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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

probably also gay porn too, since thier skinhead/nazi categories

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 points 2 minutes ago

Yeah, these types are more obsessed with trans porn than actual chasers for some reason.

[–] diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Is this the racism heatmap?

[–] Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

It's just research!

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 39 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I don't give a damn what kind of porn people watch. I do care that this colors their perspective on how trans people actually live. Most of us aren't sex workers. And most of us that are don't do it by choice. We're just people trying to live our lives. This kind of thinking is incredibly dangerous, as it leads to believing that someone just being themselves in public is an act of sexual exhibitionism. I didn't transition as a sex thing. My life is not a costume. I transitioned and have lived my entire adult life as myself, worked my entire career and built my entire life around my transitioned name and gender. Rather than a 24/7 drag act, most days I'm wearing jeans and hoodie.

We're just trying to live our lives in peace. But a bunch of perverts are using their porn habits to inform their moral judgments about an entire class of people.

[–] DigitalAudio@sopuli.xyz 13 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

This ties into a bigger issue where almost nothing related to sexuality can ever be healthy or normal to many conservatives.

Sex to these conservatives is inherently deviant and filthy. Making conscious life decisions related to sexuality or sexual identity will never be just a life decision. It will be equivalent to actively engaging in sexual acts.

Being trans to them is actively paedophilic because it exposes children to the concept of sexuality and gender. Sex ed will be paedophilic to them because it does the same. Each person's actions are not the sole thing that defines them, but also their position in society as dictated by "what it has always been". Men have always led households by marrying women and having kids, therefore men that don't are a threat.

Conservatism is quite black or white when it comes to things like identity or introspection. It is an ideology that very frequently wages war on self questioning and exploration in exchange for compliance and conformism. It's why many conservatives hate universities, scientists and partially why they hate immigrants. The entire ideology grows by appealing to people who do not want to be intellectually challenged. It's especially attractive to those that don't want to understand other ways of thinking.

Conservatism as an ideology always exploits the greatest potential weakness of the left wing: naivety, and presents itself as the "responsible" or "reasonable" solution to a reckless and harmful left wing. They frame things like empathy and humanitarianism as weaknesses rather than virtues.

It's why most of the conservative rhetoric revolves around "being taken advantage of" or "being scammed by" this or that group. They love stories about immigrants exploiting the system, cheating or stealing because it proves their worldview that what's foreign and unknown is out to get them. It is an ideology driven by fear.

And the biggest problem is that, unlike progressivism (which also has its ideological vices and weaknesses), conservatism never seeks to help the weak or empower the vulnerable. Instead it seeks to maintain the hierarchy and keep people in their place. In the US that translates to keeping immigrants weak, keeping black people down, keeping women in the kitchen, keeping white men ahead, keeping the US as an imperial power, and keeping its allies subservient.

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world -5 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

What? What the hell does transporn have to do with, 1. Your personal identity and 2. How everyone else perceives trans people? Porn is fantasy not real life.

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Project 2025 literally has as one of its planks the idea that simply living life as a trans person is a pornographic act. This belief comes from men who see being trans and being pornographic as one and the same. Where do you think that belief comes from?

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Not from transporn. That's for sure. These assholes watching transporn is a symptom of what makes people believe in maga, nationalism and project 2025 in the first place. The porn comes after the indoctrination.

Hold on... Hold on. I know. But think about it. If you're some bloke pulling your pud to transporn and liking it you're not going to all of the sudden become a conservative.

But if you're a maga asshole conservative and you're being bombarded by anti trans bullshit and go on the internet, you know... Just to take a look to see what the fuss is all about... Then all of the sudden dang that's hot where's the jergens.

🤷

[–] BaraCoded@literature.cafe 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Man, you can't just ignore how porn molds the way people see others and what they expect of them, be it men, women or trans people

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I mean ya... But this can be said about anything at all. How about the 24 hour news cycle... Just constant news all the time screaming in your face. Or flat Earth videos on YouTube... Millions of people believe the earth is flat. Or maga propaganda permeating literally everything nowadays.

We're humans and can be easily influenced.

Furthermore I don't see a mechanism that would support what's being said under the original comment here that would be present in porn to support what you're saying in context.

[–] BaraCoded@literature.cafe 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

... How can you both understand and not understand at the same time? Are you american?

To sum it up, minorities suffer from the gaze that is cast upon them, especially if this gaze is exploitative, degrading, objectifying and made by and for the pleasure of the oppressor, thus reinforcing the oppressor's bias against the minority.

If trans porn is the only way these men are confronted to the existence of trans people, they'd oversexualize the idea of trans, which in turn leads them to blame/despise the trans even more (because of both their conservative views and unhealthy relationship with sex), not even leaving trans people the space to be something else in their eyes than objects to jerk off to (aka "people").

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] MunkyNutts@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

little frankie armistein is topself

[–] kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Also explains why all the porn of us calls us slurs. I hate it.

(Seriously, it's so hard finding trans porn that feels like it's for trans people instead of for people that want to dehumanize us)

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 15 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

Honestly, I think it goes deeper than that, I think that many guys that go for trans porn actually are very into it, probably because it's such a "taboo" subject for them.

It's similar to whenever there is a Republican or conservative convention somewhere, immediately it becomes a Grindr hotspot.

There are boat loads of gay / trans people in those extremist communities, because of course there are, and while publicly they will bash anything LGBT, privately they get off on it

See also that mega extremist church pastor that would constantly bash the gays and then got caught snorting coke from a gay prostitute

Edit:to add to this: I think that most trans porn made is not primarily made for trans people, but for men. Similarly to how most gangbang porn also isn't for girls, it's for men. Sure, trans people and girls can watch it, enjoy it, everyone is free to do whatever as long as they don't hurt anyone or thing, as far as I am concerned, but the main audience is just plain men.

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 5 points 9 hours ago

I know a guy who's a sex worker and he has had quite a few clients who are actively homophobic. When he told me this, I made a comment based on the assumption that these guys were closeted gays with internalised homophobia and he said "no, I think it's something deeper than that"

His theory was that it's basically a convoluted humiliation kink, where they are genuinely grossed out by the idea of having sex with a man, but they do it anyway because of the tabooness of it

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

I suppose there"s different kinds of extreme-right and evolutions.
All awful of course.
In Europe they misappropriate LGBT to make a point about Islam and their intollerance to it.
Same for women's rights.
I do not particularly think they care for any of those.
Obviously everywhere they stopped being antisemitic to support their fascist zionist partners.

[–] Mohamed@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Just thought of an alternative theory. Republican states may be more obsessed with trans porn, but maybe its not the anti-trans or Republicans in those states that are obsessed. Maybe the reason why so many are antitrans in those states is the prevalence of trans porn in their communities.

Repressed Republican is an attractive explanation, and probably true for a significant portion, but I doubt it's the full truth.

[–] matlag@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 hours ago

That would just be a new occurrence of a known pattern: most hateful are mostly repressing themselves and infuriated by people who aren't.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/homophobes-might-be-hidden-homosexuals/

"trans porn in their communities"?

Like, is the model here that people are hanging it from light poles? Generally people have their little fireman time at home, behind closed doors. How the fuck would you know?

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 29 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Its also like they all hate undocumented immigrants but only hire them for work.

[–] Ravell@lemmy.ml 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (6 children)

My dad used to removed about immigrants taking jobs, but would swing by Home Depot to grab some Mexicans whenever he needed extra hands on a construction project. Conservatives are just hypocritical morons.

EDIT: Wow, this place bans the no-no synonym for the word "complains"? What in the seven nanny hells is that.

[–] Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Find a better server.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

Is that a lemmy.ml filter?

[–] Noja@sopuli.xyz 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

rant ? edit: ooh it's probably.. bitch, what a stupid word filter

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[–] DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago

MADtv - Pervert Senator

https://youtu.be/_CsGfuZh9wI?t=122

("Naked Boy Parade")

[–] vane@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 43 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah, that's so unbelievably not fucking surprising. A weird amount of harassment I've gotten for being trans has been kinda (or occasionally extremely) sexual. Also the redder the area the more I get street harassment.

ETA: Oh upon reading the article, the city I'm thinking of (Lexington, KY, I basically couldn't take a walk without being catcalled there) is in the top 10 cities.

And yeah, anti trans bigotry is interesting because it seems to be an alliance of exterminationist bigotry ("x people should not exist or should be hidden and we should work towards that goal", examples of targeted groups include disabled people, Jewish people, and gay people) and supremacist bigotry ("x people are our lessers and must be forced into their place beneath us", anti black racism is the classic example). You have plenty of transphobes who just want us gone no matter what, but you also have quite a few who think our place is as discreet sex workers and are mad that we are insisting we deserve to live in society as equals and do whatever work we want. They were fine with us as prostitutes, but not as mechanics, as shameful side pieces but how dare we say we deserve to be spouses.

That perspective of us is deeply entwined in the insistence that anything pertaining to us is sexual. They look at us and reduce us solely to the lens of sex then condemn us for it. Then when some of us internalize that our only value as people is as sex objects they point and say "see look, we told you".

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[–] Xerxos@lemmy.ml 4 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

That lines up with my theory that a lot of Republicans are repressed homosexuals. Trans porn is probably the most 'homosexual adjacent' porn they are brave enough to watch.

[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I dislike this, as it asserts that it's gay for a man to be attracted to a trans woman. And fellas....it's not gay to wanna fuck a woman.

Rather the chuds are treating trans women the same way they treat cis women: as sex objects to be exploited, not human as beings deserving of rights.

While they might openly refer to trans women as "men in dresses", they still fundamentally and unconsciously treat them not unlike any other women. Just as deviant women, less deserving of rights.

Source: Am transgender. I am treated like a woman, I experience misogyny like one.

But when someone hostile (or sometimes even the occasional well meaning but ignorant liberal), finds out I'm trans, they notably don't treat me like a man, or even a deviant man. They still treat me like all of the above, but worse, and more objectifying, with added transphobia.

[–] Xerxos@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I'm sorry, I didn't want to label trans women as anything other than women.

I just try to make sense of the Republican mindset. Please believe me when I say that I don't share it.

[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 hours ago

All good! Just wanted to clarify where I feel it comes from

[–] JTskulk@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago

Not only repressed homosexuals, but they view ALL sex stuff as a choice. It's beyond their comprehension that people can't help what they're sexually attracted to. They have gay thoughts, suppress them, and then conclude that all other gay people are the same as them but with less self-control and therefor evil people.

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[–] Garbagio@lemmy.zip 0 points 8 hours ago

Shout out to Minneapolis, MN for being so trans accepting that they have a large enough community that they can make the list the right way

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