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Does the word BIGOT come to mind?
On Oct 17, 2014, at 6:43 PM, Bernard Cleyet wrote:
it’s meaning is defined by the typical user, not necessarily by it’s
On 2014, Oct 17, , at 02:50, Bill Norwood <bnorwood111@gmail.com> wrote:
And, please do not use the mindless homophobe word on me. Look up the
definition of phobia and you will see that this word is a misnomer.
“...on me.”?
Aaaa a prescriptivist — well it’s a recent neologism, and, therefore,
etymology.
Society and the Healthy Homosexual.
Etymology 1[edit]
homo (from homosexual) + -phobia, coined in 1971 by George Weinberg in
discrimination against LGBT people. Some of these alternatives show more
homophobia - Wiktionary
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/homophobia
This cirt. is more valid, I think.
Criticism of meaning and purpose
Distinctions and proposed alternatives
Researchers have proposed alternative terms to describe prejudice and
semantic transparency while others do not include -phobia:
Homoerotophobia, being a possible precursor term to homophobia, wascoined by Wainwright Churchill and documented in Homosexual Behavior Among
Males in 1967.
The etymology of homophobia citing the union of homos and phobos is thebasis for LGBT historian Boswell's criticism of the term and for his
suggestion in 1980 of the alternative homosexophobia.[102]
Homonegativity is based on the term homonegativism used by Hudson andRicketts in a 1980 paper; they coined the term for their research in order
to avoid homophobia, which they regarded as being unscientific in its
presumption of motivation.[103]
Heterosexism refers to a system of negative attitudes, bias, anddiscrimination in favour of opposite-sex sexual orientation and
relationships.[104] p. 13 It can include the presumption that everyone is
heterosexual or that opposite-sex attractions and relationships are the
only norm[105] and therefore superior.
Sexual prejudice – Researcher at the University of California, DavisGregory M. Herek preferred sexual prejudice as being descriptive, free of
presumptions about motivations, and lacking value judgments as to the
irrationality or immorality of those so labeled.[106][107] He compared
homophobia, heterosexism, and sexual prejudice, and, in preferring the
third term, noted that homophobia was "probably more widely used and more
often criticized." He also observed that "Its critics note that homophobia
implicitly suggests that antigay attitudes are best understood as an
irrational fear and that they represent a form of individual
psychopathology rather than a socially reinforced prejudice."
Homophobia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homophobia#Criticism_of_meaning_and_purpose
bc, attempts to speak (and write) “American"
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