I was running my favorite 5k path Monday and this shirtless attractive guy in his late teens/early 20s is running the opposite direction, and I, of course, check him out, perhaps a little to boldly.
His lip curled and I heard him say, “Faggot.” To which my response was, “Uhm, yeah.”
Now every straight guy I know checks out every attractive woman and evaluates if they are hot enough for him to want to have sex with them, and then fantasizes about what they would do to the hot chick if they were lucky enough to be naked with them. (Yes, every straight man checks out attractive women, and those who say otherwise are lying) So I find it a bit hypocritical for a guy to react negatively when I check them out.
The only reason Megan Fox, Kirsten Johnson, Taylor Swift, Anna Kornikova and Danica Patrick have careers is because guys like looking at them. (Upon reflection its not fair to say the only reason these women have careers is because of their looks, but I do feel safe in saying that their careers wouldn't have reached the peaks that they have if straight men didn't enjoy looking at them.) Also, when guys watch woman's tennis, it isn't because they like the game. Guys like looking at attractive people and then fantasizing about them, and for a straight guy to call me out on behavior that he himself engages in is like a violation of the man code really.
The man code is very specific on stopping other guys from looking, it offers three exemptions, ones for Mother, Sister and Wife/girlfriend/mistress, other than that everything is fair game. So reacting badly to another guy checking you out is in fact a violation of the man code. Looking is perfectly acceptable, as evidenced by the phrase straight guys repeat ad nauseam, “I'm married, but I can still look.”
It's not like I was planning on knocking him into the bushes and raping him. I was just doing what I'm sure he was doing to every attractive female, or lets be honest, every thin female under the age of 40 on the course that morning... taking a mental picture to use for later.
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I think a man who was secure about his sexuality would have taken being checked out as a complement regardless of who was doing the checking out.
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