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bodacious ta-tas (hexbear.net)
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[–] 16 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I don't disagree with you, but my gut instinct for why they've latched onto the imagery of a big breasted blonde woman is pure transphobia. They're trying to purport women like Sweeney represent a cosmic ideal of womanhood and that anyone trans (man/woman/otherwise) will fail to meet her innate level somehow.

They're trying to circle the wagons on aesthetics I guess. They're getting weird about it, saying their preferences are universally and biologically ingrained.

Or my other suspicion is that a lot of reactionaries are closet bi/gay and are using the abstract ideal of Sydney Sweeney to hide how gay they are? I don't know. We've gotten into weird territory.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    it's transphobia, it's homophobia, it's misogyny, it's a little racism. the inside of their skulls looks like a septic tank.

    (I don't think the Closeted Homophobe hypothesis holds for 99% of them. Rod is one of the big exceptions.)

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago*

    yeah, I always kneejerk go towards the closeted homophobe thing because it's been true anecdotally three times now with people from my hometown. I shouldn't lean on it so much, sorry.

    I just hate these reactionaries and want them to die

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I have this tendency to look at what is happening and the implications of acting like that more than the why. That leaves me with this black box of incomprehensible emotional mush. I feel like it tracks that every time they rag against blue hair, 15 seconds later they're gonna say some "and now you don't even know what gender your car is!!" They'd have some idea to the effect of this actress being more correct and therefore more beautiful. If you're confused, you should simply strive to be like her or (let's be real, they'd like "and" instead) die trying.

    Do you really think the reason boils down to pure transphobia? Not like in conjunction with some loss of a privileged position where people couldn't talk back to you?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    maybe it's immaterial of me, but recently I've been seeing almost all bigotry (transphobia, misogyny, racism, etc) as constructs of the same thing, and it's almost always a neurosis over perceived loss of patriarchal privilege. And it's a sexual thing too. You're right, I do see bigotries as connected primarily to a privileged position that comes under threat. Being gay, trans, black, or an assertive woman threatens that entire framework if those all end up being valid categories of people, which would then undermine the functions of capitalism overall

    I'm also American and see it through that lens. The basic chud impulse is a thought that goes like "i don't want people to think I'm gay, because I'll lose authority if people think I'm gay." That's one of their main preoccupations and it guides their various other bigotries.

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