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*'''Developmental disturbances''': Related to the previous point, homosexuality may be caused by environmental disturbances, which may act in the same or similar ways as genetic mutations, causing some males to express androphilia.<ref>https://psychology.wikia.org/wiki/Pathogenic_theory_of_homosexuality</ref> | *'''Developmental disturbances''': Related to the previous point, homosexuality may be caused by environmental disturbances, which may act in the same or similar ways as genetic mutations, causing some males to express androphilia.<ref>https://psychology.wikia.org/wiki/Pathogenic_theory_of_homosexuality</ref> | ||
==Homophobia== | == Homophobia and homohysteria == | ||
Social scientists have come up with [[female sneakiness|sneaky]] and politically laden terms for certain negative emotions in the context homosexuality. For one, negative emotions toward gays have been termed ''homophobia'', sneakily characterizing them as an anxiety disorder and irrational fear (a ''phobia''). Further, the fear of being regarded as gay has been termed ''homohysteria'', again characterizing it as an irrational anxiety, a ''hysteria'' (hilariously even though that term was discarded for describing female neuroticism), even though some the fear of being socially excluded for being regarded as gay, the fear that other men will destroy one's reputation of one's willingness and ability to compete for women, may be warranted in certain circumstances. | |||
Again, one can | A variety of not necessarily contradictory evolutionary hypotheses for these emotions have been proposed as summarized below. Again, one can distinguish slow and fast life history adaptations, e.g. ruthless male competition as a fast life history adaptation in contrast to adaptations regulating cooperation effectiveness as a slow life history adaptation. | ||
=== Ineffective male coalitions === | === Ineffective male coalitions === | ||