Homophobia And Women

A same-sex male couple is sitting in a restaurant enjoying their dinner together. Throughout the night, the couple gets plenty of stares and snickers from people around the room. Later that night, a man comes up to them and snaps an aggressive comment about how homosexuality is a sin and proceeds to walk out of the restaurant. The couple isn’t fazed because they’ve heard it all before. Right after the man walks out of the restaurant, a woman walks over to them and yells, “What did women ever do to you?!” This question shocks them because the woman isn’t addressing the fact that they are gay, but she’s addressing what she and women might have done to make them gay. These are two separate examples of how women and men demonstrate their homophobic …show more content…
It could be based on how mentally healthy a person is. It is more common for a person with better mental health to not be homophobic. A new study was done in Italy that showed how homophobia is more often a trait in flawed personalities (Pappas). If a person is unstable in terms of health, they are more likely to have dislike towards certain things. Women and men are both perceptible to all kinds of psychological issues which could make them more homophobic than someone else. Also, if a person is educated on the subject, they are less likely to be homophobic based on the fact that they have learned about it and can form an opinion about it (Cozza). Younger people usually have a better understanding on the subject because their generation has been exposed to it or have learned about it, whereas someone older may have lived during a time where it wasn’t accepted or even talked about, like during the AIDS epidemic. The main reason homophobia even began was because when the AIDS epidemic began, people associated it with homosexual people only, which was untrue. In regards to that belief, many seemed to associate being gay as a disease because someone who was gay was more likely to get the AIDS disease, which we now know is also …show more content…
Saying that men are harsher with their opinions isn’t accurate because women could have the same amount of harshness and in some cases, women can be harsher than men. All in all, there isn’t one gender that is more homophobic than the other. Both genders demonstrate homophobia in different ways, whether it’s verbally or physically. If a woman were to walk up to a same-sex couple and scream at them followed by a man coming over also being homophobic, most times the couple would be slightly confused on which one was actually worse than the other. In reality, both were probably just as bad, but based on the gender one might have been worse than the other. Either way, homophobia comes from all over and no one gender is responsible for