re: #455 Gus 802

Maybe we’re just employing semantics on this homophobia question? The word is largely accepted to describe similar phenomenons. There’s no doubt that it will change over the years. Otherwise we might have a case of phobophobia. ;)

Phobia is from the greek word phobos, fear, which is also the name of one of mars’ moons IIRC. The other is deimos, terror. Since Mars was the god of war, it made sense for the moons to be named after fear and terror.

There’s nothing clinical or weird about appending ‘phobia’ to something to mean ‘fear of’. Homophobia is not in the DSM-IV and no one thinks it should be.