In college, we were subjected to a crap presentation about equality and diversity, and there was a rather loud and homophobic girl who said "I'm a feminist me", and went on to talk about how she was great, and all men were evil. It was obvious that she didn't know the second thing about feminism, but it got me wondering about homophobic feminists. Given the links between homophobia and misogyny, I don't see how it could work.
Because she wasn't a true feminist, but just a sexist who happens to be female. And it's not really hard to imagine why a sexist would not be really in favour of real equality for everyone..
Yeah, that's not a feminist. There are no sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic feminists. If you refuse one set of rights (especially when many are based around gender), you're not for equality at all.
There is some precedence for this, actually. Betty Friedan, for example, used to argue that lesbians posed a threat to the feminist movement (I'm pretty sure she changed her views later). I don't where homophobia against men would come from other than via a misapplied dislike of men in general.
That's almost an oxymoron, as ultra-Christian loudmouths scream that feminism encourages girls/women to "become" lesbians.
Right, I would think heterophobia would make more sense, since any oppression toward feminists may have come more so from the establishment than from the GLBT community. Something doesn't add up, at least for me.
This reminds me of this women who writes in the guardian who claims that feminists like "her" became lesbians because its a feminist life. She didn't like it when people mentioned that by definition she must be a bisexual if she choose to ignore men
