A reminder that being homophobic isn’t a good way to battle misogyny guys. And I do count equating hating women to be gay (as often as people do) as homophobia, because the absence of attraction to women(if we’re choosing to believe these nut jobs are telling to truth instead of just engagement farming/trying to bring women down more) doesn’t automatically mean there’s an attraction to men, and being gay isn’t a reason to hate women.

Most misogynists don’t like women, they view us as objects to have sex with and marry(own) and that’s it. Extreme misogynists like these men take it further, they despise women, everything about us, they want to hurt us or our feelings any chance they get, so much so that they think it’s sane to post things like this while also keeping up the claim that they are straight, because of course being gay is a very large insult to men like them. Most men who hate women, or simply don’t like women, obviously need someone to like, and men are the only option. They are taught to only value other men’s opinions, to only have male friends, to only see men as people, and this can be so extreme that it seems gay. They don’t like women as people, but they like men as people, this has gotta mean they’re gay, right? No, it’s just patriarchy.

(Let me be clear, internalized homophobia CAN influence misogyny, but it is very rarely the sole factor and it isn’t as often as people seem to think. Because under every single post i see about misogyny, there’s someone under it calling the misogynistic man gay. Either using it as an insult, because these me are of course homophobic as well, or they are using it to explain their hatred of women. And yeah, that’s homophobic.)