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[–]Q-Continuum-kin 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

In about 2000 I would browse message boards and see tons of posts from gay guys in high school who were afraid of their homophobic family and community. They were afraid of being disowned or kicked out when they turned 18. I would basically spam the same message to all of them. Study as hard as possible to get a scholarship to help pay for college, go into STEM, and if the family kicks you out move to campus and use the LGBT center on campus to help with housing during breaks. I know i wasn't the only person doing this either. Even back then the TRAs we're there but they were always talking about useless petty shit and not many people listened to their crap.

For some reason gay girls don't seem to face the same fear of being outcastes from their own family.

[–]reluctant_commenter 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

For some reason gay girls don't seem to face the same fear of being outcastes from their own family.

Some of us do, unfortunately.

It does seem like a lot of straight men tend to direct more vitriolic hate towards gay men than they do towards gay women, though-- and they also seem likelier to express that hatred in violence than straight women.

[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Because girls have a lot more biological worth than simply being a means of reproduction. This is also why their lives are so much better in almost every way except for having periods, which I think are grossly exaggerated, and why the whole world rushes to solve their every inconvenience while forcibly sending young men and teenagers to hard work and even war, and reprimanding their "whining" and calling them selfish pigs when they need help with the depression and psychological trauma this causes.

But maybe I'm just biased, real men want to be men.