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Slimebeast on 19 July 2010
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Khuutra said:
Slimebeast said:

I never ever even implied that homophobia is only genetically determined.

It's multifactural, a combo between several genes together with environmental stimuli.

"If they gather people with every type of personality, wiped their memories clear, and told them homosexuality was normal, they would not have any homophobia."
You don't know this. But the term homohobia includes the repulsion I've been talking about (for anyone reading, homophobia is not just hate-speech and persecution). The natural aversion a typical heterosexual man (not all, but most!) feels towards the thought of licking another man's nuts. You don't take that away by erasing their memory.

Hold up. You can't equate heterosexuality with homophobia, that undermiens the meaning of the latter word. Attraction to the opposite sex is not the same thing as revulsion felt toward homosexuals.

I don't. Nowhere in that post did I refer to heterosexuality per se. Nothing about attraction whatsoever. Re-read the aversion part which is (partly) the root of homophobia.