Homophobia is beneficial to many heterosexuals

"I will be arguing that homophobia in practice is an undesirable trait that is destructive to society" This is a straw man fallacy. In other words, you are attacking a distorted version of my claim. My claim is, homophobia is beneficial to many heterosexuals. You're not addressing my specific claim. You are arguing as if my claim is, "homophobia is a desirable trait and its not destructive to society" That's not my argument. Even if it was my argument, your claim would be invalid because, "destructive to society" and "undesirable trait" are subjective terms in this particular situation. Homophobic Heterosexuals who refuse to befriend gays maybe psychologically destructive to gays but it would beneficial to many heterosexuals being the fact that it is common for many gays to develop crushes on their heterosexual friends. Many homophobes choose to be homophobes because it's a desirable trait. "being deemed undesirable can easily be compared to unwanted advances from men to women, which are often more open and more destructive" This is a tu quoque fallacy... Again, you're not addressing my claim specifically. Again, my argument is, homophobia is beneficial to many heterosexuals. Even if my argument wasn't what it is, you are spewing a faulty analogy fallacy. Unlike crushes between men and women, Simply being heterosexual means uninterested in any person of the same sex. In other words, the heterosexual is not interested by default. The problem is, many gays who crush on their same sex heterosexual friends don't seem to respect their heterosexual's friends' sexuality. When a heterosexual crushes on a heterosexual person of the opposite sex, there's no issue with respect for ones sexuality. Many gays turn to wishful thinking to justify disrespecting their same sex friends' sexual orientation. Homophobia stops that nonsense before it even gets started in which ultimately benefits homophobes "The argument I am countering simply describes "crushes", which are innocent in nature" This is an appeal to emotions fallacy... The fact remains, when heterosexuals befriend someone, they aren't asking for a crush from a homo. You seem to be only concerned about what gays want. Unlike non-homophobic heterosexuals, homophobia eliminates the issues of having to deal with crushes from openly or closeted gays because homophobes would not befriend gays to begin with. Most straight crushes involve gays who crush on heterosexuals who are their friends "Those who are purely heterosexual do not experience a desire for homosexual acts" First of all, heterosexuals dont have to desire homosexual acts in order to experience homosexuality. Some non-homophobic heterosexuals have experienced homosexuality for money, career opportunities, peer pressure, ect. Many closeted gays experienced heterosexuality without desiring it because of environmental pressures. If environmental pressures could cause homosexuals to experience heterosexuality, the same goes for heterosexuals experiencing homosexuality. Better yet, there's a reality show called 'gay for pay'. It's about heterosexuals engaging in homosexuality for pay. There are lesbians who work in strip clubs who give men lap dances. Some prostitutes are even lesbians. They are lesbians but they have sex with men for money. Even gays admit that it's possible so sexually seduce heterosexuals IF they aren't homophobic. Google "How to seduce a straight guy in 8 easy steps" by jamedues. In step 7, this gay man clearly conveys If the straight guy isn't homophobic, you have a chance at seducing him.