gay men are above women in the hierarchy of intersectionalism.
That's just not true. Gay guys get more points if they're Gays of Color, but white gay men are absolutely not let off the hook for their "toxic masculinity." Women are by far the most fanatical enforcers of the social expectation that gay men are supposed to be effeminate and pursue feminine interests. Women tend to take it extremely personally if they meet a gay guy who is not interested in going shopping for clothes or going to see a rom com, or even if he just acts like a normal, reasonably masculine heterosexual.
Even gay men are not allowed to have their own spaces, as is evidenced by the loud, obnoxious drunken bridal parties that invade gay bars and grope the patrons. Certainly women's desire to police male behaviour does not stop at straight men.
if he just acts like a normal, reasonably masculine heterosexual.
Yes because he would be seen as NOT GAY, then.
As long as he acts like a flaming queen, he can just totally savage women, though, and they'll just let it happen because "oh he's so catty!"
But basic white women absolutely lose in any conflict. They are the bottom of the totem pole and they are expected to make any and all sacrifices to further the intersectional cause. Those who stick up for themselves are labelled as TERFs and excommunicated.
That's just not true. Gay guys get more points if they're Gays of Color, but white gay men are absolutely not let off the hook for their "toxic masculinity." Women are by far the most fanatical enforcers of the social expectation that gay men are supposed to be effeminate and pursue feminine interests. Women tend to take it extremely personally if they meet a gay guy who is not interested in going shopping for clothes or going to see a rom com, or even if he just acts like a normal, reasonably masculine heterosexual.
Even gay men are not allowed to have their own spaces, as is evidenced by the loud, obnoxious drunken bridal parties that invade gay bars and grope the patrons. Certainly women's desire to police male behaviour does not stop at straight men.
Yes because he would be seen as NOT GAY, then.
As long as he acts like a flaming queen, he can just totally savage women, though, and they'll just let it happen because "oh he's so catty!"
But basic white women absolutely lose in any conflict. They are the bottom of the totem pole and they are expected to make any and all sacrifices to further the intersectional cause. Those who stick up for themselves are labelled as TERFs and excommunicated.