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?
This is a very interesting topic. I can possibly respond more later. Wilhem Reich did theorize about this and proposed that the family is actually the origin of fascistic impulses. Reich's work has been used um....creatively to say the least.... (People tend to go "Oh, other that sex weather control guy who thinks it is healthy to have orgasms. Let me give him lip service in my neo tantra book!" Some of his political writings were actually really good.
There has to be more theorists and ideas about this but I'm drawing a blank atm. Like feminist theory has to have something extensive on this.