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Originally Posted by swinearefine

I hope you're not being serious. Homophobic people always deny being homophobic because they are not afraid of homosexuality, because for some reason they suddenly become linguists and decide to dissect the word, despite the fact that the suffix phobia means eithe irrational fear or dislike of something, and it could be argued that irrational dislikes stem from a fear e.g. fear that homophobia will invade their lives and pollute society or whatever. I find that homophobic guys often decide to become etymologists over the weird because they want to seem like "macho straight guys" and show that they're not afraid of anything... really pathetic.

But anyway I can't tell if you were joking or not, but if not, let's not try to be an etymologist all of a sudden, please. It's so annoying

But it's not an irrational dislike.