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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
Blows out of the water that " internalized homophobia" is responsible for homosexuals higher mental problem rates.

Well, yes and no.

The charge that society, or individuals, are "homophobic" is in fact a projection of inner dread.

Naming that inner dread "internalized homophobia" is verbose and imprecise, but it's not entirely incorrect.

45 posted on 07/19/2004 6:32:26 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Now you go feed those hogs before they worry themselves into anemia!)
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To: Jim Noble

Actually, to start back at the beginning, there has been no scientifically validated studies proving that "internalized homopobia" even exists.

Just clearing things up, and to show that if the homosexual activists want to state that "internalized homophobia" does exist, contrary to science,, and if the media wants to advance this ridiculous, unproven notion, then they must also readily admit that the studies show that even in highly gay-affirming cultures the higher mental problem rates of homosexuals versus heterosexual don't disappear.


48 posted on 07/19/2004 6:42:16 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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To: Jim Noble
Actually, a large study, posted on this site last year, concluded that the overwhelmingly consistent reaction to homosexuality was disgust, making the word "homophobia" inaccurate. "Phobia" is a fear of something.

50 posted on 07/19/2004 7:30:34 AM PDT by William Terrell (Individuals can exist without government but government can't exist without individuals.)
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