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I am sure he is a vile and disgusting person for completely unrelated reasons but I hate how having a kink is made out to be some shameful and horrible defect that you can be "accused" of and have to keep secret.
Liberals love having permission to make fun of people for stuff like this that they normally can't get away with.
"Haha, he's a crossdresser! No of course I don't have a problem with crosdressers, but HE does, so Im just saying it to get under his skin! What? This contributes to violence against gender variant people? Stop being so sensitive! It's just a joke!"
I don't know, I think a big part of the 'own' is the hypocrisy of it. Every accusation an admission.
I don't know if liberals really are secretly waiting to dogpile someone for crossdressing.
Im mentally lumping it with the Putin/Trump kissing stuff because 'both Trump and Putin are homophobes' 'owns' that libs gleefully and uncritically trot out. If the own was that he's a hypocrite, they'd lead with that Person X accused of hypocrisy as photos of them doing Y emerge", not with the 'scandalous' kink
(Edit: others in this thread have also raised this point)
I admit that I haven't followed the story that closely but what I have seen in mainstream reporting has been less "look at that hypocrite" and more "celebrity caught having yucky and ridiculous kink".
Look in any thread on one of the popular lemmy instances that concerns Trump women and you will see tons of libs unleashing their internalized misogyny and body shaming bullshit
If you call them out on it they get so offended too. Like “how dare you imply I disrespect women? Me, the person who literally just posted about how one of the Trump ladies was so pretty before her “mar a lago face” and then went on a paragraph rant about her current appearance with the rhetoric of a schoolyard bully”
I think you are correct though that they won’t dogpile on cross dressing but merely because they conflate it with LGBT identities which makes them terrified to comment and potentially appear homophobic (misogyny is fine though, didn’t you see that South Park episode)
See also: the rhetoric of dem posters on reddit whenever a minority group votes for the GOP.
DAE notice that DRUMPF (silly foreign name) is FAT and GAY???
The original Drumpf dunk made sense because it was about Trump being mad a guy's granddad had changed his last name. But then libs ran with it
Sort of like how Trump apparently giving head to Bill Clinton became the main thing libs were latching onto for a while
would be the second ever cool thing he did if it happened, after the draft dodging
He was just stuck in a life he didn't plan for.
Source: it was me I sissified him and i'll do it again
Aside from the kink, Kristi Noem could be mad about the infidelity aspect. Messaging other women about sex could be a violation of a monogamous relationship. However, I would bet that Kristi Noem is more mad about the cross-dressing.
Infidelity can also cause someone to lose US Government security clearance. This is because people who are engaged with infidelity are vulnerable to being blackmailed.
The story was originally published by Daily Mail, which is typically very reactionary. I chose to link Them Magazine (LGBTQ magazine) to avoid problematic opinions in the article.
i doubt she's mad at the infidelity part as she had a quite public affair as far as i remember
yeah, hard to imagine her thinking that being treated the way she treats others is unacceptable
Trans Day of visibly being cuckolded by Corey Lewandowski
Sure but her PR person who spoke with NYPost might be using the infidelity angle.
It's because sex is shameful, religion said so. It's wild how deeply ingrained this bullshit is.