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Originally Posted by tristanrobin
homophobia is a term coined by legitimate accredited mental health professionals.
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"Legitimate" and "mental health professionals" is an oxymoron.
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It's not a matter of how it's "applied" - it's a matter of it being a medical term with a defined parameter of meaning.
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Nonsense! Words are pretty much meaningless outside of their application.
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Perhaps you should petition the mental health professional community to change the word if it offends you so deeply.
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Since I don't recognize psychology as valid, I don't give a rat's behind what those quacks say.
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I'm sure they'd be highly interested in your scholarly take on the word that has been accepted and used for quite some time now.
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Emphasis on "used."
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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.
"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.
"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."
The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.
"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."
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