— Homophobia: The fear that another man will treat you like you treat women.

[Rozlee]

125. Profound. You've hit the nail on the head.

It's something I've noticed again and again. Homophobes generally don't respect women. They have such rigid ideas of sexual conformity that anything, or anyone, that steps outside the boundaries of their notions of what constitutes normal male or female behavior is labeled a deviant. Witness the way they excoriated Hilary Clinton and other strong women with rumors of lesbianism. Feminists are labeled "femiNazis" and Rush Limbaugh characterized them as all being ugly and not able to get husbands. I guess to an extent most men look up to cops, firefighters, soldiers and for, that matter, so do women. How many action movies or romance novels are there where the hero is an everyday ordinary college professor? And no, by that I don't mean Indiana Jones. But, homophobes take it to a more extreme level. Any man who appreciates the arts is suspect. Female jocks are viewed with suspicion. When I joined the military, the conventional wisdom was that women enlisted for one of three reasons: a) they were so ugly that they figured the male-rich military was the best place to find a husband b) they were nymphos, and c) they were lesbians, or unfeminine, which to them is the same thing. You are 100% right. Homophobia and misogyny seem to be flip sides of the same coin in many men.