kinda wierd mental gymnastics on these people. but i think its more likely closeted gay homophobes, dont wanted to be OUTED being gay themselves, because they have ties to conservative/religious groups,families they dont want to be cut off from. people who often come out as gay when they are young in a coservative/religious community will often be disowned immediately by the family and the community. mOST dont consider people like thiel(probably bad example) to be openly gay, eventhough he knows hes gay, he does everything in his power to suppress any news about him in the media all the time.(its an ulterior motive of trying to gain favors with the conservative base/ GOP so they dont intefere with his companies, business pratices like Palintir. gawker/hulk lawsuit being one of them(the motivation behind him doing it is his business pratices). not to mention last year, he had Boy toy "defenestrated" in florida, and it was like on reddit for like half a day, before it was buried.

"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'