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Originally Posted by iRyan
This. Straight people are not oppressed and that's where this discussion ends.
The only reason gay people could be afraid of straight people is because of the way they have been treated by straight people.
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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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