• Phen@lemmy.eco.br
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    3 months ago

    My mother in law has no problem with M/M but complains about lesbians (says it’s disgusting) - I then assumed homophobes are bothered more about gays of their own gender in general.

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      3 months ago

      That’s fair, most people who are loudly anti-gay tend to be male. Mostly because the “loudly anti-gay” group tends to overlap significantly with the "anti-women- group.

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        3 months ago

        A lot.of anti-gay males are afraid of being treated the way the cis guys treat women as just a sexual object.

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      3 months ago

      I also see a lot of anti-lesbian stuff from women. Tbh, I see more of it in my own personal life than I do anti-gay men, but that’s just my experience, I don’t know if that’s also the reality (I imagine it varies by area/culture too).

      And yeah I agree with your theory that people seem more bothered about same-sex relations for their own sex.