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dutchy pink · Joined: 06 Feb 2007 Location: Incheon

While many issues are debated on this board, it seems homosexuality is taboo. Calling Koreans fools, sexist, ignorant, racist and backwards seems OK, but mentioning homophobia is not.
So, I wonder, how many people here are homophobic.

uberscheisse · Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Location: japan is better than korea.

i'll defend gay people to the death because their lifestyle really is not that outlandish, strange or scandalous.

however i clicked #3 because i really am repulsed by the idea of kissing a dude. just a personal instinctual reaction.

eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

I honestly don't care about peoples sexuality and never really think about it.

But I do think that gay people would be a little miffed if everyone was as indifferent as me. Something tells me the the "so what?" reaction isn't what gay people really want.

uberscheisse · Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Location: japan is better than korea.

laogaiguk · Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Location: somewhere in Korea

I am quite adverse to sleeping with a lady over 200 pounds or over the age of 40 (there could always be an exception though). There is nothing wrong with people thinking what you do is disgusting, as if they didn't have that right, you wouldn't have the right to do it either. It does not make them homophobic at all. Homophobia is actively trying to stop you from doing it when it doesn't affect them.

dutchy pink · Joined: 06 Feb 2007 Location: Incheon

How can there not be a point to always politicizing this issue?
Gay people are denied the rights that all non-gays enjoy. The right to marry, spend the dying days with your loved one in the hospital, adopt children together, share health insurance....
If these rights were denied to a person based on skin color, religion, place of birth, etc... it would be a different story.

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

I have no problem with people who are gay and gay marriage is just fine by me. But at the same time I don't think that faggots and dykes are sacred cows to be celebrated and honoured and held beyond any possible ridicule. I'm sure that I've made comments that some would criticise as homophobic when they were really just meant as a humorous contrast with conventional standars.

laogaiguk · Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Location: somewhere in Korea

kermo · Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 8:16 pm Post subject:

I don't think homophobia has to include "actively trying to stop it." I think being cruel, derisive and judgemental certainly qualifies (and I've seen plenty of it, quite openly, on this board.)

laogaiguk · Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Location: somewhere in Korea

dutchy pink · Joined: 06 Feb 2007 Location: Incheon

Yes, I am defining homophobia as Kermo did. I'm not talking the KKK of homophobia.

mikowee · Joined: 03 Aug 2006

I've got no problem with gays, but I'm more than a little uncomfortable when they hit on me. Especially those huge Argonaut types. Don't they have a gaydar wtf...

tigerbluekitty · Joined: 19 Apr 2007

I don't really have anything against gays either, except sometimes when lesbians hit on me it is a little creepy. Confused

oneofthesarahs · Joined: 05 Nov 2006 Location: Sacheon City

I love that most straight people can't say "Gay people are okay with me" without adding "as long as they don't hit on me." As if assuring everyone else that they are most certainly not gay. Just because you're fine with the existence of gay people doesn't mean you are gay! Stop being so defensive, people!

Alyallen · Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 8:54 pm Post subject:

Nope. They are just people....