4d ago

What’s your ultimate unpopular opinion?

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If you use queerphobia against others as a way to keep yourself in the closet, then you deserve to get outed.
- Do you think that people who act queerphobic for reasons other than hiding their true identity also deserve to be outed?
  
  I don't know, it would depend on wheter they had a negative intent or not i guess.
  
  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.

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