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I have to agree with all of you, actually:Jack, Bill, and Charlatan. EDIT: And Borla! He speaks directly to my point! There are a lot of factors that go into making someone truly fearful of the things they don't understand.
My relative (unfortunately related by blood, no less) is strongly homophobic, and his theory? Gay men are just lazy. Yep, lazy. It's supposedly easier to get it on with other men because other men have similarly high sex drives, supposedly unlike women. An interesting thought, but... sheesh. For the record, he's homophobic due to an unfortunate childhood experience with a grown man... which made him believe that all gay men are capable of such things and in his mind, likely to do such things. That is the only other reason not listed yet (that I can think of) for someone to hate gay men - hard to control that kind of visceral reaction from childhood.
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