I don't like when we cheapen powerful words like racist, homophobic, pedophile ... by applying them at the slightest opportunity.
"Ignoring a gay woman’s talent and accomplishments and reducing her to his girl on girl porn fetish is both homophobic and misogynistic."
If you start from the position that Joan Jett is legitimately NOT 'Top 100 Guitarists of All-Time'-worthy ... which I think is reasonable to argue ... then really all the dude is guilty of by his actual words is being a bit pervy. But honestly most straight men dig lesbians for prurient reasons like this. Some of them may also be homophobic, but a great many of them are not 
Mostly my issue is with letting dickheads like this manipulate us, as he's clearly doing.
Joan herself handled it PERFECTLY.
This author, OTOH ... did not handle it like I'd prefer.
Better to just ridicule these people and their attempts to annoy us than get into redefining offensive concepts like 'homophobic' to mean anything we can even remotely shoehorn into that class. It cheapens these powerful words, and makes us look over-reactive ... which is THEIR GOAL.
MHO, fwiw.
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