Homophobia used in a sentence

Homophobia in a sentence as a noun

I understood the quote as an insult to nerds who are afraid to talk to women and not as homophobia.

So, for those keeping score: misogyny = bad, homophobia = win!

I understand your point and I'm in no way advocating homophobia, but isn't your point still ad hominem?

If calling out homophobia is a liability, then I'm happy to be guilty as charged.

I am all for gay marriage and I have a deep dislike of homophobia. But I am concerned about some of the reactions to Mozilla because of Brendan Eich's position.

Or homophobia. These are, after all, very natural expressions of revulsion and disgust for people not like ourselves, and we cannot be faulted for our instincts.

If you want to make a joke about homophobia, make a leather gun that decks a bad guy out in a leather outfit with assless chaps, temporarily incapacitating his friends as they laugh at him. Blammo -- joke's on them!

Misogyny, homophobia, racism, even slurs against programmers on the basis of their tool chocies: These are all offensive to me, and I wish to change that for my own reasons. If a man hits his wife, I call the police.

Maybe it's cultural context, but in my book homophobia has nothing to do with legitimate political beliefs. Being conservative has nothing at all to do with bigotry.

Of course, the overall homophobia thing is roughly speaking a case of pitchfork/rumour, people who become bigots through hearing that they ought to be, not any logic at all.

But for every post in SRS, I encounter dozens of trolls every day that are downvoted for homophobia, racism and misogyny.

Are we seriously replacing sexism with homophobia? Your analogy is far more offensive than the penis joke it's supposed to represent.

> Is the idea that if we villify [homophobia] enough and those that express them, they will eventually go away? Yes. It's been generally working with racism, sexism, classism, and a bunch of other bad -isms.

No matter how rich, powerful and competent you are, you live in fear of the opinion makers accusing you of sexism/homophobia/insensitivity/etc. Definitely makes it clear where the real power lies in our society.

Casual sexism, misogyny, racism, homophobia, etc. for a laugh brings the entire discussion down to a level that I don't have any desire to participate in.

Words like "sexist", "sexism", "homophobia", and "racism" are jargon for the folks studying gender, psychology, sociology. The common usage, the descriptive usage you see in dictionaries, is not appropriate and will only confuse things.

Radical/non-intersectional feminists even tried to do the same to groups fighting against other forms of discrimination such as racism and homophobia.

Disclaimer: I'm comparing misogyny to racism and transphobia to homophobia. Apples and oranges.

Nick needs to grow the **** up and understand that unwanted dickjoking and homophobia isn't funny outside his special little circle of friends, but Github need to understand there's millions of idiot-Nicks out there, and ensure their product doesn't even allow this sort of behaviour to start.

Not every criticism of abusive corporate and government practice amounts to communism, not every criticism of religious intolerance amounts to witchcraft, not every criticism of homophobia amounts to pedophilia, and not every criticism of a vague, venting blog post vaguely complaining about sexist treatment without really illustrating it amounts to sexism. I really don't give a **** whether you think I'm a sexist or not: frankly, the fact that you jump to that rather than actually engaging any of my points says more about you than about me.