I'm fed up with the misuse of the word 'phobia.'
If someone has no rational point for disagreement with me, they toss 'phobe' on the end of a word and hurl it at me during the discussion. For some reason this passes as intellectual ammo in today's sound bite world.
A 'phobia' is defined as a pathological fear of something or someone. It is irrational in nature and spurs unreasonable thought or action in the suffering individual.
However, my informed disapproval or rejection of a stated action or idea does not make me a 'phobe' of any stripe or color simply because someone repeatedly screams it at me. Grow up, get a coherent thought, or shut up.
That is all.
