Extrapolating from my experience with women (only a tiny minority find me attractive), why would I think that all gay men want to have sex with me?
It's fun to just make up shit about people we disagree with, but it's still dishonest and wrong.
As for cheating, if a man cheats, it doesn't necessarily mean that he's treating women poorly, it means that he's treating a woman poorly.
Regrettable word choice.
(I'm straight, and I normally wouldn't say something like this on HN, but it's sooo perfect right here...)
On that note, one should be able to easily Google up studies that have shown correlation between homophobia and being aroused by gay porn...
"Gay people are not sexually interested in straights"
but in fact, what their data indicates is better stated as:
"Gay people will not attempt to date people they know to be straight"
which is something different.
> The subtext to a lot of homophobic thinking is the idea that gays will try to get straight people into bed at the first opportunity, or that gays are looking to "convert" straights. Freud called this concept schwanzangst; the U.S. Army calls it Don't Ask Don't Tell.
I haven't really heard any arguments from those people that made any sense, but all the same this came across as an uncomfortably large leap.
The explanation isn't that weird though. If you're straight you can always dismiss it, it's not "real", it's just because of this weird situation living with only guys for some time, and out in real life you're as straight as they come. But for gay guys, it is real, so you're a lot more careful about something that might develop into a relationship.