Quote Originally Posted by sudoku View Post


Actually this is true. I was thinking the exact same thing yesterday, that shouldn't homo be used for 'humans'.

It reminds me of Shaykh Deedat and his quote on 'happy and gay'.

It isn't fair that all nice words are being used as sordid terms nowadays. Words that were used in my childhood now have filthy rotten connotations.

But I digress.


The term "homo" that is used in the context of homosexuality is not the same as the term Homo that is used to define the genus that humans belong to (in scientific terms, the term Homo is not analogous to humans, either, since science includes different species based on the current understanding of "human evolution").

We can see this from the opposite of homosexuality, which is heterosexuality. So, "homo" means "like" or "similar" in this context, just how homogeneous and heterogeneous are distinguished from each other. Maybe a capitalized "H" in "Homo" suffixed by a dash would be more appropriate: Homo-phobia.