Do most straight guys think gay guys only see them as objects?

I don't think so. Of the straight guys I'm out to, most seem to forget that I'm gay until I pass on an invite to Hooter's or Soft Tails' or any one of a number of local topless bars. When I decline, I get to watch them clutch up as they try to figure out a tactful way to say that they forgot.

If I was an object for them I wouldn't get the courtesy and consideration I do when I'm around them.

Where I seem to get seen as an object, work, isn't because of my sexuality. I know that because I'm not out at work. I get seen as an object for several reasons; Males make up a third of the team, two of them are part time guys with designated tasks, the other guy has been with the company 4 years and gets sent off on his own tasks. That leaves me, with a knowledge of tools, usage of tools, and a background in warehouse work.

All of which has conspires to make me very sick of hearing my own name of late. I don't feel so much like a coworker as I do a multitasking muiltitool. I have an assignment and a limited time to complete it, but I have to take away from that time to help two of the ladies set a beam in a warehouse rack, and be polite and helpful to customers along the way from one end of a building with the footprint of the size of Central Park to utilize brute force and old memories of working in a commercial warehouse while I was in high school.

Being gay doesn't make me feel objectified. Being good at the sort of work I'm used to doing does. And, if I really want to feel obectified, and I can't imagine why I'd want to, I let people know that I carry a set of lockpicks and am fairly proficient with them, at which point I cease to become remotely human and instead become a key for any lock that they're too impatient to wait for someone that has the key to open a lock for them.

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Why would straight guys be thinking about how gay guys see them?

The ones that do actually thinks EVERYBODY sees them as an object!!! Ego plays a BIGGER part in that than whether or not you're gay!!!

I don't think straight people think that. they probly don't pay attention to that kind of thing until a gay guy actually starts flirting with them or asks them out.

A minority if them do. Although I have met straight men, who were surprised how monogamous I am. I enlightened him on the matter, he is much more informed now

If I don't know them or their sexuality, I do tend to see them as objects. Course, I'm also a sl*t.

I've never bothered considering it because I don't want to be in a relationship with one. I'm sure most straight men feel the same way.

It's a stereotype that straight men see gays this way and it's a stereotype that straights see gay men this way. Paradoxes all around~.

Many straight guys do think that gays think of them as objects, and many gays do think of them as objects.

I hope you are doing well.. It's been a few years.

They see gay guys as little bitchy girls. They don't have any respect to them... I think that sucks(no pun intended)