• Venus [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    7 months ago

    Is this gonna be another example of conservative “comedy” where they get so mad at their own strawman halfway through the joke that they forget there’s supposed to be a punchline

  • bdonvr@thelemmy.clubOP
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    7 months ago

    My mom sent me this and said “must watch”

    My mother is a post-op trans woman btw, and also the most reactionary conservative person I have ever met.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      7 months ago

      My mother is a post-op trans woman btw, and also the most reactionary conservative person I have ever met.

      May even be some boomeresque sunk cost fallacy: “UNLESS YOU SPENT X DOLLARS ON SURGERY LIKE I DID, YOU DON’T COUNT!”

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        7 months ago

        there are a sect of (mostly, in my experience) older, white trans people who still seem to be locked into the rigid structure of gender roles and believe that you can only be considered your gender after numerous (very expensive!) surgeries and presenting in a certain way.

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          7 months ago

          Capitalist mindset means everything is more legitimate if it’s also more expensive.

          Oh, nice apartment, but it’s not a real house, unlike my McMansion.

          Cute boat, but my yacht is better.

          Oh you have a functional car? Yeah I drive a hummer.

          Darling, you took an uber here? My chauffeur drove me in a limousine.

          Etc etc.

          • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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            7 months ago

            That’s why rich assholes make the worst relatives at social gatherings, too. They’re the ones that must be the toppers all the time: “oh, you went on vacation to (affordable) place? I went to (expensive) place with authentic (foreign thing that is prestigious to insufferable rich assholes)” as a regular conversation topic.

        • Orannis62 [ze/hir]@hexbear.net
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          7 months ago

          To a large degree it’s a function of what medical gatekeeping for transition looked like until 2011 in the US. You get through that either by learning to lie to doctors (often with community support) or internalizing it heavily.

          You still see that with younger transmeds/people who self identify as HSTS. But I think you’re right that it’s mostly older white trans people.

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            oh yeah it is absolutely the medical structure that made so many of them internalize it. i’ve observed that so many of them seem to treat transness as a disease or an unfortunate affliction they must overcome through treatment and that’s 100% a result of navigating the medical system. its an inherent flaw with tying transition to the medical system i think, but i digress.

            but its also just them being older too. they just grew up with heavier enforcement of the patriarchal standard (women look this way, men look this way, you need these parts to be female and these parts to be male). its super generational, i think younger transmeds are a very loud yet tiny minority.

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        7 months ago

        Transmedicalists are unfortunately a real thing, and as you could imagine, they do tend to be very white and privileged.

    • Saving Christmas

      excuse me, in this house it is called Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas.

      It was directed by Darren Doane and written by Doane and Cheston Hervey, based on an original story by Kirk Cameron.

      The movie stars Cameron as a fictionalized version of himself. In Saving Christmas, Cameron, after explaining his views on Christmas directly to the audience, tries to convince his fictional brother-in-law, played by the film’s director, that Christmas is still a Christian holiday.

      The film received a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It was nominated in six categories for the 35th Golden Raspberry Awards and won four, including Worst Picture. It also became the lowest-rated film on the IMDb Bottom 100 List within one month of its theatrical release, and is now considered one of the worst films of all time.

      Christian complains that several elements of Christmas, most notably Christmas trees, are not biblical in origin. Cameron tells him that Christmas trees were God’s idea since God created trees.

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        7 months ago

        Christian complains that several elements of Christmas, most notably Christmas trees, are not biblical in origin. Cameron tells him that Christmas trees were God’s idea since God created trees.

        galaxy-brain

  • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    7 months ago

    I’m not triggered by it, I’m just probably not going to watch it. It’s not like it makes me mad, it’s just annoying. Triggers are totally recognized by the right when it’s a troop being haunted by the ghosts of the children they slaughtered. Safe spaces are easily communicated when it’s your horrible wife interrupting football on the TV.

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      7 months ago

      Edgelord shit like that is the safe space for edgelords. And their “trigger” is people telling them to not be assholes.