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Similar to the Republican “evolution” on gay people that’s happened within the last five or so years, I think if there are actually some landmark successes in trans rights, we’ll see a lot more conservatives being like “Of course we don’t mind trans people, please don’t find out anything we’ve said earlier than last year about it, though.” Just cynical lip service to attract some voters.
Tom Lehrer, welcome to the #Resistance.
kinda blows my mind sometimes when i think about how many white women are vocally/outspoken conservative, as though the hardened core of the movement wouldn’t Handmaid’s Tale them all in a heartbeat if they could.
I think it’s a combination of:
- Most people generally not thinking through the implications of their political beliefs,
- A lot of those “beliefs” being more aesthetic/cultural choices than stuff they’re deeply invested in,
- How easy it is to call for radical changes when the odds of those changes touching your life are minimal, and
- Some understanding that – as a huge right-wing constituency – really fucking them over would be difficult.
Cut to the scene in that one documentary where Lauren Southern is getting sexually harassed by Gavin McInnes, like gee I wonder if there’s a global movement by women for women that seeks to address exactly that sort of thing.
Unironically though, Caitlyn Jenner (also Blair White and similar) does not deserve any transphobia but she does deserve the wall.
