Tim, my initial reaction to the following quote--
"Longman should not be publishing the Sullivan/Murphy version, because they are viciously anti-feminist, and they are reputed to be homosexuals!"
was exactly like yours. The two halves of the statement seemed to contradict each. Here's the solution, I think. The writer is not repudiating you for being (gasp!) a reputed homosexual, but, rather, wondering how someone reputed to be a homosexual could be "anti-feminist." That is, how could a member of a class that makes up part of the leftist coalition, a gay man, actually criticize another leftist identity group, feminists.
Sound logical? Otherwise, the professor's head would explode from cognitive dissonance.
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