Original sentence: It is not made clear why male heterosexuals would "need" to fear gay people in order to affirm maleness unless they perceived that their sexuality was already threatened by another factor.Other theories of the difference in the reactions of homophobes to male-male versus female-female homosexual relationships simply have to do with a common sexual desire
Edited sentence: It is not made clear why heterosexual men would "need" to fear gay people in order to affirm maleness unless they perceived that their sexuality was already threatened by another factor.Other theories of the difference in homophobic reactions to male-male rather than female-female homosexual relationships simply have to do with a common sexual desire