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[quote="The Gay Blade!":bd755][quote=pest]

Originally Posted by "The Gay Blade!":bd755

This is a tony award winning play homophobe. About more than "gays". Good lord work on your masculinity.

I dont like watching shows about mormons either. Does that make me a mormaphobe too?[/quote:bd755]

If your overall objection is not to the subject matter, but to the blanket generalized dislike of mormons for no other reasons then they are mormons then yes. If you replaced Blacks with gays, this wouldnt be a discussion, it'd be clearly seen as a bigoted comment. Again I say to check your manhood and enjoy a Tony and Pulitzer winning piece of work.[/quote:bd755]

We arent talking bigotry, we are talking phobias. My dislike for gay programming doesnt make me scared of them. I cannot control blanket dislikes anymore than the next guy, its human. Our prejudices are based on our experiences and its impossible to not have them affect our decisions. Every time I choose a channel on my tv, I discriminate against the other 200 based on my likes and dislikes.

So, if this conversation was about blacks instead of gays, I would be blackaphobic and need to check my whiteness?

The word homophobe was coined by someone wishing to push their own personal agenda by purposefully putting a negative conotation on the opposing view. How very pc.