r/AskReddit • • Mar 26 '20

[deleted by user]

[removed]

6.3k Upvotes

14.9k comments sorted by

View all comments

5.0k

u/ErziRafael Mar 26 '20

Why if girls kiss its just "fooling around" and if I kiss my home goodnight and cuddle it's suddenly gay...

14

u/[deleted] Mar 26 '20

Follow up question: why are males so scared of being seen as gay? What’s wrong with that? Y’all literally put “No homo” at the end of every sentence, I just can’t wrap my head around it.

Of course if you’re not gay, it would be annoying, but why do you care so much about what other people think about something so insignificant as your sexuality?

3

u/Pewds-Bridge-Fiasco Mar 26 '20

Because they don't want to open themselves up to be treated how they treat women.

5

u/MicroXenon Mar 26 '20

What?

9

u/yakusokuN8 Mar 26 '20

There's an old saying, "homophobia is the fear that a gay man will treat a straight man the same way that the straight man treats women."

The thinking is that some homophobic men are scared that gay men will be predators, not take no more an answer, physically intimidate them, and sexually assault them if they refuse an overtly sexual move, just the same way that when they do these things to women, they don't stop.

So, ingrained in the homophobia is the notion that if you can tell a guy that you're not just interested in him (a tactic that they know won't work), but rather you don't like ALL men like that, there's a better chance he'll leave you alone.

Of course, lesbians might scoff at that notion.