06-20-2012, 05:22 PM
i read this early this morning "Internalized Homophobia", someone here at gayspeak so thanks up front. It appears to be a clinical term.
got me to thinking how I myself have exhibit this (not to be un accepting of my history):
-it has diminished my self love?, form time to time, I only love myself 0.70, Could cause me to look in the mirror and only accept what I see as less than functional. I go off to put the best spin on what I believe to less than a 1.00
-I have always had a feminine side and a masculine side. Not consistently, but I have pushed the masculine side to its absolute limits. Never did so with the feminine side but if I did would I have been more gay at a younger age and a stronger runner?
-would this cause a totally gay man to appreciate a more masculine partner?
-is homophobia in general a learned emotion or is it like cigarettes (we have lips for a reason)?
so the question to start the thread, do you feel this (as an internal thing) in others or your self. How has it changed your life.
got me to thinking how I myself have exhibit this (not to be un accepting of my history):
-it has diminished my self love?, form time to time, I only love myself 0.70, Could cause me to look in the mirror and only accept what I see as less than functional. I go off to put the best spin on what I believe to less than a 1.00
-I have always had a feminine side and a masculine side. Not consistently, but I have pushed the masculine side to its absolute limits. Never did so with the feminine side but if I did would I have been more gay at a younger age and a stronger runner?
-would this cause a totally gay man to appreciate a more masculine partner?
-is homophobia in general a learned emotion or is it like cigarettes (we have lips for a reason)?
so the question to start the thread, do you feel this (as an internal thing) in others or your self. How has it changed your life.