Homophobia

Homophobia

This word talks about to the uncomfortable or hatred towards homosexuality and homosexuals in particular male.

The homophobia isn’t a phobia because:
1. In phobias, the mainemotion is fear, whereas homophobia is hatred. A person may express homophobic feelings as moderate discomfort, rejection and repulsion for homosexuals, or how severe rejection which can get hit, injure orkill homosexuals.
2. In phobias, the person affected seeks to escape from what causes fear. Victims of homophobia seeking silence, denigrate, humiliate and destroy, symbolically or physically, tohomosexuals.
3. A person with phobia known to have, a homophobic person doesn’t know his condition and seeks to expand hate others.

  | FOBHIAS | HOMOPHOBIAS |
EMOTION | Fear | Hate |
 CONDUCT|  Avoid | Approach and challenge |
SOCIAL INFECTION | A person with phobia doesn’t seek to pass on to others. |  A person with homophobia uses strategies to pass to those who are around him. |DISORDER |   Generally present |   Absent in most cases. |
Difference between phobias and homophobias:

Homophobia located between heterosexual and homosexual equally but homophobia is different inhomosexuals than in heterosexuals.
Differences between homophobia heterosexual and homosexual

  | HOMOPHOBIA IN HETEROSEXUAL | HOMOPHOBIA IN HOMOSEXUAL |
LANGUAGE | Abuse
("You're a sick").Fantasies of superiority
("Heterosexuals are better people") |  NEGATIVE thoughts
("I’m a degenerate")
Fantasies of inferiority
("If I were heterosexual would be better") |
 EXCLUSION |Discriminatory conduct:
to external barriers to prevent access to certain objects (work, health, and friends). | Shame, guilt, low self-esteem:
internal barriers that prevent take risks and access tonew and better opportunities. |
 ABUSE | Beatings and physical abuse. | Self-destructive behavior
(alcohol and drug abuse, unprotected sex) |
 EXTREAM EXPRESSION OF HATRED | Murder | Suicide |...