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Most straight women and most straight men have an alarmed and upset reaction if they see an unexpected penis while going about their day. I don’t see this as being a gendered thing at all, although some of the details of the nature of the alarm are gendered and could even involve homophobia, it’s mostly just that suddenly seeing a dick is most often a negative experience.
I literally don’t see anything about this that has to do with sexuality in any way, it feels like you’re just trying to shoehorn that in there.
Sure, an unexpected dick is distracting, no matter who is involved. It might break your concentration, make you feel embarrassed, turn you on, or any one of a thousand reactions, none of which are homophobic.
But "your eyes start to bleed" and "your pupils dilate from the trauma", "roll for therapy", "take psychic damage", those are a different story... The punchline there is that a man seeing another mans dick is traumatic, and that's only "funny" because homophobia.
Jesus Christ you are a caricature of why people don't take the left seriously.
That is all I will say on the matter. We're allowed to have a difference of opinion, I'm just stating mine which is disagreeing with your take on it.
You're the one calling me a caricature for disagreeing with you. Pick a lane
Fair enough, I shouldn't have gotten personal with it, sorry about that.