When you think of it hating the people you're horny for seems to be a reactionary staple. And it's not only minorities, they also love to slut shame heterosexual women for being too sexy, despite obviously desiring them.
A common explanation is that reactionaries use bigotry to hide their true sexual desires from themselves and their surroundings, ie. they are scared and ashamed of how much thinking about having gay sex turns them on so they double down on homophobia so nobody, themselves included, will think they're gay. While this might be true in some cases (like all those homophobic evangelical preachers being found having sex with male sex workers) I don't think it is the general case and using it has some potentially homophobic/transphobic connotations.
I think it works in a different way most of the time. Most homophobes are straight, most transphobes would never actually have sex with a trans person. To reactionaries sex is inherently shameful and undignified, due to the weird Victorian prudishness that still lingers in conservative ideology. Their misogyny makes them see sex as an act in which the dominant male part takes something from the conquered female part. They simply think of sexuality in the same way they think of bigotry. By sexualising the objects of their hate they are really denigrating them, and separating them from their ideal of the chaste Übermensch.
Dehumanization of "the enemy" leads to reactionaries viewing them as objects rather than people. They also view the women they're attracted to as objects. Perhaps the wires get crossed and they go from "women are attractive" to "objectified people are attractive".
When you think of it hating the people you're horny for seems to be a reactionary staple. And it's not only minorities, they also love to slut shame heterosexual women for being too sexy, despite obviously desiring them.
A common explanation is that reactionaries use bigotry to hide their true sexual desires from themselves and their surroundings, ie. they are scared and ashamed of how much thinking about having gay sex turns them on so they double down on homophobia so nobody, themselves included, will think they're gay. While this might be true in some cases (like all those homophobic evangelical preachers being found having sex with male sex workers) I don't think it is the general case and using it has some potentially homophobic/transphobic connotations.
I think it works in a different way most of the time. Most homophobes are straight, most transphobes would never actually have sex with a trans person. To reactionaries sex is inherently shameful and undignified, due to the weird Victorian prudishness that still lingers in conservative ideology. Their misogyny makes them see sex as an act in which the dominant male part takes something from the conquered female part. They simply think of sexuality in the same way they think of bigotry. By sexualising the objects of their hate they are really denigrating them, and separating them from their ideal of the chaste Übermensch.
Dehumanization of "the enemy" leads to reactionaries viewing them as objects rather than people. They also view the women they're attracted to as objects. Perhaps the wires get crossed and they go from "women are attractive" to "objectified people are attractive".