doi: 10.1037//0021-843x.105.3.440

  • conicalscientist@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Most of what I learned about LGBTQ came from homophobes. The ones who would not shut up about it.

    For example when I didn’t know that rainbows were associated with the community. I had friend school over one time. He saw a blanket with a rainbow stripe pattern. He basically had a gay panic meltdown. He was so certain we were a family of closeted gays.

    So anyways later on he got a degree from a bible college or something. And he joined an evangelical church. One where they travel around to city streets around preaching from megaphones. Kind of like that Westboro Baptist thing.

    In our early 20s he sexually assault me. I found out later from another guy we went to school with that he also forced himself on that guy too.

    He’s not the only person I’ve known like this but certainly the most crazy one.

    If there’s any true to the saying that gays rub their identity in everyone’s face. Then it’s the homophobe ones. It’s got to be a massive projection. It’s like they’re trying to tell the world but it manifests as some kind of self-hate in denial or something.

    • RagingRobot@lemmy.world
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      The rubbing it in your face bit always got me. It sounds like something a jealous person would say. Like why do they get to suck dick and I can’t!

      • Angry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.world
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        You have just figured out 40% of GOP insanity right there.

        “How does he get to be a pretty woman when I cant? Well I’ll show him!” (the misgendering was intentional and hypothetical to make a point, mods pls)