[Ronly Bonly Jones]

"homosexuality is not really attraction toward men, it is a form of hatred: in particular, hatred of women"

I just happened to run across this aging thread and your fascinating post. I've always wondered about this assertion. If being gay is all about the hatred of women, how come gay guys have so many close women friends?>>

They hate women *physically*. They despise real men on an emotional level because their manhood is a rebuke, but they hate women on a visceral, physical level. It's revulsion toward that which should attract, attraction toward that which should revolt.

Why? One word: MOTHER. Freud was right. Gay men are made, not born; they are trained by Mama, untrained by Dad, then recruited by Bruce, usually at a very young age.

[Kahonek]

I've never been much for Freudian theory, but I'm still not sure how you would explain why gay men have so many female friends if they have a visceral hatred of women, and why many of them report being attracted to "real" men if they despise them. Is this what Freud would have termed a "reaction formation?"