Additionally, this way of framing up men in society causes us to internalize homophobia. If we experience platonic physical contact, we ask ourselves if the other will consider it gay and how that affects their perception of us. We fear the rejection that comes with someone else’s internalized homophobia and the reactions it generates in them, and therefore fear the repercussions of actually enjoying physical male contact. Fearing our own rejection for being queer or even just the perception that we are internalizes that homophobia in ourselves.