"... but many gays aren�t laughing. A Huffington Post commenter decried the phrase, writing, 'we do not need this type of exposure, as it does not help our LGBT community at all,' and Zach Stafford has penned a screed against the thing in the Guardian, declaring that it relies on a logic of 'bottom-shaming,' the essentially misogynistic notion that bottoming is more effeminate�and therefore a lesser act�than topping. Stafford�s point is well-taken (I definitely share his dislike for the way bottom-shaming often creeps into gay men�s discourse), but I wonder if it�s totally fair...."
From a surprisingly long piece at Slate by J. Bryan Lowder called "Should Gays Bottom for Hillary?"
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