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Stop using -phobic for anything other than “fear of”. For example, it’s not “homo-phobia”. I’m not afraid of homosexuals, I just think gays are disgusting, lesbians are weird, and trans are batshit psychotic.
-phobic also means "repelled by" or "lacks an affinity to". There's numerous compounds (often used as a barrier layer on things) that are designed to be hydro-phobic, oleo-phobic, ice-phobic, omni-phobic...
One could argue that mechanical/chemical functions are involved in your examples, which is not the case on the definition I was referring to. Either way, -phobia is not a good representation of the emotion I feel when confronted with gay imagery.
you could say the same about a lot of "phobias". Anarchnophobia comes to mind. There is absolutely nothing phobic about your brain being scared of a small creature which may or may not be poisonous and kill you in under 10 minutes
Islamophobia doesn't exist. There's nothing irrational about being wary of a medieval death-cult that is 100% okay with torturing nonbelievers to death and thinks fucking livestock is a good time.
No, but the fear needs to be irrational to be regarded as a phobia. Being black widow-phobic wouldn’t make sense, because fear of black widows is entirely rational. But arachnophobia implies an irrational fear of all spiders, and getting panicked by a daddy long legs isn’t really that rational. However, apparently fear of spiders is innate in humans because they don’t appear to be at all threatening but obviously very much are so there’s a theory that we are born with an instinctive fear of them as an evolutionary development.
How is that not a phobia?
It's not a phobia in that its not irrational. Its completely normal to be scared or phobic of an item which has the unknown potential to kill you. Same with snakes, and small critters, who are known to carry disease
I tell people that too , a phobia is an unreasonable fear of something, it's not unreasonable to fear disgusting and degenerate freaks.
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