# Should homophobia get more moderator attention?

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**Created:** [May 11, 2015, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-homophobia-get-more-moderator-attention/719798 "2015-05-11T17:50:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 20, 2015, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-homophobia-get-more-moderator-attention/719798/152 "2015-05-20T23:42:42Z")

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> [@Ed\_Zotti](#):
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> I’ll leave this thread open briefly in case there are questions regarding the above; if there aren’t any I’ll close it.

I appreciate the clarification, though I obviously disagree with it :). I do have one question. There were a couple of posts that appeared later that I didn’t report, out of an assumption that nothing would be done with them:

> [@My 16yo son ignored Mother's Day.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-16yo-son-ignored-mothers-day/719727/258):
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> The boy does not have two mothers; he has a mother and a step-mother. Any other assertion is inaccurate (I wouldn’t dare call it “propaganda” because we all saw how that went over.) Forcing a child to call a step-mother, “mom”, is often met with mixed results, regardless of the parents’ sexual preference. If lesbian parents are “exactly the same” as heterosexual ones, I would expect the OP to know this.
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> The boy has a father, whom he has never met. The reason the boy has a mother, a step-mother, and no relationship with his father is because that is the situation that suited his lesbian mother. He was never consulted. (As an aside, I can assure you that I would have never preferred my-mother’s-lesbian-lover as a parent over my father, but maybe I’m just a bigot who thinks fathers have value. We all know that, really, two lesbians are “EXACTLY THE SAME” as a mother and father.)
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> Now the boy is acting “passive aggressive,” according to the OP, on Mother’s Day. And she hasn’t the foggiest idea why. But what she DOES KNOW is that it has nothing to do with her being a lesbian, even though the boy’s entire family structure is a direct result of her lesbianism.
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> Yeah, let’s just all go with that; only a bigot would suggest otherwise.

> [@My 16yo son ignored Mother's Day.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-16yo-son-ignored-mothers-day/719727/261):
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> Sorry, the boy has a mother and a female step-father. A step-father is a person who married your mother, right? I can’t see how this adds clarity but I will bow to your definition.

Am I right that, given what you said, the absence of words like “dyke” in these two posts, they would not have been modded?

If so, I know you’ve said your piece, but I strongly encourage the mods and admins to reconsider their interpretation of the “no personal attacks” rule.

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