Well, because it involves lying about people.
Homophobia as certain ideologues would call it sometimes only involves not lying about morals. But homohysteria means detecting homosexuality in people who are in fact straight.
Take a character like "George"* in The Famous Five:
George is** a tomboy, who demands that people call her George instead of Georgina; she cuts her hair very short and dresses like a boy. She is headstrong and courageous by nature and, like her father, scientist Quentin Kirrin, has a hot and fiery temper. Introduced to the other characters in the first book, she later attends a boarding school with Anne where the teachers also agree to call her 'George'. Blyton eventually revealed that the character was based on herself. It is notable that the chief protagonist of the Malory Towers stories also possessed a fiery temper as a defining character trait.[3] George has a loyal dog named Timmy who would do anything for her. She often gets cross when anyone calls her by her birth name or makes fun of Timmy, and she loves it when somebody calls her George or mistakes her for a boy. In Five Get into a Fix, old Mrs Janes mistakes her for a boy: even though Julian had told her that she was a girl, she later forgets this. George sometimes takes this to the point of asking that her name be prefixed with Master instead of Miss. Various references have been made to what meaning should be read into this – for instance "I remember reading in my first Famous Five book about a girl called Master George. What a puzzle and thrill. She claims to never tell lies as that is cowardly."[4]
Now, if I had the occasion to fall in love with "George" - would you call me homosexual, because old Mrs Janes considers her a boy?
That would be homohysteria, and would be maligning me.
Since it is still politically correct to hate pedophilia, and for that matter even pedophiles, in some politically correct haters to the point of denying people with the bent even a possibility of leading a normal life, there is no word for "pedophobia" and cosequently no word for "pedohysteria" ... the point being:
- a being who can get pregnant is not and never was and never will be male
- a being who can get pregnant after Eve died, certainly once was, but no longer is, a child.
Calling the person I'm in love with "a child" (she might perhaps still be minor, I'm giving her anything between 16 and 22, and marital age is 18 here) is as idiotic as calling Georgina Kirrin a boy. Considering me as "pedophile" for loving her would be as hysteric as the other case, the hypothesis I had fallen in love with Georgina Kirrin whom Mrs Janes considers as boy.
Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
13th Lord's Day after Pentecost
27.VIII.2023
PS, Georgina Kirrin not telling lies could be a Cherry Tree allusion to George Washington./HGL
* For French readers, in France her name is Claudine Dorsel, and she prefers being called Claude.
** Quoting:
Wicky Peejuh : The Famous Five
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Famous_Five
[3 and 4] G : Everybody gangs up on teachers. But, at long last, the nation's favourite scapegoats are fighting back
Michele Hanson, Tue 25 Mar 2008 08.53 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/mar/25/teachersworkload
G : Enid Blyton - the grown-ups' favourite
David Ward, Mon 23 Aug 2004 11.34 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/aug/23/books.booksforchildrenandteenagers
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