Is there a relation between ugliness and homophobia?
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I know what you are talking about. For some reason the people that are scared of me for being gay seem to be the people I wouldn't even notice on the street. All of my good looking str8 friends are very comfortable with me and them selves. Go figure.
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Hey dude, I COMPLETELY agree with fitboy114.  My response is - People can appreciate other's looks, male or female, gay or strait.  Men and women look at each other, see the clothing, style, even good looks; it's normal and natural.  I am a totally gay guy who can appreciate the beauty of a woman.  Some people are just beautiful- male or female.  We are sexual creatures.  Allow yourself to explore your feelings.  It doesn't mean you are gay or GOING TO BE gay someday.  It's ok, just live and see what happens.  \n\nDON'T listen to all the negative advise from people who blindly follow structured religion and like to quote their bible of choice.  Plus, it seems, many people don't take these questions seriously, they just want points and to cause trouble.  Be yourself and live your own life.  Be well.
316708
Theoretically, you're absolutely right. The thing is, the word "homophobia" is a modern word of recent coinage. The "homo-" in "homophobia" isn't short for "homos" (Greek for "one-in-the-same"), it's short for "homosexual." Language is elastic that way.\n\n"Antihomosexual" might be preferable if "homophobic" hadn't become standard usage. Now, it would seem pedantic to try to change the standard. Words mean what people understand them to mean, that's all. If it were seriously confusing to use "homophobic," people would just stop using it.\n\nIn early Middle English, "uncle" was spelled "nuncle." Just because we lost the first "n" doesn't mean that the language was "bastardized." English is a hodge-podge of hundreds of languages. I'm an English teacher, but I understand that words change, and that there's no hard-and-fast proscriptive lexicon that won't be obsolete the moment it's published. The word "understand" doesn't mean to stand under anything. What's the point of expecting rules that never applied suddenly to apply now?
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Based on various psychology experiments, people seem tend to assign more positive qualities to those they deem are attractive.  One experiment even suggested that babies spend more time looking at the faces of attractive strangers than those of unattractive ones more.\n  As unfair as it is, relative attractiveness has a huge impact on the first impressions of others, not to mention self-perception... This effect is relevant in many situations (i.e. hiring, friendships, relationships).  Hate to say it but, physical looks count for a helluva lot in today's society =T
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Fear is a very basic uneducated response to a situation. These people are making assumptions about things before taking the time to get to know people. It's just like in the 1960's and prior when so many people were close minded towards African Americans and other minority races. They don't understand something or someone so they degrade them. It's disgusting and sad. People can love one another in a number of ways and there doesn't need to be one set guideline as to how you go about doing it. And the term is misused, 'homophobia' is to be scared of gay people, as in you don't want to approach them. But these people are not afraid of them in that sense. They need to stop interjecting their ridiculous religious claims and learn to be a little more open minded.
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Yes, I've read them.  The gays and pro-fags will just deny them though.  Or when all else fails, they'll just call you a hater homophobe.  Like anyone's afraid of a gay!  (Sorry homophobes, you know what I mean)
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It's both! Look up my answer on "why's religion against homosexuality?" I suspect many homophobes are more afraid of something in themselves than outraged by the private act between two guys. The "holy rollers" have a paradigm of values dictated to them. This becomes their identity. Anything different suggests that they may be wrong. \n Why else are there so many religious replys here? If we don't like something, we avoid it. If something is a threat to us, we attack it.
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Fear and ignorance.\n\nIf a person gets freaked out by the notion that someone around them is gay it's usually because they are afraid that the gay person will see some obvious gay traits that they have and "out" them.  Not only is this an unreasonable expectation to put onto someone, it leads to fear, hysteria, and violence.  \n\nNobody can "make" you gay, and if you are afraid you might have some traits, YOU DO, everybody does, that alone doesn't make you gay (or straight for that matter!)\n\nGender can be graphed on a bell curve, and everyone has a combination of male and female traits.  It's perfectly normal.  I wish the ones who react with fear could get over their irrationality as much as you do!
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• hate coupled with disgust
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I think yes, but not because they are innately immune, but rather, because they have motivation to investigate their religion more deeply if their background is one of the anti-gay religions.  If you are told that your nature is evil, you have reason to investigate whether or not that claim is true, whereas straights don't have as much motivation.  \n\nEven though there are plenty of promiscuous religious straights, there is not the same level of condemnation of that as there is of being gay.  There is a religious double standard that says heterosexual promiscuity is simply a series of failures, whereas homosexual "sins" are a lifestyle of rebellion.  ...makes no sense.
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i highly doubt that there is any proof what so ever\n\n"Scientists are currently uncertain as to whether homosexuality is primarily caused by environmental or genetic factors. The uncertainty arises because much of the available data involves correlations. But the controls have gotten better, so that it is now possible to reject some of the competing models."\n\nbesides ppl choice who they love and who they r attracted too
802696
Clay was totally out of line. That is so disgusting to touch someones face with your filthy grimy hands. That has nothing to do with homophobia straight people have germs too.
436709
yup - as a teenager I was fairly homophobic if I'm honest, I was trained as a dancer and felt branded as 'gay'.  however by about 20 years I'd seen enough scientific evidence and met several gay men in the profession to change my mind.  It's not their fault, it's in their genetic make-up, they have to live with that too, it's not a choice they make.  However, I still wish they wouldn't be so stroppy!! it's a characteristic I've come to laugh at from time to time, you can stop them from a mile away just from the disturbance!  I don't envy them at all, glad I'm straight, got married and had kids.  There are worse people in the world (like religious folk in cults, like Christianity etc)...
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no one can define the word ugly....\n\njust have lot of sex...it will burn every thing out.
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Their personality... and how they treat other people. It's never about the looks. Even the ugliest people.. have the sweetest souls.. and the "prettier "ones.. are evil. Not all.. but some.
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Yes, I have had the unfortunate experience of meeting extremly good looking people who are just ugly and ill tempered and mean, because they are so self centered and evil spirited that they think they are "it"...\n\nAnd I have met some people whos appearance are unfortunate to have, but they have such a kind heart, and warm personality that you WANT to be with them because they have this "something" that is such a wonder and loving person, that you cant get enough of them...\n\nBeauty is only skin deep, but, ugly is to the bone!\n\nIf your personallity is plain ugly, then your impossible to be around, but, if your are not so good looking and such a wonderful person that you "shine", then everyone will treasure your friendship...\n\nI wish you well...\n\nJesse
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Haha, no, but there is a Kinsey scale of sexuality that each person can be placed on to show his or her apparent attraction to the opposite or same sex.