tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386106.post3380419310572564302..comments2023-09-24T09:05:23.443-07:00Comments on Madness Counseling: Fear: There really isn't any other explanationDr 4LOMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15722351290509494228noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386106.post-34467500928179455602010-03-12T05:38:21.289-08:002010-03-12T05:38:21.289-08:00Oh and just as an add on. I was very naive in hig...Oh and just as an add on. I was very naive in high school about my career. I knew that gay people was something I had to deal with and I was never outright homophobic, just internally. I wasn't so much afraid that gay people existed, but like many adolescents, I was afraid I would be an object of the wrong affection. What's funny is how completely reversed my position because later. Dr 4LOMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15722351290509494228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386106.post-14259534084059678432010-03-12T05:33:42.732-08:002010-03-12T05:33:42.732-08:00see, I don't think gender bias is something su...see, I don't think gender bias is something subconscious. I think it's learned. And I think that now, partly because of how much pressure there is on gender, race and other diversities, that there are a lot of parents out there teaching their kids old phobias and bias because they fear their lives are in some form of jeopardy without it. <br />It's like the Us vs. Them rhetoric we Dr 4LOMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15722351290509494228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386106.post-25743341515707742492010-03-11T18:12:51.922-08:002010-03-11T18:12:51.922-08:00Can not say that I have ever been all that homopho...Can not say that I have ever been all that homophobic- in fact in the majority of meetings,dealings and conversations I have had with members of the Gay/Lesbian community- I do not choose to address the others (bi and trans-gender) as it is my, albeit controversial and politically incorrect right not to do so- I have found a greater amount of worth in their humanity, and at times a far greater E.Pollarinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13535128800512206405noreply@blogger.com