A Case Study in Homophobic Hysteria
How hysteria breeds hatred
Recently, I’ve been thinking more and more about a point I made in a previous article about how transphobia is fundamentally rooted in fear, despite what anti-trans figures will say. Whenever you look at the sort of discourse that goes on in anti-LGBT spaces, it becomes apparent that so much of this anger and fear comes from a place of self-induced hysteria.
A really great example of this is a recent video on the popular YouTube channel Jubilee. (Zander Moricz) debated 25 conservatives. Naturally, one would expect this to be absolutely horrific, and you would be correct. There was a lot of really absurd and, to be honest, outright insane outbursts from some of the people he was debating.
I want to cover today one particular person he debated, because I think it provides the perfect insight into how conservatives think and the underlying hysteria of homophobia.
The first thing Zander’s debating partner claimed is that the LGBT movement is a Marxist movement. He then spouted off a bunch of other things, going on to claim that Zander had actually put himself in an alternate reality. I find this kind of funny and a very good example of projection.
Firstly, as Zander pointed out, the LGBT movement isn’t a Marxist movement; this is just an example of the right using scary words to make what they’re arguing against sound scarier. I’m not even sure what it would mean for the LGBT movement to be Marxist even as a hypothetical, but alas this was just name-calling.
He goes on to say how Zander has built himself up a fictional reality or Matrix, to keep himself safe. I’m sure he’d have a heart attack if he found out who directed the Matrix (), but again this is another example of name-calling. He says he knows these things, that the LGBT movement is Marxist etc., but when you actually watch and not just listen, it’s clear by the way he’s acting that he’s very emotional.
It’s also funny that he accuses Zander of creating a fictional reality to shield himself from when he’s literally talking about the LGBT movement is Marxist, which isn’t true at all. He spends most of the rest of his segment talking about how he “knows” that the LGBT community is going to be pushing for MAPs (pedophiles) to be accepted as a legitimate sexuality next.
Now, since it is worth responding to, I will say that this is just not true. has been pushing for MAPs and the only people who have been doing it are trolls on sites like 4chan who end up getting taken seriously by right-wingers because they’re too stupid to understand anything.
Zander’s opponent spends much of the rest of the segment having a weapons-grade crashout, and this is why I wanted to write this article — because it gives us an incredible case study in how the queerphobic mind operates.
He truly became hysterical over the course of what was a very short conversation, and he gradually revealed what his true position was towards the end when he said that he doesn’t think LGBT people should have civil rights.
All of the things he was claiming, that the LGBT movement is Marxist, that , that LGBT people want a “grey box society” stripped of all individuality, are things that are wholly made up inside the conservative echo chamber and likely through conservative evangelical indoctrination. He has got himself into a position where he is visibly seething with rage over things he has himself made up that have no basis in reality whatsoever.
This is one of the segments that got the most traction with people pointing out how even at the start of the conversation his is visibly mad and over the course of a couple of minutes works himself up to the point of being hysterical.
Fundamentally, all conservatives and anti-LGBT people are like this. I can remember several years ago when the far-right online media figure Dave Cullen, also known as Computing Forever, tube stations using agender terms in their announcements was proof of a gender ideology that had the goal of a communist revolution.
Everything you hear from Zander’s debate opponent is the same kind of hysteria. The problem is that conservatives don’t interact with LGBT people or pro-LGBT sources. They don’t read feminist books, for instance, on gender. All their engagement comes from the right-wing outrage machine. I’m not even joking here. By far, the side that engages with trans issues the most are right-wing. , Facebook users who shared stories from anti-trans sites like LifeSiteNews were responsible for two-thirds of all shares about trans people and issues on Facebook.
None of these sources are about actually understanding gender or how it works. Right-wing articles and media that are centred around trans issues are about demonising trans people, claiming that they use “gender ideology” to enforce their rule on society. What is a Woman? documentary that trans people hold all the power in society and has repeated this claim based on his own perception of how trans people are apparently privileged.
When people don’t engage with what trans people are actually saying and instead choose to engage with right-wing rage content designed to keep people coming back and giving money, it’s not surprising that you see so many people caught up in this queerphobic hysteria.
If these people were to simply stand back for a minute and think about what they’re saying, they’d realise how absurd what they’re saying is. Everything we hear from them, about gender ideology, about how we’re supposedly moving towards MAPs — even after all that has been explained to show that this is not true — is nothing more than the ramblings of a madman.
This is true for the entire anti-LGBT movement today and of the past as well. Nothing they say is true, and it’s only the product of their own indoctrination stemming from their own fear and hatred of LGBT people, and they refuse to do any introspection into why they feel this way.
As a result, they keep going down these rabbit holes to the point of being completely delusional.
