Gay men took the side of trans-identified males when they started to invade women's safe spaces, stealing their sports and scholarships, undermining sex-based rights that women only very recently in history had managed to secure.
They told lesbians they're bigots if they don't agree that a man is a lesbian if he says that he is and if they're not willing to have sex with him.
They have re-written history to take away from lesbians the credit for Stone Wall and give it to trans women instead, just as they wrote out of history all the heterosexual women allies who supported them through the AIDS crisis and many other crisis besides.
They have never cared about female specific ongoing tragedies such as Indian women dying in menstrual huts in India, or African women dying of female genital mutilations in Africa - after all, these are issues that do not affect them personally so they're not important.
And even though AIDS has since the 1980s become one of the leading causes of death for women worldwide they have never showed up for that crisis, even though women were the ones who campaigned for them and their rights when they needed it.
In their eyes women when women show up for them they are doing nothing more than their duty, as women exist to serve men not the other way around so why should they feel any sense of gratitude or loyalty in return?
Why would they care now that women have lost their right to abortion and next will lose the rest of their reproductive rights? When have they ever come to our rescue? They would sooner show up to sing "We saw your boobs" alongside the misogynist men who rape women, like they have done so many times before. Stay classy, guys.
John Stoltenberg - A Feminist Guide to Gay Male Misogyny
What is gay male misogyny? What distinguishes it as gay and male? Why do gay men do it? What does it do to others when we do it? What does it do to ourselves when we do it? And what can we do about it?
A talk by John Stoltenberg April 19, 2013, at Wake Forest University for a symposium titled "Rewriting Homosexuality."
A couple of months ago the Oscars, the 2013 Oscars, opened with a song that Seth MacFarlane sang.
A show of hands, does this ring a bell, did anybody here in the room see this? Maybe about half of you.
Well, let me recap it for those who didn't see it: Seth MacFarlane begins singing a song and the song is "We saw your boobs", and it's a recital of different female actors names and films they appeared in; and the chorus is "in the movie that we saw we saw your boobs". He sings this song and then the curtains open: it's the Los Angeles Gay Men's Chorus. They join in on the last verse.
What wasn't apparent at the time was that at least four of the women actors who were named in that song lyric, their breasts appeared on screen because their characters had been raped.
Jodie Foster in "The Accused", her breasts were visible on screen during a flashback her character is having about the rape. And her assailants are violently ripping her breasts out of her shirt. (sing songs) "In the movie that we saw we saw your boobs".
Hilary Swank in "Boys Don't Cry", she's playing a trans man, Brandon Teena, we see Hilary Swank's breasts during a medical examination after Teena's character has been brutally raped on the trunk of a car. Her breasts are swollen and dark with bruises and Hillary Swank as the character flinches. (sing songs) "In the movie that we saw we saw your boobs".
Similarly Halle Berry in "Monsters Ball", her name was referenced in this song lyric; Charlize Theron, in "Monster". And I'm setting the scene in this way for my topic today, which is gay male misogyny.
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There's actually a conversation about gay male misogyny going on online. It's fairly extensive (…) It's very disturbing, but in a culture that doesn't see gay men who are perceived as queer as men having male privilege our misogyny and sexist acts are instead read as diva worship or celebrating women, even when in reality they are objectification, assault and dehumanization.
