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Yeah, but... I want to ask why not? The very uptight patriarchs as well as the more usual blase heterosexual men that I've known certainly have often reacted poorly around openly homosexual men.
And, then consider that our current rightwing patriarchs in power are choking against a thin public leash of tolerance, barely kept from using wholesale police-state tactics against homosexuals.
So there is something going on there.
Maybe it goes something like this. Patriarchy doesn't just effect and oppress women, but other men as well. What you feel is their effect on you and women.
But what I see is their effect on me, and on men. We agree we don't like them and they are our political enemies, but we might disagree on the details. For example in US culture, I think patriarchy is almost wholly devoted to oppressing other men, and that the oppression of women is in some sense a sloppy byproduct of the male authoritarian mind set. From this view, women appear in something like the same category as boys or juvenals, `minors' much as the laws and social institutions conceived women prior to the 1920s and then again prior to 1960-70s.
While we might disagree on the details, maybe we agree on the remedy. The only good Patriarch is a dead Patriarch, no matter who he fucked.
Chuck Grimes