this post was submitted on 12 Apr 2025
124 points (94.9% liked)
Asklemmy
47659 readers
832 users here now
A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions
If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!
- Open-ended question
- Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
- Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
- Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
- An actual topic of discussion
Looking for support?
Looking for a community?
- Lemmyverse: community search
- sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
- [email protected]: a community for finding communities
~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~
founded 6 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Do you think that people who act queerphobic for reasons other than hiding their true identity also deserve to be outed?
I think they mean outed as queer, not outed as queerphobic. Like doing queerphobic shit and someone knows you're queer and in denial or using it to try to lock your closet door, they think those people should be outed as such.
If someone is queerphobic but straight, what are you outing them as?
At least that's how I understood the comment.
I meant outed as being queer. OP said that if you do queerphobic things as a way to hide that you're queer, you deserve to be outed. I'm asking if a queer person who does queerphobic things--not with the intention of hiding that they're queer, but because they genuinely believe that god gave everyone "queer desires" as a morality test--should be outed as queer.
For example, I've seen the argument that some gay priests are homophobic because they have "gay desires" and they assume that everyone else has them too. One of those priests said something to the effect of "all men want to have sex with other men, but it's our job not to". Of course, most men actually don't want to have sex with other men--if you do, you're just gay--but those priests might now know that. I'm conflicted as to whether that's a reasonable justification for homophobia, but I'm curious what OP thinks about it.
I don't know, it would depend on wheter they had a negative intent or not i guess.