Reply #50: I don't think it's so much...

[theHandpuppet]

..being compared to being a weak woman, but being compared to a woman at all. Sadly, it seems that in our culture accusing a man of being "woman-like" is the most insulting thing some people can think of. Think the recent "Bush As Cheerleader" thread. Should it surprise anyone that attacking Bush's masculinity was expressed in homophobic and sexist insults? There's a reason the two often go hand-in-hand... underneath it all lies an insidious cultural misogyny.

Bush may be an evil, ignorant, greedy sociopath, but I'm afraid men will have to claim their own pariahs and stop passing them off on to women and gays.