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Carl Dari's avatar

Nice read Tom!

I would also like to read about gays' difficult situation in the 50s.

My strong believe is that they were disdained because they did not fulfill the gynocentric order.

- They did not marry women nor provided for them.

- They did not procreate and assured the continuation of the family and the village

- They were believed not to be suitable to protect the house/village.

- They were not believed to be able to protect the nation or sacrifice their life for others.

They had it worse than lesbians for sure.

Gays were fighting for their rights in very difficult times, then came the feminism who hijacked the csd movement. They claimed the fruits of the movement but they never actively did anything for the gays. They still hate men, no matter if hetero of gay. Some gays understood that and disassociate with feminists.

Still now it is commonly believed that 'homophobia' comes from 'hetero-normative patriarchy'. But in reality, it was coming from society including women. I hope the feminist lie about patriarchy vanishes one day.

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Phillip Hickox's avatar

Reading your article reflects the thoughts, ideas, and hypotheses that I have developed over the decades.

It took me many years to the develop the strategy to deal with the manipulation that would occur when I said NO!

Saying NO, to the women I worked with would then bring out their arsenal of guilt-tripping, shaming ect.

When I was able to identify what they were doing, I would say things like;

"Does this work on your husband/boyfriend?"

"Are you practising on me for when you get home?"

Reading "The Rantings of a Single Male" by Thomas Ellis he identified how men are accused of misogyny when they disagree with women.

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