![]() Men draw from a global patriarchal culture where the idea of “respect” resembles female worship and relationships are seen as a system of exchange:ĭon’t cry like a girl, but you treat one right and buy her flowers. Therein lies the first problem - the idea that attraction-based interaction is considered the only way that women are othered. Sexism means treating women you are attracted to like crap, right? How could a guy who wasn’t attracted to women ever be sexist? That the minority status implied by my identity granted me and others like me a reprieve from the blowback of engaging in the casual sexism of straight men, the implied misogyny of calling women sluts, bitches, whores, or casually violating autonomy without a second thought. I spent my politically unguided Silicon Valley childhood in the self-assured belief that gay men can’t be sexist. ![]() Today, being gay is associated with progressiveness - an automatic alliance with the intersectional struggle of minorities.
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