CotD: a certain kind of homophobe

Commenter Glen Tomkins, over at Lawyers, Guns and Money, discusses what’s behind Michael Medved’s homophobia:

It’s inaccurate and misplaced to speak about these homophobes from the point of view of sexuality being about attraction. Straight men who feel uncomfortable at the very idea that men they work with might look on them as potential sex objects are telling us that their experience of being sexually active men is that sexuality for them is essentially a way to express domination and aggression, rather than affection. They aren’t worried that gay co-workers will find them attractive. That would be flattering. They’re worried that gay men are really the same as they are, that sexual attention from a gay man indicates his desire to dominate. Of course they don’t want to be dominated, even if they are just fine with dominating the unfortunate women in their lives themselves. That’s what women are for, in their worldview. It’s in the Bible, or something.

2 Comments

  • Palau

    February 23, 2007 at 4:22 am

    I know it’s flippant but I’ve been saying for the past 6 years that US domestic and foreign policy is driven mostly by the Republicans’ subverted desire for a good ass-reaming.

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