"As I used to say to my students in class, as soon as you tell people you’re gay, they’ll tell you what you think. Just from the fact that I’m gay..."

"... people assumed I endorsed all their positions about whatever," said Allen J. Frantzen, the medieval scholar, who's getting a lot of criticism for his blog post "How to Fight Your Way Out of the Feminist Fog."

I haven't read Frantzen's post yet. I'll get to that. I'm just amused by this idea — which I saw somewhere else recently too — that gay men are presumed to be female-friendly. I remember when gay men were presumed to hate women. When did that flip?

I got to that first link via Instapundit, who observes that "it’s often the gay men who are leading the way." The way... where?

Out of whatever this "feminist fog" is, I guess. I'm going to have to read Frantzen's post....

Frantzen uses the term to refer to "the sour mix of victimization and privilege that makes up modern feminism and that feminists use to intimidate and exploit men." So it's not feminism, per se, but the form it has taken recently and the way it's currently being used. Ironically, Frantzen is assuming the victim position to fight his purported oppressors, the sad new substitute for fighting fire with fire.

Men today live in femfog, a thick mist of anti-male propaganda. 

Help! I'm trapped in a mist!

The man has visualized the oppressor as a low-hanging cloud.

Many men don’t know how to fight it and some don’t even realize that they are fogged up. 

You know, I take metaphor seriously. In my mind, fighting a cloud looks very silly.