{"id":3999,"date":"2010-12-30T12:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T12:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2010\/12\/chris-brown-has-homophobic-rant.html"},"modified":"2010-12-30T12:13:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T12:13:00","slug":"chris-brown-has-homophobic-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2010\/12\/chris-brown-has-homophobic-rant.html","title":{"rendered":"Chris Brown has homophobic rant?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

OK, I admit that I vaguely know who Chris Brown is.\u00a0 I know even less about anyone who goes by the moniker Raz-B.\u00a0 What caught my eye was the headline: Chris Brown launches into homophobic Twitter feud with Raz-B<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That word \u2018Homophobic\u2019 is what caught my eye.\u00a0 The easy, casual way in which it was used.\u00a0 I wonder does anyone know or think about what the term means?\u00a0\u00a0 Homophobic.\u00a0 I know what it is supposed to mean \u2013 anyone who doesn\u2019t embrace the gay rights movement and the dogmatic liberal definition of morality regarding the issue of homosexuality.\u00a0 But the way it is used.\u00a0 Phobia means, basically, an irrational fear of something.\u00a0 For instance, I\u2019m\u00a0claustrophobic.\u00a0 That\u2019s why I don\u2019t fly.\u00a0 Not because I\u2019m scared of heights, or flying.\u00a0 I just can\u2019t stand being locked into an airplane.\u00a0 To me, it\u2019s the same as being locked into a submarine.\u00a0 You\u2019re in, you\u2019re locked in, that\u2019s it.\u00a0 When we went to Disneyworld some years ago with my wife\u2019s family, and they talked me into going on the 20000 Leaggues Under the Sea<\/em> ride, I almost flipped.\u00a0 It was almost ankles, knees, and elbows getting out of that thing. <\/p>\n

I know it\u2019s irrational.\u00a0 I just can\u2019t seem to do anything about it.\u00a0 Now many fears can be fears, and can become irrational, even if they are\u00a0rational to begin with.\u00a0 For instance, my second oldest son was attacked once by a cat we used to own.\u00a0 Clawed him up and bit his leg up.\u00a0 He still has the scars.\u00a0 He is, understandably, shy about getting near cats to this day.\u00a0 While some of that could be labeled phobic, it\u2019s obviously not without warrant.\u00a0 And while it could become a phobia, there is obviously some logic behind its source.\u00a0 Likewise other fears, like a fear of tornadoes, are not illogical at all. <\/p>\n

For me, if I was \u2018afraid\u2019 of homosexuals, it wouldn\u2019t\u00a0necessarily be an irrational fear.\u00a0 The fact that homosexuals still rate high on such lists as HIV, AIDS, mental and emotional problems, disproportionally high rates of infections due to the unique nature of homosexual sexual behavior, and a continued difficulty with drug abuse within the gay\u00a0community, all suggest that if there was a \u2018fear\u2019 of homosexuality, it wouldn\u2019t necessarily be phobic.\u00a0 It might become that.\u00a0 It could move into the realm of irrational.\u00a0 But there is, to my thinking, at least some argument to substantiate a hestitancy toward that particular behavior.\u00a0 Especially if I\u2019m the father of four boys. <\/p>\n

Beyond that, of course, is the fact that some may simply disagree with the premises that allow for accepting\u00a0homosexual behavior as normative for human nature.\u00a0 \u2018Fear\u2019 may have nothing to do with it.\u00a0 I can say I don\u2019t like anchovies on my pizza.\u00a0 Not because I am anchophobic.\u00a0 But because\u00a0I don\u2019t like anchovies.\u00a0 I can say I am not a Socialist.\u00a0 Not because I am socialismaphobic, but because I\u2019ve looked and concluded that Socialism may not be all that and a bag of chips. Some of the reasons to reject the premises upon which accepting homoexuality rests may be religious.\u00a0 Perhaps philosophical.\u00a0 Or, dare I say, a feeling that hestitancy toward that behavior could actually be the result of a certain level of common sense. <\/p>\n

I realize our modern enforcers of Goodthink have dictated that this word now means anything that fails to conform to the groupthink celebration of all post-Christian sexual norms.\u00a0 Nonetheless, I find it interesting how an age that prides itself on being infinitely\u00a0superior to any previous eras and generations, and so absolutely enlightened, doesn\u2019t seem to care about little things like facts, truth, stats, or any other inconveniences.\u00a0It doesn\u2019t give a rip over something like what a word really means.\u00a0It doesn\u2019t care that there could be nuanced degrees of belief or acceptance or rejection of something. \u00a0Somewhere I missed that being enlightened means smart enough to know when to ignore truth and reality.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

In the end,\u00a0it\u2019s the pompous, self-righteous arrogance and intellectually vacant laziness that goes behind the easily tossed about term \u2018homophobic\u2019 that is one of those things giving me the gut feeling that many really don\u2019t believe their case is all that good.\u00a0 They know, somewhere deep down, that things may not be all Queer as Folk<\/em> as they would like.\u00a0 But rather than concede such a horrible notion, they instead use a rather misused and abused word with virtually no substance in order to intimidate, scare, and threaten anyone who dares to challenge the authority of their post-modern dogmas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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