I read it as straightforwardly homophobic, it's not a top vs bottom as much as gay = bad, cowardly, weak, inauthentic while straight / "normal" = good, heroic, principled.
At first I read the title as "I'm sick of my teen son waking up early to make me a multiple course meal for breakfast" and I reflected on how bizarre your relationship with your son is.
Anyway, that's a lot of delicious food 😍
tl;dw the CEO that was killed was the CEO of United Health Care, a subsidiary of United Health Group the parent company (whose CEO is higher in the org chart, but was not killed).
they would need two conservative judges to flip, which is unlikely
I have been denied coverage for gender affirming care by my health insurance as well, due to discriminatory state government policies. Unfortunately it's not likely to be decided in our favor.
Meanwhile here is the U.S. I destroyed my ankle falling down a flight of stairs and I never had x-rays or any treatments and couldn't afford to lose hours at work (where I made $8 / hour), so I bought a cane at Walmart and went to work on my foot. I had a permanent bursa as a result and I never found out what happened.
Years later when I finally had access to healthcare through insurance partially subsidized by my employer, I was getting another x-ray on the same ankle (because one injury makes future injuries more likely) they found out that tendons had ripped bone off during the original injury. :-(
... In a follow-up line of questioning towards Strangio, Barrett admitted that she never knew about the long history of cross-dressing laws, indicating that she may be convinced by Strangio that de jure legal discrimination was indeed part of transgender legal history.
Cross-dressing laws have long been used to target the transgender community. The first such laws appeared in 1843, prohibiting individuals from “wearing the apparel of the other sex.” These laws became tools of enforcement during police raids in the 1960s, particularly around the time of the Stonewall riots. Responding to Justice Barrett’s questioning on social media, the ACLU’s Gillian Branstetter highlighted a 1964 case challenging a cross-dressing law, quoting a newspaper report on the defense: "The defense submitted by the ACLU contends that it is unconstitutional to arrest as a vagrant a transvestite who has done nothing more than wear the clothing of the opposite sex."
Collectively, [Barrett's] discussion could make her a potential swing vote in the case.
It is also important to note that Justice Barrett has recently sided with liberals in choosing not to hear major cases on LGBTQ+ rights. Justice Barrett refused to reinstate Florida’s drag ban in November of 2023. She also refused to hear an appeal on Washington’s conversion therapy ban, allowing it to stand and joining Roberts and Gorsuch along with the liberals in that decision.
The outcome of this case carries immense weight for transgender rights, with many legal experts predicting the Court may lean towards upholding the Tennessee ban. However, it’s worth remembering that this same Court delivered the landmark Bostock decision, which protected transgender people from workplace discrimination using similar legal principles. As the nation awaits the ruling, likely to come early this summer, transgender people and their allies hold onto hope that at least two conservative justices will recognize the gravity of the case and join in affirming the fundamental rights of one of the country’s most vulnerable communities.
See also Chase Strangio's op-ed in the NYT: https://archive.ph/1K3st
This is so inspiring, I might have to make sushi now 😍
there's a bi joke in here somewhere, I swear
oh interesting, tahini has such a strong flavor for me - you're lucky it's not strong tasting for you!! Thanks for the inspiration, I might try making some tahina sometime 😋
Delicious dipped in gravy and served with cranberry relish or something tart to offset the richness.
Insides have: roast, stuffing, mashed potatoes.
I mixed water into vital wheat gluten and nutritional yeast with some spices to make a "quick" seitan. JoYo suggested pinching off pieces and frying it, but I wasn't sure how that would work or how big the pieces should be, now I realize maybe like bacon-bit sized or slightly larger?
Instead I flattened the whole dough and then fried it, making something akin to schnitzel. The problem then was that the center was uncooked while the outside was thoroughly cooked from frying. I put it in an oven at 300F for 30 minutes and it didn't seem cooked, so I put it in 350F for another 30 minutes and left it in there, and it was probably done at that point but leaving it in the warm oven it dehydrated.
So then I put it in a broth and boiled it so it would be juicy.
The texture was like I expected, seitan that hasn't been properly kneaded and pulled into long fibrous strands and allowed to sit overnight to fully develop the gluten tends to be spongey, and that's exactly how it was. The flavor wasn't too bad, and I didn't mind the texture either. I'll keep working on it, next time I'll try pinching small pieces and frying as originally instructed. 😊
Thanks JoYo for the inspiration!
Bonus picture before the meat and lettuce went on:
Ingredients:
For chkn I shredded and baked some oyster mushrooms and baked some home-made seitan in a convection oven until it was poofy and crispy, which added a lot of flavor to the seitan (which I normally don't love because it has that distinct flavor that is hard to mask).
The meme uses the "man checking oven" meme to mark Trump supporters as stereotypically "gay" and contrasts this with a picture of the assassin in which there are no stereotypical signs of sexuality, which of course implies straightness in our heteronormative society.
Sure it is entirely possible the assassin could be gay IRL by coincidence, but this isn't a helpful for understanding or interpreting the meme, since contrast between gay and straight is clearly created and this contrast is used to make a normative claim, i.e. Trump supporters are gay (i.e. bad) for being hypocritical, while the CEO killer is based by living up to the Punisher anti-hero vigilante ethos and thus not gay (i.e. straight, normal, good).
Maybe the meme uses homophobia because it will upset homophobic Trump supporters more, since they don't want to be associated with being "gay". Still, it appeals to and uses homophobic logic by associating the marked-as-gay traits with something villainous and the "unmarked" (which is the heteronormative default of "normal" straightness) with a hero.