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Feminist theorist Marilyn Frye claims that misogyny is phallogocentric and homoerotic at its root.

In Politics of Reality, Frye analyzes the alleged misogyny characteristic of the fiction and Christian apologetics of C. S.

Lewis.

Frye argues that such misogyny privileges the masculine as a subject of erotic attention.

She compares the alleged misogyny characteristic of Lewis ' ideal of gender relations to underground male prostitution rings, which allegedly share the quality of men seeking to dominate subjects seen as less likely to take on submissive roles by a patriarchal society, but in both cases doing so as a theatrical mockery of women.