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Originally Posted by sweetpea
Also: if getting phsycially disgusted over something and expressing it to others doesn't fit your defintion of bigotry? then what does?
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There have been times I've been physically disgusted by things I've seen. When I was dissecting out a vein under the lungs on a cadaver in anatomy class on a man who died of lung cancer and I had to cut through the spongy calcified lung cancer tissue in order to reach it, I was close to retching. I don't think anyone here would fault me for it, it was reflexive.
When I see two males in a sexual act I get a like visceral reaction. Its not violently ill, like I was close to feeling with the dissection, but its a gut feeling of EWWW.
I am 'tolerant' of homosexuality and homosexuals, I am friends with and have patients who are, but the defining act of being a male homosexual makes me cringe when I see it.
Being tolerant doesn't mean you have to like something.