It's true, but some gay men treat women even worse than some straight guys do. They're affected by misogyny, too, in a lot of the same ways, but they also have male privilege and that can give a guy who feels threatened and needs to lash out at someone a lot of power to use against women with even fewer consequences that straight men (sometimes) face because if they're not interested in us sexually, why isn't it okay for them to violate our autonomy, talk over us and down to us, and on top of that, insult our appearance by upholding misogynist standards of beauty that not every woman can or wants to fulfill? I fully admit that I know this not only because it's happened to me but because I'm trans and back in the day when I thought I was a gay guy, I did some of this stuff to women and it's not an easy thing to forgive myself for. Just because we're oppressed doesn't mean we can't be oppressors, right?
Seriously Guys..
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To be fair there's a lot of pressure on gay guys... not so much straight ones
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It's true, but some gay men treat women even worse than some straight guys do. They're affected by misogyny, too, in a lot of the same ways, but they also have male privilege and that can give a guy who feels threatened and needs to lash out at someone a lot of power to use against women with even fewer consequences that straight men (sometimes) face because if they're not interested in us sexually, why isn't it okay for them to violate our autonomy, talk over us and down to us, and on top of that, insult our appearance by upholding misogynist standards of beauty that not every woman can or wants to fulfill? I fully admit that I know this not only because it's happened to me but because I'm trans and back in the day when I thought I was a gay guy, I did some of this stuff to women and it's not an easy thing to forgive myself for. Just because we're oppressed doesn't mean we can't be oppressors, right?