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- noun
Fear orresentment of what is different. - noun
Fear orresentment of heterosexuals. - noun
Fear orresentment of theopposite sex .
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The recipients of the homophobia label include those who feel uncomfortable around homosexuals, those who reveal that they oppose "gays", and even those who may privately support homosexuality but who fail to publicly support homosexuals when called upon to do so. pro homosexual author Vernon A Wall Conservative Christians and other people who strongly object to homosexuality often take offense at this term, which had led to the use of the term heterophobia to describe those who manifest an antipathy to those who uphold heterosexuality as normative or exclusively valid.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Aschlafly 2010
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A man cannot express his feelings for a platonic female friend in such a manner not because of "heterophobia," if such a thing even exists, but because of heterosexuality.
Condition Critical James Taranto 2010
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Well, Sullivan obviously knows what is giving me the feeling of heterophobia coming from him.
"Of all the debates Sullivan has been embroiled in, his collision with the gay left is the hardest to reconstruct..." Ann Althouse 2009
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Thoughts on "heterophobia family pride day in london tomorrow"
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Labels: Andrew Sullivan, apologies, heterophobia, Richard Goldstein, same-sex marriage posted by Ann Althouse at 8:35 AM
"Of all the debates Sullivan has been embroiled in, his collision with the gay left is the hardest to reconstruct..." Ann Althouse 2009
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Some Gay men in particular manage to mix misogyny, hatred of women, with heterophobia, hatred of straights, and transphobia.
Girl Germs and Malice Zoe Brain 2008
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But what about all the decadent and effete people, the heterobics, who suffer from heterophobia?
"Gaycism." Ann Althouse 2007
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He looks neither particularly straight nor gay and, of course, doesn't seem to care too much either way, laughing off any suggestions of heterophobia in the fashion business.
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And is the wonderful world of fashion really tainted by heterophobia?
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While I don't know what Roopilots6 is trying to say with the heterophobia comment, his basic argument is concise and accurate.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Gnickson 2010
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