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Originally Posted by willravel
Homophobic male heterosexuals showed more arousal to homosexual images than did nonhomophobic heterosexuals.
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If your point is that repressed homosexuality is a
possible explanation for homophobia, I agree. But I'm sick of people treating this generalization as though it were an absolute rule. Secret self-loathing is just one possible source.
And even if it were an absolute rule, it wouldn't have any bearing on the quality (or lack thereof) of their arguments. At best, it's useless and antagonistic. At worst, it starts resembling the bigotry of the person it's thrown at. E.g.: Ooh, you just implied not so subtly that he's gay. Nice slam.