Conversation about sex education on the January 10 edition of The View derailed, as guest host Ana Navarro suggested that homophobes might actually be gay themselves.
Navarro, herself no stranger to controversy, made the suggestion as the group had a debate over sex education in schools. Host Abbie Huntsman–one of the more conservative panelists on the show–suggested that children of various ages should have comprehensive and frank sex education in schools. Then Navarro chimed in.
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“I expect the conversation you have with a kid in fourth grade is different than a conversation you have with a 13-year-old,” Navarro said. “But we also have to admit that today’s day, and what kids are exposed to from a very early age, is very different than what some of us grew up with.”
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Huntsman agreed and noted that her home state of Utah has an enormous consumption of porn online, despite being one of the most conservative states in the nation. She blamed that porn consumption on a lack of sex education; in other words, that people needed to satisfy their curiosity somehow.
Co-host Joy Behar noted that some politicians wanted to remove mention of homosexuality from sex education. That set Navarro off.
“Let me tell you something,” Navarro declared. “Everybody that comes out against homosexuality’s got stuff going on.”
Navarro, despite calling herself a Republican, has fiercely defended LGBTQ rights in the past. She has also criticized the Trump administration for its policies, including those harmful to LGBTQ Americans.
Have a look. The discussion begins around the 19-minute mark.
justgeo
Love her could bitch Trumps balls in a second or 2 do better than any of his 3-4 wives or his daughter and jerrad!
hotdogla
I love Tia Ana.
Ambonec
I’ve had that as a pet theory for some time, rather than accepting, projectile denial
rustyiam
One of the most vile disgusting things on TV and a racist to boot!
white-queer-african
@rustyiam, i didn’t know you on television? You shouldn’t be so nasty to yourself. Then again…..
WillParkinson
Um….yeah.
Kieran
“Let me tell you something,” Navarro declared. “Everybody that comes out against homosexuality’s got stuff going on.”
Silence from the liberal View audience.
That was clearly an applause line. So why were the seals in that audience not wildly clapping on cue?
jcoberkrom
It’s obvious that homophobia stems from an insecurity about ones sexual identity. That doesn’t mean they are closets cases.
Kangol2
Being a closet case does not equal being an extreme homophobe. You are conflating two different things.
Psychological studies have shown that extreme “straight” homophobes do show higher rates of sexual (penile) arousal from male same-sexual imagery than non-homophobic “straight men, who show little to no sexual (penile) arousal.
Creamsicle
I really like Ana Navarro. She was one of the only conservatives who was actually enraged by the Turmp E Hollywood tape where he bragged about casually sexually assaulting women because he was a reality TV game show host.
She’s a pistol and one of the few conservatives who hasn’t gone braindead just to please Trump.
Hussain-TheCanadian
This is exactly what I feared, straight people claiming that homophobs in their ranks are “not gay at all, but closet cases who hate their own community”…..this nonsense is akin to saying that racists hate a particular race because they themselves are that race secretly.
It’s a logical fallacy and we need to stop spreading it.
Kangol2
Ugh. Why is this so hard to grasp? Being a closet case does not equal being an extreme homophobe. You are conflating two different things.
Psychological studies have shown that extreme “straight” homophobes do show higher rates of sexual (penile) arousal from male same-sexual imagery than non-homophobic “straight men, who show little to no sexual (penile) arousal. The studies are reputable and have even been discussed in mainstream journals like Psychology Today, etc. There was an older study that was critiqued, but more recent ones have verified that indeed, self-identified straight homophobes are aroused by same sexual imagery while non-homophobic straight men tend not to be.
Hussain-TheCanadian
I’m not conflating the two things, I’m saying that many of us carry and spread an odious assumption of correlation between homophobia and self hatred/fear. In a minority of cases, as shown in the studies you quoted, it is true that self hatred is evident, but it’s no where near the majority of cases.
My complaint is exactly that, the majority of homophobia stems from straight men and women for multiple psychological and cultural reasons that has to do with gender and sexual roles that go contrary to their worldview be it a religious view, or a “natural order ” type view.
winemaker
Why is this ultra liberal one sided ‘ultra liberal’ bitch fest still on the air? When the ‘View’ premiered about 27 years ago it was a decent show with guests with different opinions that discussed the current issues in a civil respectful manner. Over the years the ‘View”has morphed into a one sided ultra liberal rude rant usually headed by joy behar that’s resulted in nothing new but the same thing rehashed over and over until it’s old news.. This one sided sided ultra liberal and downright bitch fest has run its course. Really it’s time for this irrelevant waste of time to be cancelled
Creamsicle
Why is it on the air? Because it makes more ad revenue than it costs to produce and broadcast.
TomG
She is only just figuring that out? Sheesh ! Most of us have known that for years !