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Full access to 1m statistics Incl. Single Account. View for free. Show source. Show detailed source information? Register for free Already a member? Log in. More information. While there is no ready tool or survey to measure homophobia or its absence within Hollywood, it seems that I can't blame my own discomfort with the Logo commercial on the prejudices of others.
If you ever want to feel really wretched about what a big jerk you are, there are worse ways to do it than logging onto Harvard's Project Implicit. Psychologists at Harvard created a series of tests that measure your reaction time when you associate positive and negative concepts with different social groups.
The results give you an indication of how racist or sexist or agist or generally prejudiced you are on a subconscious level. My implicit association scores tell me that I have a moderate subconscious preference for lighter skinned people like 27 percent of all test takers, 70 percent of whom show a slight, moderate, or strong automatic preference for lighter skin. I also moderately prefer young people to old people like 29 percent of all test takers; 80 percent prefer young people to old.
And I moderately prefer straight people to gay people like 27 percent of test takers; 68 percent show some preference for straight people. I take some solace in the fact that my preferences are only moderate. But even if it's temperate about it, my subconscious is essentially racist, agist, and homophobic. It is the backwater redneck of my brain. And, apparently, I'm prejudiced against backwater rednecks. My uncle spent 20 years of Christmases leaving his partner at home while he visited my grandparents.
He pretended to be single. At my grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary, my grandfather tried to introduce my uncle to single women. My uncle came out of the closet only a few years before my grandfather died. There were tense days, but then he was accepted. Christianity imagines the period leading up to Christmas as one of great joy. It encourages us to offer good will towards men, which is a start, but it seems to me that the Jews have it right to place the emphasis of Yom Kippur, their big holiday, on just apologizing.
The essential, uncomfortable, flaw with all the progress on gay rights is that even after legislation is passed and everyone's rights are equal on paper—which still sometimes seems a long way off—there is the longer, trickier work of trying to divest each person of the ugly human prejudices we all inherited when we were born.
I, at least, am sorry. You don't have to believe in a Judeo-Christian god to find something redeeming in confession.
I am sorry that I balked at the idea of pretending to be gay. I am sorry that my uncle went home alone all those years. I am sorry for the whole ugly human history of slights and hate crimes and exclusion.
It seems important to acknowledge the depth and power of our biases, particularly at a time of year when many of us try to devote ourselves to being better people.
There is something vicious in each of us. Help them learn by your experience Chances are that before you came out you experienced many of the same feelings isolation, fear of rejection, hurt, confusion, fear of the future, etc. From Friends Your friends - especially old friends - might need some time to accept your sexual orientation. From Strangers It's never easy to deal with homophobic people, but focus on your principles, not theirs. Sources: Whosoever ; Avert Dealing with Workplace Harassment Many homosexual and bisexual workers suffer harassment at work in the form of anti-gay comments or homophobic behaviour.
Signs or posters that belittle homosexual or bisexual people. Email, interoffice mail, or telephone messages or conversations meant to harass a person because of his or her sexual orientation. If you feel you are being harassed due to your sexual orientation: Realize that Ontario law protects gay, lesbian and bisexual people through the Ontario Human Rights code. Visit your Human Resources department or with a manager or supervisor with whom you feel comfortable.
If a colleague is being harassed because of his or her sexual orientation: Don't accept stereotypical characterizations and beliefs about homosexual or bisexual people. Respect him or her and be supportive. Offer to accompany the person to file a complaint.
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