My experience differs from yous since I am not gay or trans. But I have interacted with fundamentalists for the past 35 or so years. For many fundies, shame is a tool they use. Or try to use. When I cannot be shamed (for being pagan, for walking into a porn store, for not supporting their "mission" etc) they get very freaked out. Many of them believe that there is only one way to look at the world, and their way is the only correct way. When people can be shamed, they reenforce the findies beliefs that those who oppose them are misguided and feel guilty for their evil ways. But when someone cannot be shamed, the fundies get very very threatened. Their singularity of belief gets questioned and that rings all sorts of alarm bells in them. In fact, they begin to feel uncomfortable in ways remarkably similar to the people they manage to shame. And this really spooks them!
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Date: 2007-05-02 05:40 pm (UTC)