Well, yes, Justin, ...actually, most ideas of 'machismo' that come out of Christianity have only recently been attached to notions in most places of *effeminacy,*... even in the modern day, as all important guys are concerned, in a lot of Latin cultures, as long as you aren't the receptive partner past a certain age, it's not considered 'feminine' to be gay.
Which has its own inherent issues, of course, but somehow America's become even more hung up than *that.*
Still there's some truth to 'An army of lovers can never be defeated.'
It's not that straights can't *fight,* but they're always instinctively trying to save their own gonads.
I'm teasing, but there's a grain of truth to that, too, ...for the same reason so many are all homophobic, they're also, overly personally-competitive, in their thinking at least, in ways that aren't always the most social. Their own personal offspring (and how to make them) are a *big* deal, whereas, maybe to some others, *everyone's* offspring matter to you.
In a fight, well, who's the most of a team player? Someone with a kid to go home to, or a home to go make a kid in, or someone who tends to see ideals and the unit as family? You know?