Homophobia. A misleading label

[Dotard]

Is this an expression of a fear of being sexually assaulted?

Is this fear simply based on their sexual preference alone? Just being in the presence of one who is gay or bisexual is enough to provoke this state?

Do you have similar fears around heterosexual but unattractive women whom you would not consent to?

If your answers are, in order, "yes, yes, yes, no", are you beginning to understand how these feelings of rape anxiety qualify as a phobia, however mild, of gays?

Well, my answers would be "No. It was a joke." "Maybe/unsure". "Yes". and "Yes".

Are you beginning to understand I'm not fitting your text-book definition of homophobia?

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I wasn't going to post this but after a bit of thought I thought it may be relevant;


28 Oct. 2010 Dotard was carted to the E.R. at the local hospital. Approx. 10-12 years ago I was in a pretty nasty mountain bike accident. I fell off the damned mountain.

Shattered my spleen, broke 3 ribs, cracked the collar bone (left side) and pretty much jumbled the internals around pretty bad causing some additional internal damages in addition to the splattered spleen.

Years later all the scar tissue within me will cause my gastro system to twist and get caught up in the scar tissue. When it happens it is some major pain. It'll put me on the floor in the fetal position pretty quick. That's how intense the pain can be. I digress. Point is I was carted to the E.R.


A homosexual (how did you know he was homo?, you might say. I'll just say it was pretty obvious.) shoved a tube through my nose down into my throat and was my care giver thru this process of Triage.

Surgery is the last resort to correct/prevent this from happening. The doctor has determined this has occured enough to warrent surgery and we are setting an appointment for this to happen. My doctor/surgeon is a woman. I don't know if she is gay or not, but she sure looks most butch to me.

I would think, and ask our readers to post what they think on this, that if my sexual prejudice qualified as a "Phobia", would I not be refusing a homosexual care taker? Wouldn't I be requesting a change of nurses and doctor if I was truely 'phobic'?