Re: [Phys-L] A JD example: Re: [SCAAPT] Physics Colloquium: 11:15AM, Oct. 20, 2014 in PH2-110

[Bill Norwood <bnorwood111@gmail.com>]

One-worders are handy but they in no manner deal with the complex issue.

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 7:23 PM, Marty Weiss <martweiss@comcast.net> wrote:

> Does the word BIGOT come to mind?
>
> On Oct 17, 2014, at 6:43 PM, Bernard Cleyet wrote:
>
> > 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,
> it’s meaning is defined by the typical user, not necessarily by it’s
> etymology.
> > Etymology 1[edit]
> > homo (from homosexual) +‎ -phobia, coined in 1971 by George Weinberg in
> Society and the Healthy Homosexual.
> > 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
> discrimination against LGBT people. Some of these alternatives show more
> semantic transparency while others do not include -phobia:
> > Homoerotophobia, being a possible precursor term to homophobia, was
> coined by Wainwright Churchill and documented in Homosexual Behavior Among
> Males in 1967.
> > The etymology of homophobia citing the union of homos and phobos is the
> basis 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 and
> Ricketts 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, and
> discrimination 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, Davis
> Gregory 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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