Natural homophobes? Evolutionary psychology and antigay attitudes

http://www.scientificamerican.com/ ^ | March 9, 2011 | By Jesse Bering

[Maelstorm]

This guy is a leftist gay from the UK but once you get past the politically loaded word 'homophobe' it is a good article and more honest than you will normally ever get from guys of this persuasion.

Read it and then check out his latest latest jab Chikfila and Sarah Palin. What can I say a blind squirrel occasionally finds a nut but is still blind.

https://twitter.com/JesseBering/status/229343895807483904

[Puckster]

Simple question, why is my disgust for homosexual behavior a “phobia” to begin with?

I don't fear them.......simply disgusted.

I also don't think that pedophilia is a nut that has fallen far from the homosexual tree....courtesy of Dan Savage, a frequent White House visitor.

[ansel12]

About time that they share this with us, too bad for military age males, many of them will be thrown out and sent to jail for their reactions in coming years.

[vbmoneyspender]

folk beliefs about children’s sexual impressionability.

more and more it seems that getting a post-graduate college education turns you into a moron when it comes to human nature.

[max americana]

“Simple question, why is my disgust for homosexual behavior a “phobia” to begin with?

I don’t fear them.......simply disgusted.”
**

They disgust me and I disgust them. Nothing new.

[Mortrey]

“... his theory sound. Yet his studies are imperfect.”

Huh????

[verum ago]

Sometimes, science can be exceedingly rude—unpalatable, even. The rare batch of data, especially from the psychological sciences, can abruptly expose a society’s hypocrisies and capital delusions, all the ugly little seams in a culturally valued fable. I have always had a special affection for those scientists like Gallup who, in investigating highly charged subject matter, operate without curtseying to the court of public opinion. And, before anyone does so, what an absurd, spineless suggestion for science to refrain from engaging in any intellectual inquiry, from exploring theoretical possibilities, because we fear what we may learn about ourselves.

This little bit is definitely refreshing.

[ExxonPatrolUs]

I am reminded of Victoria Jackson's review of "Year One"

Why I Walked Out of ‘Year One’ Crying (Victoria Jackson)
Well, today I walked out of a Judd Apatow movie crying. It was the scene where the obese homosexual is fortune-telling by looking at the bowels of a sheep that has been sodomized by a person. The movie was “Year One.” I tried to be open-minded as I watched the first 20 minutes of masturbation, fornication, circumcision jokes, continual penis references, bestiality, violence, and Biblical blasphemy. I told myself this was a PG-13 movie and the writers were “lost” so they didn’t know how vulgar they were being. I looked at the ten-year-old and his father sitting next to me. I must be old-fashioned or something. But, then I noticed no one was laughing. No one was walking out either. I was hoping that the crude jokes were flying over the heads of the poor children who were sitting there wide-eyed and innocent. My daughter is 15 and she loves Jack Black and the guy from “Juno,” so I thought we could have a Mom/teenager date. I asked myself, “Vicki, is this movie making you feel good?” Myself replied, “This movie is making me angry, very sad, hopeless, and dirty-feeling.” As the onscreen obese gay man poked at the bloody intestines and told the fifth anal sex joke, I looked at my daughter, and we got up and walked out.

[Maelstorm]

I agree with the review. Year One was horrible.

[ExxonPatrolUs]

Better link to Victoria's review

[Puckster]

Homophobia is a constructed issue for those that are lukewarm and/or mindless.

In the provided scenarios I could make an example such as:

My son is invited over to a neighbor's house to play with their son, where, unknown to me, my son see their son kill kittens for fun.

The new logic being, if disgusted by this behavior, I have a phobia.

The rational mind is easily molded into contemporary form.

Thanks for confirming that disgust is a healthy reaction to that which is abhorrent.

[SamuraiScot]

It’s good he’s honest about the incredibly high percentage of child abusers among homosexuals. But normal folks (and civilized homosexuals) don’t want homosexuals around children, not just because parents are afraid of their sons being turned queer, and therefore childless, by the experience of being abused. It’s that they don’t want to see children abducted and murdered—a nasty habit of homosexual pederasts he doesn’t mention.

[TigerClaws]

Yes, but the “phobia” takes it from reasoned debate to questioning your motives (subconscious motives at that!).

Islamophobia. Another PR move. Instead of debate, those concerned about Sharia law in the U.S. (oh and those beheading homosexuals overseas) are now ‘phobic.’

Where’s Christophobia? Need to hire a PR firm to start getting MSM types to call any Christian bashing a phobia.

[goat granny]

Homophobe is a mongrel word and meaningless. The problem with homosexuals is that they are protected and wonted get out of your face and private space...they use to say they just wanted to be left alone....they were liars from the beginning...some religious leaders said in the beginning they were after your kids and people laughed at them and called them names....well, those that gave the warning were correct...I don't give sodomy any respect, and that's not politically correct....just shut up and live your life without attacking religion or religious business's...

Most are exhibitionist as seen the such thing as their parades...beyond hope of being decent humans. Those that live their lives like everyone else and stay out of peoples faces are not the problem, its the scum of both sexes that piss off most people...

a death sentence for rapers of children will sent a bunch back into the closet (their term) not mine. It also ticks me off that the msm uses the term molested in relation to those that rape boys....call them what they are rapists...no better than those that rape female children...

[TigerClaws]

It’s establishing a ‘new normal.’ MSM via TV and movies overloads ‘gay’ characters, presenting them only in a positive light. Any negatives and there are bans and protests.

[ExxonPatrolUs]

I wonder what the response will be in Saudi Arabia after the gay kiss in the Olympic opening ceremony
http://www.bleedingcool.com/forums/front-page-comic-news/61162-first-gay-kiss-saudi-arabian-tv.html

[Puckster]

Excellent, well put and simple.

The Truth is like that.

[TigerClaws]

They just chalk it up to the decadent west = Satan and we’re on the way to collapse.

The real goal for ‘gay marriage’ is gay couples can walk into any church in America. If the church refuses to marry them, the church loses its tax exempt status.

Basically, EVERY church in the U.S. will have to accept ‘gay marriage’ or be shut down.

That’s the whole ‘civil rights’ talk — co-opting that history, yes, but also setting up the lawsuits.

At some point Bibles will be banned from public schools for containing ‘hate speech’ against gays. Or they’ll omit those sections from Bibles.

Think that’s crazy?

It already happened in Canada where someone was convicted of ‘hate speech’ simply for quoting the Bible’s views on homosexuality.

[onyx]

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[montanajoe]

I don't like the gay agenda and therefore I dont like gays pushing their agenda.

As a matter of fact I don't like a lot of folks but I do not/could care less what they think.

What I will not abide is anyone telling me what I should think< I don't care. If I don't like you I don't like you..nothing will ever change that fact..