(July 17, 2020 at 1:24 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:(July 17, 2020 at 11:45 am)masoni Wrote: people who hate gay people really only hate themselves and need someone to take it out on. you'll notice you never meet happy homophobes who have good lives, because people who are actually happy could never care about someone else's sexuality. you can be sure if someone hates gay people, it's only because they're jealous that gay people are happy and out of the closet and they are not.Beating up gays, even killing them, was a sport when I was a teenager. Guys that realized they were gay but couldn't deal with it often "took the reciprocal bearing", becoming overly macho.
I read that antigay violence can be seen primarily as an extreme manifestation of pervasive cultural norms rather than as a manifestation of individual hatred.
