Simon Amstell's appealg, tobgraphil but feature is a gay romantic edy of sorts, though s tle character might disagree.
Contents:
- OP-ED: GAY MEN NEED TO BE FEMISTS, TOO
- LOVE, VICTOR REVIEW: MORE GAY TEEN ANGST SOLID LOVE, SIMON SP-OFF
OP-ED: GAY MEN NEED TO BE FEMISTS, TOO
Are we gay men who claim to be femist really so? The spate of anti-women legislatn mands we start showg up for women. * benjamin gay linkedin *
Lately, mors about the Amerin sger-songwrer Alec Benjam beg gay have been gog on around.
Dpe beg a very well-known face, Benjam has kept his personal life que private, which has led people to make assumptns about the about the sger beg gay have been circulatg for que a while now. Even the all-male environments that I’ve equented, om golf urs to gay bars to locker rooms, I never enuntered the kd of btish sexism that Donald Tmp broadst as he mpaigned for office.
And yet I know his ntug sults agast women are not sgular; attacks are fterg om a wi st of misogynists, om the Llie Moonv type to the “cel” type to the Alabama statehoe is forcg some soul searchg on me — namely nontg the worseng attus toward women next to the rapid-fire gas of gay male liberatn recent years. If any group has been steadfast s support of gay men, is femists. In return, are we gay men who claim to be femist really so?
LOVE, VICTOR REVIEW: MORE GAY TEEN ANGST SOLID LOVE, SIMON SP-OFF
You know that social lore that valoriz gay men as more refed and more sensive — so athetilly superr to everyone else?
Knowg que a few gay men at the top of their profsns — media, fashn, philanthropy, amia — I wns a aterny of privilege ightengly different to the backlash agast women. Gay men might march toward universalized marriage and child-adoptn rights. But that ethos shouldn’t sce gay men to downplay genr-based prejudice.
Our growg cln to marriage and childrearg don’t necsarily tensify gay men’s bond to women; n heighten our empathy for entled straight men. As gay men bee more vted heterosexual normativy, we have to redouble our efforts to dismantle s worst aspects.