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:::What we've experienced in recent years, however, is a media and political campaign to shame people with a medical condition. And an investigation will most likely reveal, the term has been misused. The people who allegedly "discriminate", in most cases (1) have not been diagnosed, (2) are probably '''''not''''' textbook homophobes. Effectively what's happened is, a certifiable mental condition, for poltical purposes, has been turned into an attack term. And many of those accused of "homophobia", are nothing of the sort. ''Why'' this has happened, I can present musings and theories, but let's just stick to the facts of the definitions of terms, and the science to support them. [[User:RobS|RobS]] 15:23, 25 April 2007 (EDT)
:::What we've experienced in recent years, however, is a media and political campaign to shame people with a medical condition. And an investigation will most likely reveal, the term has been misused. The people who allegedly "discriminate", in most cases (1) have not been diagnosed, (2) are probably '''''not''''' textbook homophobes. Effectively what's happened is, a certifiable mental condition, for poltical purposes, has been turned into an attack term. And many of those accused of "homophobia", are nothing of the sort. ''Why'' this has happened, I can present musings and theories, but let's just stick to the facts of the definitions of terms, and the science to support them. [[User:RobS|RobS]] 15:23, 25 April 2007 (EDT)
::::Yes, I do see what youre getting out. Differentiating the clinically diagnosed homophobes from the people who (for want of a better phrase) don't like queers! Homophobe is now in common usage to describe the latter of those two. Perhaps an in depth definition of the psychiatric condition could be put forward on a separate page while we deal with the common usage here. This is, after all, the page that people will search for and if people want to read about the clinical condition they should be directed there. [[User:MatteeNeutra|MatteeNeutra]] 15:34, 25 April 2007 (EDT)