The same goes for female celebrities (Pink or Michelle Rodriguez, anybody?) who are often mocked by gay male bloggers, throwing out claims that any woman who does not wear make-up or dress up, is automatically a lesbian.

Actually, I’m pretty sure that Michelle Rodriguez is a lesbian since one of her arrests was for domestic violence against her girlfriend. Why gay male bloggers think it’s perfectly fine to taunt lesbians for being gay is a whole different question and a whole other level of hypocrisy.

’ve noticed an increase in a rather disturbing trend among gay male celebrity bloggers (cough Perez cough) who like to make homophobic remarks about straight guys, taunting them for their hairstyles, mannerisms, and clothes, making disgusting homophobic comments, suggesting that if a man does not adhere to “heteronormative” standards, then he is probably GAY.

The same goes for female celebrities (Pink or Michelle Rodriguez, anybody?) who are often mocked by gay male bloggers, throwing out claims that any woman who does not wear make-up or dress up, is automatically a lesbian. WTF, people?

As a queer man, I think the reason goes to the fact that a LOT of gay men I’ve dealt with in life don’t really ‘get’ it. They really don’t see that gender identiy and sexism and homophobia and everything is completely tied together. Some of the nastiest, most sexist comments I have ever heard have been in gay male spaces.

What these gay men want is to get the full male privelige that they think they deserve, not a reexamination of the notion of privelege. It’s also why the HRC goes full steam ahead on the marriage issue while casually exempting the trans community from the nondiscrimination bill.

I see it. Just because others don’t see it doesn’t mean it isn’t there.

Boy, does that sound familiar.

One hopes that the more -isms one becomes familiar with, the easier it is to pick it up when it’s happening to another person/group.

For me, that sentence spoke for itself, if you will. Tom didn’t even have to finish his analysis for me to see/get it.

I have no idea what that says, though.

As far as I’m concerned, if you’re 18 or over and you have a Y chromosome and the requisite plumbing, you are a man, period, end of story.

Yey for extending cisgender privilege to deny people’s identities!