Sometimes I wonder if my feelings about women would be any different if I were straight.
Would I really think they couldn’t run a Fortune 100 company because they weren’t bright enough? Would I really think they shouldn’t be on a battlefield because they’re not tough enough? Would I be part of an old boy’s network that would keep them out?
A long time ago, Roseann Barr told lesbians in her audience,
“What do you know about hating men? You don’t have to fuck them!”
Is that the missing piece to understanding misogyny? Sexual attraction? Does sexual tension create that love/hate ping-pong? If I wanted women the way I want men would my opinions of them change?
I doubt it. If sexual tension was necessary to create opposite feelings about the object of your desire, then why isn’t it a phenomenon in gay circles? Few could say there’s a woman-hating fog in lesbian life or a serious man-bashing theme in gay life.
Whatever the answer is I often think about how I’d treat women if I were straight. Would my attitudes change? I doubt it. I think I’d just be a pro-woman horn-dog. You know, the feminist in the tittie-bar.