Dear Queenie,
Queenie, why do men who claim to hate homosexuals spend so much time talking about homosexuals and homosexual activity if they hate it so much? It gets boring and even disgusting after a while, and I have to wonder why it is so much on their minds.—Just curious
Dear Just curious,
People who are afraid of something tend to dwell on what they are afraid of, like children who are always talking about ghosts and bogeymen.
Also, many men are actually intrigued by the subject, but are afraid to admit it for fear others will think they have homosexual tendencies, so they go on and on about how much they hate it and this gives them an excuse to think and talk about it.
When I hear them I am irresistibly reminded of the quote from Shakespeare: “The lady (in this case, the fellow) doth protest too much, methinks!” This thought is backed up by a study I have heard of in which a group of men were attached to machines that could measure their state of sexual arousal (sort of like lie detectors) and then shown various types of homosexual pornography.
Most of the men who claimed to be homophobes showed a considerable amount of arousal, while only a few of the men who claimed not to care one way or the other about the subject had any reaction at all, and then not much.
