Comment Re:Remove fear labeling to start objective discuss (Score 1) 704
We don't call it "race-phobia" or "men-phobia" or "women-phobia", the labelling of disagreeing with an accusation of fear (homo-phobia) does not allow the conversation to begin on a level of mutual respect, where people merely have disagreements on personal behavior.
I'm not going to discourage you to create new words but I think it's important to note think about how people react when someone tells them that something they said was racist. I've called plenty of people out on racist, sexist, transphobic, and homophobic things that they have said both in university classroom settings, workshop settings (were people were there to learn about things like transphobia or racism in LGBTQ communities), and day to day life when I'm hanging out with people. When do people act the most defensive or offended that they were called out, or even just that made aware that something they said wasn't ok? When it has to do with racism. I think this has to do with the imprint that historical racism and organizations that are blatantly overtly racist have made on most people that grew up in the US compared to the imprint that feminists one or many of a variety of feminist schools of thought have made. So yes you can say that homophobia and transphobia have a suffix that means "fear". However if your going to say that -phobia makes those words imply a sense of fearing people who are gay or trans and thus that means that people react less favorably to those words than racism or sexism then I suggest you take a look at your examples and also look at examples of how people react to people pointing out that something they said or did was homophobic or transphobic vs. racist.