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Jasmine Crockett gives Marjorie Taylor Greene a lesson in "Engaging in Personalities" (slrpnk.net)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Also, isn't "butch" kind of an anti-gay slur?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

It can be, but I don't think sexuality was relevant in this exchange about fakeness and feminine/masculine presentation.

MTG used something feminine as an insult and the response was that MTG does something similar but on the masculine end of the spectrum. It sounded to me like she was calling MTG a hypocrit, not gay.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Butch is one end of a spectrum with femme on the other end. It can be used insultingly, but it's not anti-gay. If anything it's extremely gay.

It might be slightly sexist to throw at someone unprompted, but I think it's pretty fine in this context. It's not like she's using it on a trans woman. She's biting back at another cis woman who attacked her appearance by telling her she looks masculine, showing she can go low too, and is a better at it. She even alliterates literally 6 words in a row during a coherent insult. MTG couldn't do that if she had all week.

Honestly, the left needs more of this.