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Originally posted by NX127
Because I'm a gay male, aka. attracted to males, aka. attracted to masculinity.
If I wanted femininity in my sexual partner, I would be dating girls.
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But that’s exactly it. Femininity and masculinity are constructs of the society we live in not black-and-white facts.
Strip a masc and a femme man naked and they both are 100% men. You only add ideas of gender based on their clothing, talking style, body movements, etc. and the connotations of those things change over time.
I’m guessing you’re not into men wearing heels. Would you also be disgusted with men wearing heels in the 1600s when it was considered normal for men to wear them?
To say that a gay man that is more “femme” is basically a woman is insulting and yes, internalized homophobia. The same violent, aggressive standards that gets boys beat up for playing with dolls. By this logic all boys should do boy stuff and play military games and sports and grow beards or they are basically a woman.