Does lack of education and wealth make people more homophobic?

Haha, I live in an extremely wealthy tory town, and I'd say about 70% of the population are homophobic. It has nothing to do with wealth, but ignorance. The two are not synonymous.

Haha, I live in an extremely wealthy tory town, and I'd say about 70% of the population are homophobic. It has nothing to do with wealth, but ignorance. The two are not synonymous.

id say its neither

values are emotive not knowledge related

thats why you can have a fascist intellectual

Even if this was true which I very much doubt since I've never experienced homophobia directed at my person or anyone else at an adult level this is only true to an extent because wealthy and educated people are smart and would seldom share their views in the open like this. So while you may be right in that homophobia is equally prevalent in the circles which I deemed superior there's still a difference in how the views are expressed.




Values are founded on knowledge. The more you know the more your morals and conscience change. I.e. If you were not aware of the fact that animals feel pain you may torture them for fun whereas someone more knowledgeable would have a moral objection to such savagery.

no not at all

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem

Even if this was true which I very much doubt since I've never experienced homophobia directed at my person or anyone else at an adult level this is only true to an extent because wealthy and educated people are smart and would seldom share their views in the open like this. So while you may be right in that homophobia is equally prevalent in the circles which I deemed superior there's still a difference in how the views are expressed.

This is not a generlisation. Today I travelled through a part of the city that is "urban" and filled with people who are on JSA with little prospects beyond getting drunk every night and constantly buying scratch cards to feed their hope for a better tomorrow which most certainly will never come. I was called all sorts from "batty boy" to yet cruder homophobic slurs directed at my very person which I found offensive in the extreme since I am not openly gay. Your next question might be how do they know you're gay? I don't know. Perhaps it was my politeness to the bus driver or perhaps it was the way I was dressed or my mannerisms.

I'm really upset right now. I felt so terrible that I almost cried when I got home. Yet I've vowed to remain impassive.

Are you actually gay?

What sort of clothes were you wearing?

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This is just speculative, but perhaps it's because, in poorer areas, guys in particular feel they need to present themselves as being tough and manly in order to survive. Being gay might be seen as a weakness, as the whole camp stereotype is very effeminate.

Am sorry about all that.i believe they in the wrong for judgeing you.its happen, dont try to take it to personal,they are the stupid ones.
no it not the poor.
yes it the uneducated ones.
they just don't understand homosexual, they refuse to understand it .
may i ask do you look or act like the steotype gay man ?
how old when felt for the same sex? have u try dating women?

This is just speculative, but perhaps it's because, in poorer areas, guys in particular feel they need to present themselves as being tough and manly in order to survive. Being gay might be seen as a weakness, as the whole camp stereotype is very effeminate.

It's not due to poverty lol

People insult each other all the time I suggest you get over it. Not everyone is in favour of homosexuality too, doesn't mean they're ignorant. Everyone is entitled to their views.

I have never been in a relationship of a sexual nature. I don't find men unappealing however the same could be said for women and I do find myself becoming aroused at a scantly-clad woman like any regular man.


I wore a leather jacket with a faux fur collar. Skinny jeans. Black Boots. A flannel shirt.

wait a minute

why is ur gender female

My fault.