Posted by Simcha on August 3, 2001, at 8:00:50
In reply to Roots of Homophobia, seems Freud was right, posted by stjames on August 3, 2001, at 0:53:24
stjames,
Heh...Heh...Heh... ;-)
Sorry you were attacked buddy.... I'm glad to hear that the culprits got theirs from the very men they hate. ;-)
I was attacked in an alley in Chicago by three young men. I was walking with my date to his car. Three men came up from behind us and started to yell ,"Faggots, homos, sissies, queers!" (You'd think that they could be more imaginative.) Anyway they started to through bottles and rocks at us. All of a sudden one of them punches my date in the back of his head. My date went flying head first into a telephone poll. His head gashed open, blood was rushing out, and he was staggering.
I felt a ringing in my ears and I turned around and confronted our assailants. One of them had a stick. Another had a pipe. And another had a knife. I faced them and with all of my rage I said, "You better get the F*** out of here right now!" Then I ran at them. They fled!!!!
Half way down the alley I started to come to and I ran back to my friend. I brought him to a local bar and we got the police and an ambulance. One of the burly lesbian cops shook me and said, "You see these guys, you call us... You don't try anything..." She knew I was out for blood. I wanted to run them down with my car!!!
It's kind of interesting to think that those three young men might be gay themselves and in denial. I think it's kind of poetic justice that they have to live with the awful guilt of attacking their own kind.
> From: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/assault/roots/freud.html
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> Hostility and discrimination against homosexual individuals are well-established facts. On occasion, these negative attitudes lead to hostile verbal and physical acts against gay individuals with little apparent motivation except a strong dislike. In fact, more than 90% of gay men and lesbians report being targets of verbal abuse or threats, and more than one-third report being survivors of violence related to their homosexuality. Although negative attitudes and behaviors toward gay individuals have been assumed to be associated with rigid moralistic beliefs, sexual ignorance, and fear of homosexuality, the etiology of these attitudes and behaviors remains a puzzle. Weinberg ( 1972 ) labeled these attitudes and behaviors homophobia, which he defined as the dread of being in close quarters with homosexual men and women as well as irrational fear, hatred, and intolerance by heterosexual individuals of homosexual men and women.
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> Specifically, the present study was designed to investigate whether homophobic men show more sexual arousal to homosexual cues than nonhomophobic men as suggested by psychoanalytic theory. . . .
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> The results of this study indicate that individuals who score in the homophobic range and admit negative affect toward homosexuality demonstrate significant sexual arousal to male homosexual erotic stimuli.
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> James here...
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> The actual study is password protected but basically they showed gay porn to very homophobic men and not
> homophobic men. The homophobic men got erections and other signs of sexual arousal while the other group did not. Isn't that special ? I always wondered why 3 men jumped out of a car and knocked me to the ground and started kicking me, people I did not know and had done nothing to. They were quite surprized when a bar full of buff gay men attacked them. One was about to hit me with a baseball bat. Thank god for buff gay men.
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> james
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