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    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.

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      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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        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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          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.

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            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.

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          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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                if you mean the concept of transness as a disease, it’s just from the pathologization of deviance from cisnormativity, one that’s perpetuated by the medical system. if we know gender to be a social construct (there is no biological basis for gender, and a very shaky biological basis for sex), and is enforced for the benefit of capitalism (it is in the interest of the bourgeoisie to enforce rigid gender roles and by extension the traditional nuclear family unit, it’s productive to generate more workers. the men go out and work, the women stay home with the family, and under the view of reactionary biological determinism, you aren’t allowed to change what you were assigned. i recommend the first few chapters of “sexuality and socialism” if you’re curious about this), then there’s nothing really inherently wrong with deviating from it and identifying as something outside the gender binary or identifying as something different than what you were assigned. but obviously the capitalist system, and by extension the medical system, enforces this social construct by pathologizing that deviance. but don’t let that convince you that transness is a disease or affliction. the truth is that it isn’t, its just a simple condition of being that comes about because the complexity of human expression does not always fit neatly into the constructed rigid binary. it’s just a descriptor for how we interface with the social structure of gender, not something we did wrong or is wrong with us. at least, this is my view on it.

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                  if you would be willing to expand on this part as I’m very curious to know more about how sex is of shaky biological basis, since I would’ve assumed that’s largely pretty straight forwards in humans aside from unusual cases

                  there is no biological basis for gender, and a very shaky biological basis for sex

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

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    “MOST TRIGGERING COMEDY”

    If chuds have to announce it’s a comedy, that’s already a sign it isn’t funny, but still entertaining for hateful pieces of shit that want to clap and performatively laugh out of agreement with the message.

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      Without the labels they actually can get mad at the joke created for them. It’s wild

      I tried sharing a recent headline from The Onion with a relative since was the closest thing to chud-tier they’ve posted in a while. He didn’t get the humor at all and thought it was being played straight. did-i-miss-a-page

      He then shared a Babylon bee article which was just a worse version that also punched down. abby-exasperation

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    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

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

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      Theybreally love giving themselves credit for upsetting people.

      It reminds me of the guy I knew in high-school who would shit his pants for attention. Nobody is impressed, people aren’t even really offended. Mostly they just have contempt for you.

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      This is a response I wish more people would ascribe to. It’s often enough to just call something what it is and move on with your life.

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    This looks like some shitty low budget comedy from the 2000’s. Makes sense with how that crowd thinks being funny involves repeating tropes from that time period and expecting people half their age to laugh.

    Is Crowder still doing his Chris Rock impression or did he finally learn that Kevin Hart exists?

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      This looks like some shitty low budget comedy from the 2000’s. Makes sense with how that crowd thinks being funny involves repeating tropes from that time period and expecting people half their age to laugh.

      Checks out; the “Million Dollar Extreme” edgelords didn’t get any younger.

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    written and directed by a guy who’s name is literally Jeremy Boreing, who used to work in Matt Walsh’s podcast, oh he’s the cofounder and owner of the daily wire

    i’m not looking forward to the next decade

    • 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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    Plot twist: it turns out they’re all actually trans and the second half is them coming to terms with that while getting out of the weird hole they just dug themselves. That would even be a pretty good comedy.

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      Not to make assumptions, I do wonder if any of them have some repression deal going on, I know Crowder seemed to get really in character when he did his cross dressing bits

    • Seriously, the Kavernacles video is full of bot accounts saying “I didn’t know about this until now, thanks!” Like the Daily Wire released a movie the most mainstream it has gone is on left wing reaction channels.

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    Recycling the same tired shit that South Park was doing ten years ago. It’s so fucking boring that some peope just want to hear the same jokes over and over and over again.