• @exanime@lemmy.today
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    110 months ago

    I think they so often are claimed to be

    They portrait themselves as raging homophobics just to then pretend to be gay? I don’t follow

    • Flying Squid
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      410 months ago

      I think that other people often make the claim that homophobes are secretly gay and I’m asking if we actually know how many, even based on a rough estimate, that applies to. If not, it’s a spurious and rather disturbing claim.

      • @exanime@lemmy.today
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        10 months ago

        This is exactly how stereotypes work. And no, they should not be taking super seriously even if they do tend to come from some real life examples

        Personally, I am not super concerned if claims against homophobes are spurious, they do not seem to mind claiming gay people are pedophiles in disguise for example

        • Flying Squid
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          310 months ago

          But as I said, it suggests that queer people are the homophobes. That’s my issue. It lessens the bigotry issue if the implication is that cishet people aren’t the ones being homophobic.

          • @exanime@lemmy.today
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            010 months ago

            Not it doesn’t… some fruits are apples, apples are not all fruit

            Again, I do not know what you are fishing for but I don’t care to follow

            • Flying Squid
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              410 months ago

              Yes it does, since every time someone is in the news for being homophobic, people chime in to say they’re in the closet. Every single time.