re: #431 buzzsawmonkey

Most anti-homosexual prejudice has nothing to do with “fear” (i.e., “phobia”)—at least, not in any real sense.

Well, most anti-foreigner prejudice has nothing to do with “fear” — at least, not in any real sense — so why aren’t you denouncing the word “xenophobia”?

For that matter, most “trivia” has nothing whatsoever to do with the meeting point of three roads (Latin tres + via) — so what? Etymology is not meaning.

The reality is that some people tend to have a fucking cow when other people suggest that same-sex attraction is fully within the range of “NORMAL adult sexual variation”, and as there’s no word in Greek denoting “the tendency to have a fucking cow,” we’ll just have to make do with “-phobia”, even though few if any people literally FEAR homosexuals in the same sense that some people fear snakes or heights.