socially programmed self loathing
As I proceed through transition I am addressing the question of sexuality. Now if you'd known me all my life at a bit of a distance you'd immediately say I was going to be a gay man. Truth. I have a lot in common with gay men. Including sex with men and a history thereof. But I find women more visually attractive. When I fantasize, I'm a man with a woman. Not a man with a man (although gay porn is hawt) and not as the woman in the scene. However, and this sorrows me, the porn fantasies that work on me are viciously misogynistic. So to homophobia. I was raised with it. To the degree that the kids and parents would fight about it at the table. Homophobia so bad even their children could see it was unreasonable. My father would state, upon the subject being broached, that "as far as [he] was concerned, all fags should be lined up against the wall and shot!" His stance weakened over the years as he got better educated about who those "fags" were. IE, m...