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She talks about how homosexuals are dangerous because of pedophilia, and that having an aversion towards homosexuals isn't the same thing homophobia; you can th

• dragonwriter 7y ago
  “Homophobia” is a term adopted for bigotry against homosexuals, not fear of homosexuals (“-phobia” in general does not mean exclusively fear, though that's the most common single-word interpretation.) Homophobia and transphobia denote the same attitude toward gay and trans people, respectively, that misogyny denotes toward women, despite the fact that th prefix “mis-” and the suffix “-phobia” aren't exactly equivalent in range of meaning. But, yeah, that's been an argument by homophobes to argue that their homophobia isn't homophobia for decades, and even if it wasn't ignorant of the general use of tg suffix, it would still only be an argument that the word “homophobia” was a sui generis idiom rather than an obvious combination of it's etymological components (which it arguably is anyway, since “homo-” is short for “homosexual” rather than being a normal use of the prefix), rather than an actual argument against what they exhibit actually being what is denoted by the term.