Is homophobia capable of being 'cured'?

Stay me with flagons.

I could comfort you with apples, absent!

About time too!

Ariadne Thanks

Of course, homophobia (such a silly word) is not a disease or medical condition so "curing" isn't exactly the practice. However, clearly, people with entrenched positions (is that a familiar subject?) are apparently capable of eventually recognising that they have been wrong all along. That has to be a good thing.

Just a bit of a play on words, absent, as this bunch have been claiming to cure homosexuality for a long time! I know you didn't think that I thought it was a medical condition!

Yes it IS a silly word - 'a morbid fear of the same' - means nothing, really...

Ignorance and bigotry capable of being 'cured'? When 'hurray' for this particular example

Perhaps if my casual choice of word causes problems, somebody can change them! Does it really matter? Does it invalidate the whole thread?

On second thoughts, perhaps 'a morbid fear of homosexuality' is exactly what drove these bigots!

Shite me! he's gay himself!

I saw on Fb a couple of days ago "if you don't like homosexuality blame the heterosexuals because they are the ones which keep producing them!"

Sorry for expletive there

I wonder if some men get very upset if their sons are gay because they fear people will think it is hereditary? I know several homosexual men and most say their mothers were able to accept it much more easily than their fathers.

Quite happy with the word 'cured' .. We all know what is meant

Interestingly i work with a regional LGBT group, and at a recent training session they explained that some gay people have grown up in an environment with anti gay attitudes, and so internalize the self hatred, refusing to acknowledge that they are Gay, and becoming very homophobic in attitude. A blind survey was carried out, using equipment to measure straight mens arousal when watching porn - all men got aroused watching M- F, F- F, but only those that had displayed overtly anti- gay and homophobic views got aroused watching M-M

Next time yrou hear such views -ask yourself, do they protect too much?

Yes, of course I know what Greatnan meant and appreciated her play on words, especially as it was signalled with quotation marks.