Straight women are especially delighted when the men they love display basic decency or reciprocity, and they tell us so: “I am so lucky to have one of the good ones,” they say. Meanwhile, many of us queers are thinking, “That’s what counts as good?” We also know that the answer is yes, it is what counts as good, because as the folks quoted above explain, many straight men are violent and unpredictable. They are cruel, insensitive, self-centered, and simply boring.
