If somebody does not identify with the gender they were assigned at birth? That's just the way some people are. What possibly harm does it do to anybody else? And how could it possibly harm or offend you if some people like to entertain in the persona of a person of a different gender than they usually present, and other people are entertained by them? (Maybe you should check out Dame Edna.)
What we're talking about here is the ridiculous ginning up of a moral panic by Republican politicians who have lost the country on abortion and same sex marriage. They don't actually want to offer any policy solutions to the economic distress many people are feeling, because what they are actually all about is making sure rich people don't have to pay taxes or put up with public health and safety regulations. So they invent this stupid crap. This is from Media Matters:
Fox News has joined the rest of right-wing media in a full-fledged freakout over trans TikTok influencer Dylan Mulvaney making a promotional video for Bud Light. This nearly two-week obsession largely overlaps with potential new federal restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone, a story which Fox News has seemingly been eager to sideline in favor of more Bud Light panic.
From April 7 to April 13, Fox covered the ridiculous Bud Light story for 1 hour and 42 minutes, compared to 43 minutes for the far more consequential ruling about mifepristone. And that timeframe excludes several of Fox's heaviest days covering the Bud Light story, which has been a fixture on the network since April 3.
Yup, this is a major story for two weeks,that a trans-gender guy made a Bud Light commercial. Please folks, get your heads out of the sand.
2 comments:
Thanks for simplifying what is going on. Just as with the abortion red herring, all the Repugnantcans can do (as you say) is gin up panic about nonexistent issues to distract people from the fact that the officials they keep helping to elect are fleecing them.
How awful, tragic and pathetic.
@Cervantes
In several of your posts you seem frustrated that you don't understand half of the population. All you have to do is ask 'em. They do have their reasons. Screaming racism, bigotry or some other epithet when you, yourself, don't have clue isn't helpful.
I may not agree with some of my friends on both sides, but I inquire and truly try to understand their point of view. Only by trying to understand others will it bring us closer together. Not trying will further polarize us.
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