In Politics Of Reality, Frye argues that male heterosexual culture is fundamentally homoerotic: "The people whom ... [men] admire, respect, adore, honor, whom they imitate, idolize, and form profound attachments to, whom they are willing to teach and from whom they are willing to learn, and whose respect, admiration, recognition, honor, reverence and love they desire ... those are, overwhelmingly, other men."

As a case in point, Frye analyzes the phallogocentrism she believes is characteristic of the fiction and Christian apologetics of C.S. Lewis. Frye argues that such phallogocentrism privileges the masculine in understanding meaning or gender relations. She compares the homoeroticism characteristic of Lewis' ideal of gender relations to underground male prostitution rings, which share the same quality of men seeking to dominate subjects considered as less likely to take on submissive roles by a patriarchal society, but in both cases doing so as a theatrical mockery of women.

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