• GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    It’s a distraction. People won’t care about tax cuts and tariffs if they have something like this to be furious about. Honestly, I’d never really heard of or thought about a trans person until that manufactured bathroom bill all those years ago. I just assumed there were crossdressers and maybe a few people who got sex changes occasionally. Even then I was confused as fuck why it was something to worry about.

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      19 hours ago

      The people that wake up in a cold sweat about where trans women (they focus about 99% of their energy on trans women) are relieving themselves seems to be relatively low and I bet it’s nearly the same people that obsessed over gay marriage (between men, especially - again, it seems their energies are nearly all directed at gay men and what they do behind closed doors). Which is weird, because I’m cishet, and this kind of thing is not something that I ever really find myself worrying about, like, ever.

      But there is a certain kind of man that just seems to get so worked up over the very notion of trans women (and honestly, they still obsess over gay men, too, it’s just that they lost the battle over gay marriage and people now just mostly yawn at the idea of gay marriage), and I think we can make a pretty good guess as to why they have these obsessions.

      And then there are the people like Nancy Mace that are probably mostly doing it for performative bullshit points for their stupid marks.

      • GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works
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        18 hours ago

        It’s manufactured outrage, they did the same thing with abortion. Nobody cared about it before the Republican party started telling people to care about it.