How homophobic are you? (quiz inside)

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Uhhh... on second thought, edited the start of my post off.

I also answered a 3 for the "do gays deserve whay they get" question, because it's dumb. Deserve what? Good things or bad things?

I answered 1, I think all people usually 'deserve' what they get. What a silly question.

Pekka:

[Boris Godunov]

Jesus, Pekka, chill. We don't think you're anti-gay, ok? Relax!

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by VJ
Boris:

Same here.

Only gay people are allowed to do that. Just like only black people can call each other "******."

[Pekka]

No it's ok I'm angry at the test though. It's all this labeling. First of all it labels me for my lack of opinions. And really, if I want to be phobic to gays or black people or what ever I should just do that then, as long as I'm not going loud about it to the people who would then be offended. If I keep it as my own knowledge, it's not hurting anyone and thus it should be ok, if I'm not obstructing them. It doesn't mean anything, I don't put it to my CV or introduce myself "Hey, my name is Pekka and I'm non-homophobic". That would be just weird.

[Mercator]

They seem to have graded #20 wrongly. You only get a perfect score if you think homosexual behaviour should be against the law.

[Pekka]

And it's like this:

If I go and attack a gay person because he is gay, well that's illegal and I should be punished for it. Should I be punished more becase it was "a hate crime"? Why? Attacking is attacking and it's illegal no matter what the motivation was so no, I should get the same punishment as I'd be if I was beating retarded people because they're not so fast.

If I want to insult gay people, then that's just bad taste if it's totally uncalled for.

But other than that, this is just the way it is these days, you need to have an opinion about everything, before I didn't have an opinion and now I have to have so why is that. About PC crap, should I take these tests to see if I'm PC or not? SO what if I'm not politically correct who cares. Is it that there are rules how to feel about things, what is cool and what is not cool according to some people and then I should be alarmed because some over sensitive people think I might be little over the board? So what if I'm not breaking the law or showing bad taste, meaning everyone can go on about their business as usual without my obsturcting in any way. Why should I feel the same way like the sensitive PC guide line says I should feel? If I'm racist, then you know I'm racist and that's pretty much about it, nothing these tests can do to make me otherwise and plus they most likely diagnose people as racists and homophobics when they even aren't. Then they should feel bad about it? It's really very simple. If you hate someone because he is black, yellow or what not then you're racist. It's not a series of questions that decides it for you. If you hate gay people because they're gay, then you're anti-gay. It's very simple. To make it complicated like this just confuses people to think they are something they're not and it's just BS, and I don't know if it's because of lobbyists or over sensitive people.

The over sensitive people should be sensitive about my 0 sensitive feelings too and leave me alone.

[Theben]

Don't be so sensitive, pekker.

[Theben]

16 - Your score rates you as "high-grade non-homophobic."

Yaay! I'm more tolerant than Imran! Ha! Take that you wannabe shyster!

In his 1996 study of 64 white, male college students, Dr. Henry Adams classed 29 participants as "non-homophobic." Their mean score was 30.48, however, placing most of the men outside of this sub-group. Dr. Adams reported that he had difficulty finding heterosexual men whose scores ranked them as high-grade non-homophobic

Apparently there are a lot of "in-the-closet" types at poly. otw,

U R ALL TEH GAY *****

[Theben]

7w47z is censored!1?1?

[Pekka]

don't be a punk

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
I also answered a 3 for the "do gays deserve whay they get" question, because it's dumb. Deserve what? Good things or bad things? It doesn't seem to specify...

yep -- a bit confusing there

[Mr. Harley]

Pekka, consistant stand . I DETEST hate crime legislation. If you have to increase the the penalty because it was a hate crime, then the penalty was to damn soft anyway. I truly believe in due process and innocent until proven guilty, but for crimes with victims, either fraud or violence, I subscribe to the preventative view - lock them up for a very long time.

I will disagree with you on one point. I really do believe that this test would measure homophobia, as I've said, I have a rabid one at work, plus a fundamentalist who knows they are all damned. They truly would answer some of those "silly" questions with extreme answers. They feel homosexuality is Morally wrong, that gay marraige is a threat to straight marraige (please, don't ask me to explain their line of reasoning, trying to get them to be logically consistant is an exercise in futility), that they are dangerous to little kids (a propoganda item that plays on US conservative radio shows conveniently ignoring the fact that it's little girls are at risk from male family members to a much greater degree rather than little boys from male homosexuals), that gays deserve whatever happens to them because as sinners they ask for it, etc.

The test really does measure this belief system. Do you and I find them ridiculous nearly to the point of disbelief? Yes. There are a couple of questions that are too PC, for example the jokes and the insult parts, but they really do measure some decent indicators. I live in the Bible Belt, and our state reprentatives are in the middle of pushing an amendment to our state constitution de facto banning gay marraige. Sadly, our voters will probably approve it.

[Barinthus]

Originally posted by Giancarlo


I am awfully surprised why I got a 4? I am stunned. I should get one because I'm totally non-homophobic. I don't get it.. I answered strongly favorably towards gays.

Don't worry too much about it. My gay friend got 12.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Gay Homophobe!

[Pekka]

shawnmmcc, yes maybe it works on some level. I don't know, I won't rule that possibility out. But why would you take this test, I think you already know where you stand so...