There is no equivalent among gay men of them fighting for women's rights. But there is plenty of evidence of their misogyny and profound contempt for women. Women like Elizabeth Taylor, Princess Di, Angela Lansbury and so many anonymous women who took a stand for gay men when it wasn't easy or fashionable were thoroughly stabbed in the back when women's rights became endangered.
Take a leaf off of men's book and fight only for yourself. That's what they do! There is no reciprocity. They simply feel entitled to women's free labour and undying loyalty. So stop it and stop being subservient to them.
John Stoltenberg, A Feminist Guide to Gay Male Misogyny
A couple of months ago the Oscars, the 2013 Oscars, opened with a song that Seth MacFarlane sang.
A show of hands, does this ring a bell, did anybody here in the room see this? Maybe about half of you.
Well, let me recap it for those who didn't see it: Seth MacFarlane begins singing a song and the song is "We saw your boobs", and it's a recital of different female actors names and films they appeared in; and the chorus is "in the movie that we saw we saw your boobs". He sings this song and then the curtains open: it's the Los Angeles Gay Men's Chorus. They join in on the last verse.
Remember that the Los Angeles Gay Men's Chorus routinely reminds people of how many of its members died because if AIDS.
What wasn't apparent at the time was that at least four of the women actors who were named in that song lyric, their breasts appeared on screen because their characters had been raped.
Jodie Foster in "The Accused", her breasts were visible on screen during a flashback her character is having about the rape. And her assailants are violently ripping her breasts out of her shirt. (sing songs) "In the movie that we saw we saw your boobs".
Hilary Swank in "Boys Don't Cry", she's playing a trans man, Brandon Teena, we see Hilary Swank's breasts during a medical examination after Teena's character has been brutally raped on the trunk of a car. Her breasts are swollen and dark with bruises and Hillary Swank as the character flinches. (sing songs) "In the movie that we saw we saw your boobs".
Similarly Halle Berry in "Monsters Ball", her name was referenced in this song lyric; Charlize Theron, in "Monster". And I'm setting the scene in this way for my topic today, which is gay male misogyny.
There's actually a conversation about gay male misogyny going on online. It's fairly extensive (…) It's very disturbing, but in a culture that doesn't see gay men who are perceived as queer as men having male privilege our misogyny and sexist acts are instead read as diva worship or celebrating women, even when in reality they are objectification, assault and dehumanization.
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