Totally agree. I loved that album without agreeing with the majority of the content. Just cracks me up how people be acting all PC on social media, calling people out over shit they say, acting all high and mighty, then the same people be rapping along about killing their girlfriend while wearing a Charles Manson t-shirt. The hipocracy is hilarious.
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Homophobia, key part of that is Phobia which is another word for fear, I don't think I've ever seen anyone running from a gay person in fear. Seriously need to come up with a different word for people that simply don't like or disagree with homosexuality
I was referring to 'phobia' coming from the Greek for 'fear.' I mistakenly thought 'homo' was Latin, but in double checking, due to your question, it turns out to not be strictly Latin. So, I'm not so damn smart, am I?
I can't say that I'm any kind of definitive source on this, and I've not done exhaustive research. There are reportedly several languages that can lay claim to this "classical morpheme," including Greek. The 'homo' in 'homosexual' comes from Greek 'homos' meaning 'same' rather than Latin 'man.' In my original smartass comment, I was thinking that the term ought to be something like 'homodium' (homo+odium) or some other latin word for hate, but that would mean something like misanthropy. Mis-homo has a funny ring to it :) It has always seemed to me that homophobia was a poor description because the behavior associated with it seemed to me to be more about irrational hate than irrational fear.
WHEN YOU BELIEVE IN EQUAL RIGHTS FOR EVERYONE, REGARDLESS OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION; BUT YOUR FAVOURITE ALBUM IS EMINEM'S ODE TO HOMOPHOBIA, THE MARSHALL MATHERS LP