Basically the title.
It is obviously more than something as simple as over-compensation, right?
The concept is really hard for me to understand. I do not get the need for certain groups to obsess over other's sexual identities like we see with the religious right making up all kinds of weird ideas about gay and transfolk, for instance.
They invent all kinds of shit in their minds and just completely obsess over the idea. I do not get it and would like to do some reading into the subject to get a better grasp on this incredibly wide spread thing that is all over western culture.
Like they seem to talk and think about these things they apparently hate so much. At a certain point would you not realize that if these things you despise are all you can think about, there might maybe be something up with yourself?
I'm not gay or trans fwiw. I'm just a straight cishet dude, so maybe the answers to this is way more apparent to people have been on the receiving end of this type of abuse.
There's also the incel movement, the weird nofap stuff, and the obsession of white women having sex with minorities as well. All of this is fucking strange and I do not understand the hangups, especially with how hard people seem to get hung up with these ideas.
Reading recommendations?
For me, the sexual pathology stuff falls under a larger umbrella of denial and structuring your worldview in a way that frames you as a 'good guy.'
I think it's really as simple as, people will do whatever they want to do and then justify it with denial and politics, at least in America. Maybe that's taking a plane all over the world even though they believe in global warming. Maybe it's telling people to vote as primary praxis even though they run a socialist podcast. Maybe it's enjoying being rude to people with lives harder than you, and then justifying it by painting them with a moral negative (gay, trans, etc etc).