Usually portrayed—often simplistilly—as ironclad, the bonds between gay men and straight women have been the foc of much bate lately. Actrs Rose McGowan ed a stir last month when she scribed gay men as “as misogynistic as straight men, if not more so” and blasted gay men for not standg up more for women's rights. More recently, rapper Azealia Banks echoed McGowan's remarks as she r...
Contents:
- DO GAY MALE CULTURE HAVE A MISOGYNY PROBLEM?
- 'THEY JT WANTED TO SILENCE HER': THE DARK SI OF GAY STAN CULTURE
DO GAY MALE CULTURE HAVE A MISOGYNY PROBLEM?
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Usually portrayed—often simplistilly—as ironclad, the bonds between gay men and straight women have been the foc of much bate lately. Actrs Rose McGowan ed a stir last month when she scribed gay men as “as misogynistic as straight men, if not more so” and blasted gay men for not standg up more for women's rights. McGowan is hardly alone her belief that gay men are generally myopic about the rights of other opprsed groups.
Dpe the prevalence of straight woman/gay man bt iend clich, 's fair to say that gay men's relatnships wh and attus toward women are often more plex than what's portrayed your typil episo of “Will and Grace.
” Still, plexy is not evince of misogyny, and to claim that gay men are misogynistic pends on how you classify what nstut misogyny. Certaly, the humor that gay men engage n flirt wh misogyny. From the gossipy slut-shamg of Hilton's blog to the mpy bchft that is RuPl's Drag Race, gay men have long been known to engage the kd of polilly rrect, bg repartee that often mak women the butt of the joke.
'THEY JT WANTED TO SILENCE HER': THE DARK SI OF GAY STAN CULTURE
Who among the LGBT muny n claim to not know any of the followg typ of gay men: Men whose social circle nsists almost exclively of other gay men. Men who ll their bt female iends “fag hags” or “u fli” and who put them down routely while draggg them to gay bars or dance clubs? Not all gay men do this—not even most do.
The gay rights movement has largely succeed nvcg the world that LGBT folk are “normal” but, perhaps as a si effect of the assiatnist tennci, has taken on some of the unfortunate baggage associated wh mastream culture, cludg s misogyny. Gay men are still mocked for their tennci to be histrnic, monstrative, and emotnal—i.
" Should we be surprised, then, that so many gay men have ternalized the cricisms and, an attempt to monstrate their “masculy, ” mean women the procs? In his documentary, Do I Sound Gay?, to be released next year by IFC/Sundance Selects, David Thorpe ets over his long-standg securi about his voice and speech. In seekg to fd the root for the speech patterns that many gay men share, he terviews gay celebri, voice ach, and lguists and disvers that his ep aversn for “soundg gay” is shared by many other gay men.