Is homophobia natural for the heterosexual male?

[enchanted_one1975]

...In the store I came upon two men wrapped in arms staring face to face. I actually felt ill and became mad.

This is unusual for me though I freely admit I do not like sexual displays in public, I do not normally get ill or mad. I would have to admit that I was not at my best of the day meaning my mind was not functioning up to par. Was this a heterosexual male natural reaction.

Thinking on it after breakfast and my second cup of coffee, I believe it is. I also believe if it was a man and woman I would not have had any reaction. Very much surprising to me.

Did you think one or both of the guys was cute? Maybe it was jealousy rearing its ugly head.

 

[Alusky]

Homophobia in males may be as natural as a homosexual.

Yes homophobia is natural (actually anything that exist in the universe is natural) but that does not mean it should be tolerated if the person acts on it. Causing harm to others is not an acceptable behavior on humans.

I freely admit I do not like sexual displays in public, I do not normally get ill or mad.

Sounds like you are insecure with your sexuality, consider anger management or psychological help if you think is bad for you or others.

 

[KatNotKathy]

There is also "truthaphobia."
This condition is a total, paralyzing
fear of the truth. The truth being that
homosex is immoral, unnatural and ab-
berant human behavior.

You seem to be really hung up on gay folks.

 

[Oberon]

Little kids aren't racist until they're taught to be. That's social programming, not instinct.

I think both are invovled. Humans are innately equipped with discriminating cognitive faculties. It's essential for survival. We are also social animals. The ubiquity of discrimination against the "other" in all cultures, and the fact that, looking at history, it appears to be the norm, leads me to think that humans have an innate tendency to associate with those they identify with themselves and see the rest as "other." Social learning provides the mechanism whereby humans are indoctrinated into viewing factors (skin color, accent, which hand is dominant, etc) as significant while ignoring others (e.g. finger size). However, the "natural state" seems to be for humans to readily identify the other and they must be taught to be inclusive.

 

[Oberon]

You seem to be really hung up on gay folks.

Homophobes usually are.

 

[Black_Shuck]

There is also "truthaphobia."
This condition is a total, paralyzing
fear of the truth. The truth being that
homosex is immoral, unnatural and ab-
berant human behavior.

Ugh your answer sickens me. When I here stuff like that it makes me think of the Westboro baptist church or the people who kill Matthew shepherd. Homosex is just as natural as any other sex, people are capable of doing it and deriving pleasure and intimacy from it as much as heterosexual sex.
Immoral? By who standard?
Unnatural? What about humans at this point is natural?
Aberrant human behavior? My comment to that would just start a flame war so I am just going to say with all the things humans do in the name of religion, government, and the greater good. Human behavior is sick from the get go.

 

[Father Heathen]

I'm about as gay friendly as you can get and still be strait.

 

[Sunstone]

There is also "truthaphobia."
This condition is a total, paralyzing
fear of the truth. The truth being that
homosex is immoral, unnatural and ab-
berant human behavior.

I think you have homosexuality confused with fanaticism.

 

[Buttercup]

Thinking on it after breakfast and my second cup of coffee, I believe it is. I also believe if it was a man and woman I would not have had any reaction. Very much surprising to me.

My guess is that male homosexuality and PDA is a big turn off but if you had seen two hot homosexual women locked in a passionate embrace, it wouldn't have been quite the huge bummer.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Hatred is a learned behavior, so I do not believe it is natural. I have noticed that most homophobes are homophobes because of religion, society, insecurity with there own sexuality, or are in denial about being homosexual themselves.

 

[Wannabe Yogi]

Is it permissible to find it gross, without it rising to the level of a psychiatric phobia?
I hate the flavor of mint, but no one would call me mintaphobic. If enjoy the company of
many gay folk, but find some practices icky, it's ridiculous to label that as an irrational fear.

I don't think finding it gross to be anymore or less phobic then a distaste for eating Chitterlings.(viscera intestines of a pig) It's all about personal taste one of my Gay friends found women's breasts to be very aesthetically unappealing but this in no way makes him a misogynist. So I see no problem with what you are talking about. Just like I would say a cubby chaser is not prejudice against thin people.

At the same time if Gays being in love made me mad. I would take this as a personal problem that I need to get over. We all have or prejudices. It's only when we let them fester in side of us do we become bigots.

 

[Rainbow Mage]

Homophobia is only natural for a heterosexual male if they're insecure in their sexuality. Otherwise they wouldn't care. Why is it that you feel bob the heterosexual male is naturally homophobic, but gays don't think that about heterosexuals? I am not heterophobic.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I know plenty of guys who are ok with homosexuals. They are just another part of the group, no one makes them feel weird, out of place, or uncomfortable.

 

[Rainbow Mage]

I'm asking why bob thinks homophobia would come naturally to a hetero male? Heterophobia doesn't come naturally to me.

 

[Commoner]

I'm asking why bob thinks homophobia would come naturally to a hetero male? Heterophobia doesn't come naturally to me.

Well, Senedjem, as you might have noticed, you're currently living in a predominantly heterosexual society. So...you're used to it. It's a bit like asking why we're (to a certain extent) afraid of other cultures, when ours does not scare/bother us.

We're all afraid of/uncomfortable around the "different", that is natural. Depending on where you live, that may apply to homosexuality, or even to any public displays of affection or any number of different things. It's not really something you can just "unthink", but you can certainly recognize that it is not a rational fear and act accordingly.

 

[Sunstone]

I don't think homophobia is any more natural for a heterosexual than any other phobia is natural-- that is, inevitable.

 

[dust1n]

Agreed with Sunstone. Except.. you will have a hard time convincing me that anything that exists is 'unnatural'.

 

[MissAlice]

I'm curious as to why this question is only aimed at the heterosexual males not that it's important but I've seen women be just as homophobic as men.

 

[Wannabe Yogi]

Except.. you will have a hard time convincing me that anything that exists is 'unnatural'.

How about Plastics,Mc Donald's chicken Mc Nuggets, Joan Rivers face, John Kerry telling jokes, and Black Republicans.

 

[Alusky]

How about Plastics,Mc Donald's chicken Mc Nuggets, Joan Rivers face, John Kerry telling jokes, and Black Republicans.

Like I said before, and probably what dust1n wanted to say too.

Everything in the universe is NATURAL, anything that exist is natural.
Calling homosexuals unnatural or homophobia natural are just excuses (or a wrong use of the word "natural")