Monday, April 11, 2011
Homophobia
As with a lot of differences among us, homosexuality is yet another fuel for harassment. Everybody know it's a bad thing to not respect it, so why does things like bullying actually happen anyway? I think that it origins from a need of attention, it is a social thing to discuss someone else, in secret or out loud. So it is a group thing most often, I haven't seen a bully not using people around him/her. The focus is not what you say, but the basic need of being part of something, so it is only the amount of attention that drives this. When it comes to actual homophobia, it's about feeling uncomfortable with the difference. Maybe there is a fear of the hypothetical interaction between oneself and someone of the same sex. This is just something to work on I guess, I think people with homophobia still knows intellectually that homosexuals will not attack them, like kiss them using force etc, it is just rejecting emotion, feeling or even instinct that they need to try to put to perspective.
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I completly agree with you richard, bullying is type of fuel for ones self. It really is a someone crying out for attention maybe even due to their own insecurities so they feel they need to bring out others insecurities as well.
ReplyDeleteLike Crystal, I agree with you. Most bullies are peeps who feel bad about themselves and wanna bring others down with them.
ReplyDeleteI agree that people that are usually homophobic don't understand the gays and don not want to. To keep it simple people fear what they do not understand. My gay friends are some of the funnest people to hangout with because their usually in a good mood. At times some of their friends hit on me, but I simply tell them that I am straight and they drop the subject. I see a gay guy hitting on me the same as a girl that I am not interested in, hitting on me. It is sad that people always find a reason to bully someone if it is not race, it is religion, and now sexual preference. What is next?
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