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I've seen feminists publicly accuse men of being closeted gays to explain "an otherwise inexplicable hatred of women".

I've seen men publicly accuse feminists of being lesbians to explain "an otherwise inexplicable hatred of men."

You're not going to get very far towards any kind of understanding by taking the least worthwhile arguments made by a group of people and projecting that belief on everyone else. That dog won't hunt and it just looks silly.

What's the purpose of this comment? I obviously don't think all feminists walk around saying that. I was simply explaining why that particular shaming tactic was included in the list above.

Really? Got a citation? That sort of homophobia is very uncommon and very unacceptable in many feminist and social justice circles.

(e.g. the large reddit subcommunity dedicated to feminism & social justice "ShitRedditSay"/"SRS"/"the Fempire" has a large discussion (SRSDiscussion) with Rule #1 being: "SRSD is a progressive, feminist, antiracist, GSRM-positive, antiableist community", GSRM = gender, sexual & relationship minorities, i.e. anyone not a cis straight monoagomous person. Homophobic language would fall afoul of that)

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