How do you deal with Homophobes.

First, I try to educate them.
If they don't want to get educated, I politely ask them to stop.
If they don't want to stop, I smash their faces.

 

I fight them which is probably not the best way to deal with them. But that's just me

 

Sarcastic heterophobia that mirrors their own homophobia.

 

I tell 'em that if they don't like gay people, then why don't they go live in Russia.

And without a hint of sarcasm, mind you

 

Why even use Russia? There are worse places to be.

"I hear Iraq and Suria are quite lovely this time of year...

 

When I hear someone say something homophobic, I start arguing, but when they say something more passively anti-gay, "faggot" etc. I usually stay quiet, just because then I end up explaining why it affects me, I.e. I'm pansexual, then I have to explain what that means, and then I have to try to get it through their skulls that gender isn't binary.

 

If there aren't many people around and I just happened to overhear them, I generally move on with my day without giving them a second thought. When I encounter it in a public setting, I have a habit of calling people out and confronting the situation directly.

There are few things that concern me less than the random, baseless opinions on who I am, but I am all too familiar with the damage that hate and ignorance can do. I don't have the time to police every instance of homophobia, transphobia, racism, etc, in society, but I could never live with knowing that I chose to remain silent when it was expressed in an environment where LGBTQ and other minority groups who may already be struggling will be subjected it.

 

I ignore them

 

I usually ignore them as well.. I would rather not stoop down to their level. I find it's sad they feel that way, but I am not going to let their homophobia stop me from being happy or living my life.. If it's someone I know, I might try to educate them, but if it's just people I over hear on the street, I ignore. Not gonna ruin my day by biting back.

 

Online either their rants are so misspelled it is almost comical, or so Jesus riddled it is almost cringeworthy.
Eitherway talking to them is pointless and I just mess with them.

 

"Reasoning" with them.

Jk, I just ignore it.

 

Because, growing up in the Reagan/Bush I era, conservatives used to say this every chance they got, if you criticized the US in any way, shape or form. So I like the irony

 

fuck em

i literally just have sex with them right then and there

 

I just remind myself that someday THIS...



will look a lot like THIS!

 

I've done this a time or two or three ...

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But this is what I usually do. They are not critical thinkers, so why bother?

 

Yeah sometimes if I think he or she is a person who is just ignorant of what is being said and can be educated and will accept his or her flaws of thought, I will try to educate the person. But most time, I just ignore it. Don't let it get to you. Sometimes there is not much you can do about ignorant people.

 

I usually ignore them and keep being me <3

 

I usually just get frustrated and say things like, "Hujfrghtragherthphoip!" As you can imagine, it doesn't help much.

 

I feel like it's pointless to argue with some people, especially religious ones or older people with very old-fashioned views on things, like my parents for example. I doubt they will be able to look at it from a different angle.

At my old work place there were homophobic people and I decided to participate in the discussion and say there is nothing wrong with gay people. Of course, they disagreed. I doubt I changed their perspective by saying that. Although one co-worker later admitted that it was progressive thinking on my part, so maybe she thought being more open-minded wasn't such a bad thing. She was still painfully homophobic and ignorant. She said she wouldn't be friends with a gay person because she was afraid they'd turn her gay. Hearing those kind of things upsets me, which is why I usually avoid such discussions with homophobes. Plus I don't want them to think I care too much about the subject and out myself to them. That would only cause me problems.