(March 27, 2014 at 3:25 pm)Tonus Wrote:(March 27, 2014 at 3:20 pm)Deidre32 Wrote: Phobias sometimes stem from how a person views a situation, ethically. If he feels "it's wrong," there is no argument that will satisfy him.
I am of the opinion that we usually do not know the reason we take a particular stance on many issues, and since we are wired to HAVE TO KNOW, we mostly just invent motivations and then try to fit ourselves into them. A person may have completely irrational reasons to want to force the world to fit into his narrow viewpoint. Not knowing what they are, he will invent rationalizations that seem logical or at least defensible.
This makes me think of what transphobic people really fear under all the rationalizations, and I think it might have to do with being afraid of being "duped" by a trans person. A few years ago I was in a discussion and there were a lot of people who very afraid of being "duped" into a relationship with someone who used to be a different gender, and the thought sickened them. And so, they said trans people were mentally ill and that they weren't going to respect their choice to become a different gender. "He can pretend to be a woman, but I'm still calling him 'sir'!"
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