Individual gay people aren't the problem -- although the activists can be unbearable. But gays are a small percentage of the population.
It's the mindless-robot straight foot soldiers that create the cultural atmosphere of repression. Most of these are straight, white women which is why it's a problem to us.
I look at it this way: there have always been groups of women who go completely insane at the thought (insert high voice here) of...of...of a man checking out a woman (GASP!!!).
These women were hella influential in the Victorian Era, re-appeared as Catholic Nuns in the '50s, took the form of anti-sex feminists in the '80s and HR directors in the 2000s.
Each of these groups used a different reason to repress men's sexuality. For some it was a "sin," for others it was that "men objectified women." And so on.
So now, we've come to the place where their newest incarnation is the "caring," so-called liberal woman who wants to shame male sexuality as inferior to homosexuality. Gay men sometimes have hundreds of sexual partners and it's **bad to judge** but if a straight guy makes a dongle joke...off with his head!!!
The only way I can think to beat this back is call them what they are. The new nuns. The new Church Ladies. In church, they also shame straight men while turning a blind eye to all manner of same-sex sins the clergy engage in. I see a comparison to this now.
It's the mindless-robot straight foot soldiers that create the cultural atmosphere of repression. Most of these are straight, white women which is why it's a problem to us.
I look at it this way: there have always been groups of women who go completely insane at the thought (insert high voice here) of...of...of a man checking out a woman (GASP!!!).
These women were hella influential in the Victorian Era, re-appeared as Catholic Nuns in the '50s, took the form of anti-sex feminists in the '80s and HR directors in the 2000s.
Each of these groups used a different reason to repress men's sexuality. For some it was a "sin," for others it was that "men objectified women." And so on.
So now, we've come to the place where their newest incarnation is the "caring," so-called liberal woman who wants to shame male sexuality as inferior to homosexuality. Gay men sometimes have hundreds of sexual partners and it's **bad to judge** but if a straight guy makes a dongle joke...off with his head!!!
The only way I can think to beat this back is call them what they are. The new nuns. The new Church Ladies. In church, they also shame straight men while turning a blind eye to all manner of same-sex sins the clergy engage in. I see a comparison to this now.