculous I think it looks. Really more a judgement on fashion than the lifestyle.

 

[IkeGreil29]

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Hahaha, true. But the thing is, if it did, I'd sure feel uncomfortable. That's why I think saying "I'm not homophobic" as opposed to "I don't feel uncomfortable around homosexual people" is different. And no, I don't think like most conservatives that the gay people of the world will become a pack of savages and rape everyone.

Maybe it's a cultural thing. Mexican culture is rather different from others (as it should be with all cultures).

I feel like I'm not getting my point across well...

 

[The Lunatic]

As a homosexual person myself, yes, I hate their living guts.

I kid.

I love meh some gays.

Fuck those heteros though.

 

[VicunaBlue]

I have nothing against homosexuality, But I've hated all the gay people I've met to the point of them driving me out of whatever social event some friend of mine decided to bring them along too.

Great, you have sex with dudes. You don't need to get up in my face about it.

Please don't tell I'm some damn redneck that lives in a secluded town here there are no gays, I go to a fucking Art School in New York.

 

[rockera]

I have a gay friend and it makes me a little uncomfortable but overall I won't go burning crosses in his lawn and he's still one of my good friends.

 

[Belbe]

Weird seeing em on the street, but I've always wanted to have gay friends they seem like such awesome people!

 

[Mr.Petey]

Checkmate See I don't really understand that sentence. Just because it isn't one person's idea of a couple, doesn't make it any less natural in overall perspective of everyone else. An almost equal mix of people would find it perfectly natural, nullifying your statement as "fact" sorry

Didn't see this before. "Natural" is a term of convenience. It's also "natural" for us to be wiped out by contagion, to be hunted by predators, etc. It's a way of trying to add credence to the "I don't like it" terminology. You know, because I don't do it so nobody should.

Nature isn't inherently good or bad anyway. It just is.

Thank you! I appreciate that level headed approach to what is quite frankly a word/meaning that has been used and abused for too long to the point of "what I like" as opposed to it's real meaning of the natural order of things regardless if they are good or bad.

I don't like the fear seemingly present in some hetro guys that guys of a different sexuality are about to be assaulted by them any time soon. If you're straight and you make it known (but not in-your-face presence as the wind does blow both ways) that you prefer the intimate company of women, then you have the same chances of the aforementioned "attack of the gay" happening than you do of being struck by a meteor on the first day of every month for the next ten years which is needless to say...impossible.

 

[Lambi]

If I was homophobic, I couldn't be bisexual/pansexual. So, no.

You could be self loathing. There were Jewish Nazis, both those who fit in to survive and those who actually hated their "own kind." I know one guy who hates blacks more than any racist I've ever met, and he's black. It's weird, but it happens.

Interesting. But as I said, I'm not homophobic.

 

[Dogstile]

Considering i've kissed blokes... No

Edit: And yes, i'm straight. I'm comfortable enough to kiss a guy on a dare.

 

[Paksenarrion]

When I was 15, a gay guy attempted to rape me. He probably should have come armed because barehanded he picked the wrong victim and nearly got himself killed.

For a fair while after that (as in, over a decade) I was a foaming-at-the-mouth crusader that gays were an abomination and blah blah blah hate speech.

Then I got to know one. Thankfully someone told me "keep your fool mouth shut and don't offend this guy" and the someone (my then-girlfriend, who introduced me to him) was someone I didn't want to piss off, so I gave him a fair chance.

That guy is now my closest male friend, a guy I'd go to war with, the guy who singlehandedly turned me from a frothing Republican asswipe into a tireless crusader for equality, because he is just that awesome. And I say that as a guy who's completely straight.

I've met his friends. Met a couple of his lovers, even (a double date with three guys and a girl? Why yes.) And I'm no longer a homophobe. Thanks, Mike.

That makes you even more awesome, but you probably already knew that.

OT: I'm not sure. I, uh...kissed a gay friend once, but that was before I knew he was gay. I feel a little guilty; it's like I tried to turn him straight or something. Maybe it was okay? I guess I was aggressive enough in personality that it was a...manly kiss? I'm so confused.