• Quick note - the problem with Youtube videos not embedding on the forum appears to have been fixed, thanks to ZiprHead. If you do still see problems let me know.

When was homophobia invented?

EGarrett said:
1) Went through an engagement that showed no specific affection.
2) Never married or had a girlfriend after.
3) Lived with another man for 15 years, multiple people who knew them questioned the nature of his relationship which I don't see any mention of him denying, and was depressed when the man left and "went a wooing" to several gentlemen.
4) Wrote of marrying an old maid who didn't expect any romance.

Let's consider this established and move on with the topic.
Click to expand...

He could've been asexual.
 
Red3 said:
He could've been asexual.
Click to expand...

He was two dwarfs of opposite sex, the male standing on the female's shoulders.

Both dwarfs were actually gay, though the female said she was "just experimenting". I don't know about how other scientists work, but there's an upper limit to number of experiments before you're expected to come up with a theory.
 
phobia - Greek - a morbid fear
homo - Greek for 'the same' (as in 'homonym')

What that has to do with homosexuality I don't know...
 
ChrisH said:
phobia - Greek - a morbid fear
homo - Greek for 'the same' (as in 'homonym')

What that has to do with homosexuality I don't know...
Click to expand...

Actually, the etymology is

ho - Greek for "prostitute" (Iliad: "Where the hos at?")
mopho - Greek for "form, shape" ("transform", "morphology")
bi - Greek for "two" ("bicycle", "bishounen")
a - Greek for "A". (Sesame Street: "Brought to you by the letter A")

So "homophobia" actually means "two Grade-A shapeshifting prostitutes". I think we can all relate to that particular fantasy. There are some websites with fanciful renderings of what that might look like.
 
AvalonXQ said:
... which are perfectly matched up with the two dwarfs who make up Buchanan. Theory confirmed.
Click to expand...

If they could shapeshift, they could have just shapeshifted into a taller person and dispensed with the totem pole action. Unless...they can only shapeshift into the form of dwarfs. Sounds like someone made a poorly-worded wish to a genie at some point.
 
Jekyll's Guest said:
How ridiculous.

If I could shapeshift I'd be engaging in multiple totem pole action.
Click to expand...

And if I could shapeshift, I'd become Mecha Diplodocus God of All and rule with iron feet in iron boots and civilization would tremble before my power. I guess we're just different people.
 
jayh said:
plus they're brother and sister... this gets weird
Click to expand...

It would only be weird if they hadn't exchanged bodies through a precedent-setting three day brain transplant surgery. That balances everything out to make it normal again. Interesting sidenote: the surgeon was a young Robert E. Lee.
 
sillyhead said:
This is why gay people can't work with BSA/GSA, because of uh, ...people...who think like this.
Click to expand...

So gays can't work with BSA/GSA because people don't understand basic logic? "P is a subset of H" does not imply "H is a subset of P". (P = pederasts; H = homosexuals).
 
Tsukasa Buddha said:
Thomas Jefferson:



Linky.

Greeks and Romans did pederasty, not so much with homosexuality. Even Oscar Wilde considered himself a pederast in the same tradition.

Of course, you are presenting this assuming a single cultural history. Interestingly, the term "homosexual" was invented a a number of years prior to the first utterance of "heterosexual".
Click to expand...

I don't know that Romans were strictly pederasts. They did not seem so concerned with the age of the lower status partner but the status.

Roman sexual morality was very rigid but along different lines that we see, for example oral sex is not the taboo it was in roman times, were the thought that a roman male might go down on his wife would be fairly serious libel.
 
IIRC homophobia was invented in 1972. The same year the Ford Pinto came out. Historically speaking, '72 was not exactly a milestone year...
 
1672. A comparatively unremarkable year at the height of the renaissance. But not for Sir John T. Crickton, Lord Hackville, an English nobleman and amateur inventor. Among his achievements were the Crickton Watch, renowned for being the only clock that showed the exact right time - but only twice a day. His less successful inventions involved the Cricktonmobile, a supposed improvement over da Vinci's failed gyrocopter, operated by hand-crank rather then pedally.

One day, a spring morning, a messenger arrived from the mighty King of England, who knew of Crickton's expositions, and his fervent desire for improving the everyday life of his fellow Englishmen. The messenger brought report from the court of the King, where the manservants of the king were engaged in mysterious, private exchanges - often accompanied by beastly roars and rattling furnishings. The king knew not to do with his men, and thus asked for Crickton to find a solution to the problem.

Crickton knew full and well of the classic Aristotlean dilemma of the benevolent monarch - who would only harshly punish his servants at the mercy of sound morals. Thus, whenever the King wanted to get something done that went against the current morals, such as intervening in the dubious affairs of his manservants in order to get them to work, morals would have to be refined!

For many days and nights, Crickton worked. Was there a way to make loud roars immoral? Rattling furnishing? No, to the first - that would force the Men of the State to intervene in every public house. No, to the second - His aunt would get so disappointed if she was forced to get out of the rocking chair. Thus, there was only one way - Invent a moral guidance, that prevents men from being in the same room, roaring and rattling furnishings, at the same time. John Thomas Crickton called this invention "Homophobia".

Exactly why the provisions against manservants breaking chairs over each other over who drank the last keg of ale was extended to shunning and persecution of homosexuals is unknown.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Back
Top Bottom