Gender & Culture

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Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

I noticed that a lot of the men I have met who have issues with gays are also the men who have problems with women in general. They seem to be disturbed not so much that a man is sleeping with another man, but that the gay man is thinking, acting and (sometimes) looking like a woman. Like being like a woman is a bad thing.

In our masculine culture, the feminine *is* degraded, and degrading. Insults like "you throw like a girl", when all untrained children throw like "girls". Dads start very early to teach their sons to throw properly, to the point that it seems like the kid's a "natural". Images of strength are all male. Success? Male, money, power.

Female is seen as weak, whining, dysfunctional. If that were true, nobody would want to be a girl.

Makes me sad. I think being a girl is a wonderful thing. I'm sure the men in the group are just as happy to be guys. That's fine, too. I just dislike promoting one over the other.