Or are they?

Arachnophobia is so stupid. Just let the spiders get married

Suggesting all homophobes are gay is a great way for the straight community to avoid taking responsibility for their role in perpetrating homophobia. Most homophobes are straight haters.

It's also a way to tell gay people "really, this is your fault"
Secretly gay/bisexual. Closeted. Self-hating, spreading their hate. Trying to cling onto a precarious hold on the straight lifestyle, they want to eliminate "temptation". Dudes, it's only tempting if you're already bi.
At least on the right it seems that way, with the Republican convention regularly crashing grindr.
- And that is still a fraction of the community. The fact remains straight people outnumber LGBT+ folks by a considerable margin thus most haters are just hateful straight folks.
Definitely true, but when it comes to the most extreme homophobes, there's no hatred like self-hatred.

"I think homophobes are just secretly scared that cocks are delicious."

I've been married to an arachnophobe for 42 years and now I have questions.

Look for telltale signs in your marriage like:
does it spin a web
does it love you
does it walk on the ceiling
If any of these are true you might be married to a human.
Do people ever run screaming from the room when he enters it?

Because most homophobes aren't afraid of gay people. They hate them. It's a very non descriptive labels fan is technically incorrect in most cases, though it DOES work as an insult to homophobes by making them seem like an absolute fucking wuss so I'm not in arms about that. In fact, I support it despite this fact. Fuck you, homophobes, you fucking dicks.

What a homophobe is afraid of is gay men treating them the way they treat women.
Consider a usage other than "fear". Think of something hydrophobic. Do you really think that an inanimate surface is afraid of water?
I don't think it's technically incorrect, I think folks have been taught an overly narrow usage of the suffix.
- "Aversion" is the most accurate meaning I can think of. It could be aversion out of hate, fear, or something else.
- Have you seen what waterfalls do to rock? You should be afraid of water!
- Fair point. I personally like that it's insulting though so I like the wide definition more.
- The fact that someone decided to describe an inanimate object as scared of water doesn't invalidate words with 'phobic'
Hate is a form of fear.
- Is it though?
  I hate my neighbor's Chihuahua because it barks all day everyday.
  Absolutely no part of me fears a dog that weighs less than 4 lbs.
- True, kid. iPhones are terrifying.

Hiss

As a child, I was terribly afraid of spiders. Until I did a science project on them and discovered I was an arachnophile after all and I’ve never looked back.

I'm an arachnophobe when I just walked through her web and don't know where the fuck she is. From a distance, though, I'm all 'Wow, what a wonderful creature!'
The spider spinning a web in front of my door is an asshole. The one eating things inside my house is a bro. The one guarding my rose bush is beautiful.
If you're spider-curious, take a look at Travis McEnery. If you think your an arachnophobe, check him out too; exposure therapy worked for Chill and youtube is a safe distance from the spiders.

"Most" is what scares me here.

I hate this stereotype; it blames bigotry against homosexuals on homosexuals.

So its not entirely just a stereotype. They have done studies on it, and it holds remarkably true. I'll see if I can find one of them for you.
Edited to add a link to the study: Homophobia study
- Thank you for citing sources, remarkable that there is statistically an interaction. I wonder what other common phenomena people may be in denial about?
It's not blaming homosexuals in general; it's blaming specifically those homosexuals who help uphold systems of oppression. It's the same as women who uphold sexism or pickme minorities. They're using the oppression of others as a shield against their own oppression instead of joining the fight for equality.
- It's blaming only homosexuals.
- I hope no one is saying most misogynists are secretly women.
Nah, openly gay homosexuals aren't bigoted, it's only the ones in denial.
- Exactly.
  It's not accusing the being gay of fucking them up, it's accusing the unhealthy repression.
- Gay people in denial are still gay though. If they weren't, they wouldn't be in denial
- oh so much better, it's just closeted people that are acceptable targets!

Most spiders are indeed afraid of other spiders, checkmate theists.

rightfully so

Sounds like a secret spider curve ball to me

Lost in Space?
- The 1995 movie, yes.

Ok, but ewww, imagine the other way around - seeing a spider doing normal spider-bro things, but it's turns out it's a human?

This guy?
- No, this dude gets a pass.

FDR has entered the chat.

Almost like the first one isn't true either.

This study kind of illustrates it may be true. It's not a huge sample size, but its difficult to deny there is at least a significant correlation.
- That's not what the study says??
  I don't have access to the full text, but it certainly doesn't state most homophobes display attraction to gay porn.
  It says there is a correlation. If 5% of the population is gay and 10% of homophobes are gay, then homophobia is correlated with being gay.
  But stating most homophobes are gay would require evidence that >50% are gay, not just that there exists a correlation.
- As noted, its a small sample size, and even in that sample size the homophobic participants exhibited "arousal" to all sexual stimuli.
  I don't think that makes someone gay.
  You also have to consider the subset of self described homophobes who would consent to having a device strapped to their genitalia while they are shown gay porn...
  They may not be a representative of the larger group.
- I only need to open Grindr at a Republican convention to know for sure. Also, good luck with the servers not crashing.
Statistically speaking though...
- Yeah... statistically speaking.... its not true.

Most homophones are secretly homographs

As Spiderman I can confirm this