Re: [Phys-L] A JD example: Re: [SCAAPT] Physics Colloquium: 11:15AM, Oct. 20, 2014 in PH2-110

[Bernard Cleyet <bernard@cleyet.org>]

On 2014, Oct 17, , at 02:50, Bill Norwood <bnorwood111@gmail.com> wrote:

> And, please do not use the mindless homophobe word on me. Look up the
> definition of phobia and you will see that this word is a misnomer.

“...on me.”?


Aaaa a prescriptivist — well it’s a recent neologism, and, therefore, it’s meaning is defined by the typical user, not necessarily by it’s etymology.

Etymology 1[edit]
homo (from homosexual) +‎ -phobia, coined in 1971 by George Weinberg in Society and the Healthy Homosexual.  

homophobia - Wiktionary  

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/homophobia

This cirt. is more valid, I think.  
Criticism of meaning and purpose
Distinctions and proposed alternatives
Researchers have proposed alternative terms to describe prejudice and discrimination against LGBT people. Some of these alternatives show more semantic transparency while others do not include -phobia:
Homoerotophobia, being a possible precursor term to homophobia, was coined by Wainwright Churchill and documented in Homosexual Behavior Among Males in 1967.
The etymology of homophobia citing the union of homos and phobos is the basis for LGBT historian Boswell's criticism of the term and for his suggestion in 1980 of the alternative homosexophobia.[102]
Homonegativity is based on the term homonegativism used by Hudson and Ricketts in a 1980 paper; they coined the term for their research in order to avoid homophobia, which they regarded as being unscientific in its presumption of motivation.[103]
Heterosexism refers to a system of negative attitudes, bias, and discrimination in favour of opposite-sex sexual orientation and relationships.[104] p. 13 It can include the presumption that everyone is heterosexual or that opposite-sex attractions and relationships are the only norm[105] and therefore superior.
Sexual prejudice – Researcher at the University of California, Davis Gregory M. Herek preferred sexual prejudice as being descriptive, free of presumptions about motivations, and lacking value judgments as to the irrationality or immorality of those so labeled.[106][107] He compared homophobia, heterosexism, and sexual prejudice, and, in preferring the third term, noted that homophobia was "probably more widely used and more often criticized." He also observed that "Its critics note that homophobia implicitly suggests that antigay attitudes are best understood as an irrational fear and that they represent a form of individual psychopathology rather than a socially reinforced prejudice."

Homophobia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homophobia#Criticism_of_meaning_and_purpose  

bc,  attempts to speak (and write) “American"