This is an apologetic by a so-called philosopher in defense of white American cis men pretending to be lesbian women.  At one point, he says: “This back and forth virtual-switching of identification is especially delicious because of course it tacitly involves the illicit thrill of being a woman, at the level of imagination, as well as desiring one.”  Besides the fact that he suddenly thinks he can speak for all straight men, he’s completely erasing trans people too.

What about trans men who would find it nightmarish to return to a female body, even for a fantasy?  What about trans women who when fantasizing about being a lesbian, didn’t do it for kicks, but because that’s her actual identity?  What about gender fluid people who genuinely experience some situations as lesbians but others situations differently, even when with the same partner?

He also claims this lesbian-empathy is why men are so accepting of lesbians but so rejecting of homosexuals.  Cuz it doesn’t have worth as its own thing unless it titillates a straight cis man.  Got it.