Are you Homophobic?

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No. It doesn't bother me in the slightest; why should it? I have a gay uncle and a gay cousin (omg the gay runs in the family...) and they're great fun to hang around with. :D

My fiancée always jokingly accuses me of flirting back when a gay guy tries to chat me up, but that's not the case. I find it flattering because I'm not a bigot, but I honestly think it's the simple fact that I'm not instantly all 'OMG that's disgusting, foxtrot oscar' about it. I just say 'no thanks mate I'm straight' and carry on chatting with them. I think that in itself says a lot - the fact that some people assume that if you don't run away screaming to grab your keyboard then you must also be a gay. :o

I find it funny when people start spouting homophobic nonsense (usually prefaced with 'I'm not homophobic, but...'). As I always say to my uncle, girls love gay guys and since they're gay, that's a handful of pretty girls more for me to try my luck on haha :p I'd take a night out with an effeminate, camp and overtly 'fun' (read: loud) gay guy over a knuckle-dragging bigoted Neanderthal any day of the week.

We're all human beings, I don't really care what you get up to in your spare time tbh. I take people as I find them (no homo ;)).
 
Honestly, yes, I'm intollerant, both sexually and racially, it happens, it gets worse as you get older, and there's not much that you can do about it. Doesn't stop me from having friends that are homosexual, or friends that are from different ethnic groups, but I am still intollerant.. Won't really be too long before people start asking "are you Chavaphobic?" and I'll say yes to that too..

I'm getting older, I'm getting crankier, and if you don't like it.. tough.. go bother someone else..
 
I've known two gay friends, a lesbian couple, and one girl who didn't really care either way. :p I see no reason it should bother people. It's not something I'd go for personally but I have no qualms with others doing it.
 
I know of a few gay people and they all say the same thing they just want to be as socially acceptable as people who are straight but they don't stop to think about it. Because gay people can never be as socially acceptable eg 50%+ of the population because there would be a decline in human population to the point that in the long run there would be no human race.
 
LoGaN_TnT said:
Because gay people can never be as socially acceptable eg 50%+ of the population because there would be a decline in human population to the point that in the long run there would be no human race.
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For something to be socially acceptable it doesn't require 50% of the population to be that way. Less than 50% of the global population are female, is being female not socially acceptable? What about left handedness - that's only about 10%! Social acceptance is very much about fair and equal treatment and an almost indifference to difference.
 
billysielu said:
I don't like the word 'homophobic' because a phobia is a fear of something. I'm not scared of gays, I find them repulsive.
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Then you're homophobic

"Homophobia is a term used to refer to a range of negative attitudes and feelings towards lesbian and gay and in some cases bisexual, transgender people and behaviour although these are usually covered under biphobia and transphobia. Intersex and asexual people are also sometimes included. Definitions refer variably to antipathy, contempt, prejudice, aversion, and irrational fear.[1][2][3] Homophobia is observable in critical and hostile behavior such as discrimination[1][2] and violence on the basis of a perceived homosexual or in some cases any non-heterosexual orientation"
 
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PMKeates said:
You're "getting older"? You're 35! Do you consider your life over or something? :p
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No, but I'm old enough to remember benny hill as being funny, and not "shameless exploitation of women", the point is, that as you get older, you invariably get more intolerant of everything different.
 
easyrider said:
Then you're homophobic

"Homophobia is a term used to refer to a range of negative attitudes and feelings towards lesbian and gay and in some cases bisexual, transgender people and behaviour although these are usually covered under biphobia and transphobia. Intersex and asexual people are also sometimes included. Definitions refer variably to antipathy, contempt, prejudice, aversion, and irrational fear.[1][2][3] Homophobia is observable in critical and hostile behavior such as discrimination[1][2] and violence on the basis of a perceived homosexual or in some cases any non-heterosexual orientation"
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homophobia#Criticism_of_meaning_and_purpose
 
Ceryndrion said:
No, but I'm old enough to remember benny hill as being funny, and not "shameless exploitation of women", the point is, that as you get older, you invariably get more intolerant of everything different.
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Do you?

I have gotten more tolerant, not less so. I think it depends on the how the individual develops as person rather than their age.
 
PMKeates said:
For something to be socially acceptable it doesn't require 50% of the population to be that way. Less than 50% of the global population are female, is being female not socially acceptable? What about left handedness - that's only about 10%! Social acceptance is very much about fair and equal treatment and an almost indifference to difference.
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Let's forget the about the 50% number and say if it ever got to the point that there were more gay people at it than straight people is that right? just because gay people want to be as socially acceptable I don't think it is.
 
I'd say that I am, yes.

I feel a person should be able to be with who they want, but at the same time, it all just feels very un-natural to me.

I do have homosexual friends and I just treat them like normal people, mind. It's not like I go around telling them they're wrong/evil/etc. as I don't feel strongly about it either way.
 
LoGaN_TnT said:
Let's forget the about the 50% number and say if it ever got to the point that there were more gay people were at it than straight people is that right? just because gay people want to be as socially acceptable I don't think it is.
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Because of your hypothetical?

People have to ignore their feelings for a set of unlikely scenarios?

Is that the objection you see if you happen to stumble across some gays?
 
LoGaN_TnT said:
Let's forget the about the 50% number and say if it ever got to the point that there were more gay people at it than straight people is that right? just because gay people want to be as socially acceptable I don't think it is.
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You realise that if there were more gay people than straight people more than 50% would be gay? You have avoided the number but the implication is the same and hence my point still stands - you have invented a completely arbitrary decision making process for what is and isn't socially acceptable.
 
Nivforever said:
I'm not homophobic but to say homosexuality is completely normal is taking it a bit too far imo

chinese scientists have already discovered that a chemical imbalance of serotonin in the brain can make you feel attracted to your own sex.
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No they did not.

There was a study involving mice which showed that males lost their preference for females, completely different scenario.
 
Nope not in the slightest.

Some of the 'Christian' attitudes over here are just lulworthy if they weren't actually being serious :-/
 
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Nivforever said:
I'm not homophobic but to say homosexuality is completely normal is taking it a bit too far imo
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Homosexuality isn't normal because it isn't the most common state. But neither is, say, being an engineer. A very small percentage of the world's population are engineers, and yet they're necessary and accepted. Something doesn't have to be normal to be acceptable.
 
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