I realize I like gay men because the majority of gay men aren’t hypersexualizing women. Women are cited as going to gay clubs to “escape” being harassed or citing feeling “free to let their guards down”. Misogyny operates in complex, multifaceted ways, where a woman’s (cis or trans) or feminine individual’s personhood is understood ( in heterosexist spaces) in relationship to the male gaze. That is one’s being is read and understood through the POV of the men present. Where a man’s humanity is presupposed as superior— a sort of ontological truth. This is how misogyny and the gendered racialization thereof (transmysoginoir) is both enacted and upheld by men and women alike.