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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
Are bananas oppressed? Buttons? Balloons maybe?
Small spaces? Crowds?
Clowns? Are we in the midst of a terrible culture of clown oppression?
How about dogs, horses, spiders? Silk? Velcro?
The answer I'm looking for there is "no". And yet there are phobias for all of those things.
A phobia is an irrational fear. Nothing more, nothing less. It has nothing to do with oppression. It has nothing to do with how one responds to that fear.
If there are people in the world who are irrationally scared of people because they are straight - if there is even one person who can be described such - then yes, heterophobia exists.
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..I would oppress, supress, prejudice against and physically abuse any balloon that ever came into my space...
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