POSTED ON BEHALF OF ME:

Interesting juxtaposition, or hypocrisy - which ever way you want to look at it:

“I mean, really, who gives a damn?”

vs

“I nevertheless deplored the way this topic was treated at my children’s school - you know, now children, homosexuals are GOOD.”

Who gives a damn?  Apparently you do.  This is not the first time you have voiced your homophobic views.

Furthermore:  “But some teachers are jerks or incompetents…” careful Ms Dare, my grade five teacher used to say “Watch out when you point a finger at someone, there are always three pointing back at you.”

This discussion could be really interesting being christen Orthodox and memorized the Quran when I was 9 both of them have their hidden agenda and I do not want to be dragged to religious debate but I am willing to answer any question

Last time I checked Wain this forum is hosted by SQE and “Ms” Dare.

Don’t like it? You too have choices…...yet you choose to lend your own bias to Malkin’s own experience.

What makes you judge and jury of anyone’s personal perspective based on their experience?

Please point out what you describe as “homophobic views”. Those are your words based on your own assumptions. Not based on anything written in Malkin’s post.

Chuck

Ms. Dare’s views may not be homophobic, they may be heterosexist.  Here is a definition for you:

“Around the same time, heterosexism began to be used as a term analogous to sexism and racism, describing an ideological system that denies, denigrates, and stigmatizes any nonheterosexual form of behavior, identity, relationship, or community (Herek, 1990). Using the term heterosexism highlights the parallels between antigay sentiment and other forms of prejudice, such as racism, antisemitism, and sexism.”

Also:

“Scientific analysis of the psychology of antigay attitudes will be facilitated by a new term. Sexual prejudice serves this purpose nicely. Broadly conceived, sexual prejudice refers to all negative attitudes based on sexual orientation, whether the target is homosexual, bisexual, or heterosexual. Given the current social organization of sexuality, however, such prejudice is almost always directed at people who engage in homosexual behavior or label themselves gay, lesbian, or bisexual (Herek, 2000).

Like other types of prejudice, sexual prejudice has three principal features:

It is an attitude (i.e., an evaluation or judgment).
It is directed at a social group and its members.
It is negative, involving hostility or dislike.

Conceptualizing heterosexuals’ negative attitudes toward homosexuality and bisexuality as sexual prejudice – rather than homophobia – has several advantages. First, sexual prejudice is a descriptive term. Unlike homophobia, it conveys no a priori assumptions about the origins, dynamics, and underlying motivations of antigay attitudes.

Second, the term explicitly links the study of antigay hostility with the rich tradition of social psychological research on prejudice.

Third, using the construct of sexual prejudice does not require value judgments that antigay attitudes are inherently irrational or evil.”

These quotes come from a very enlightening article on the subject by a professor from UC Davis:  http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/rainbow/html/prej_defn.html.

Since it is highly advantageous for certain groups to marginalize gay people, denigrate their worth and seek to exclude their experiences from public discourse as displayed above, it should rightly have been defined as sexual prejudice, not homophobia.  I stand corrected.

” I stand corrected.”

You do no such thing Wain.

What you do is try to lead readers around to your own perspective.

It makes Malkin’s neither homophobic or biased.

You like to play at being non-judgemental but seriously dude, your words say otherwise.