Well what did you expect you dingdongs.
this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2024
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"Trad wives" outraged at being treated like traditional wives.
"I thought we'd have a Martha" sobs woman who watched The Handmaids Tale and took entirely the wrong message from it.
"But... But I was supposed to be the one at the fancy baby shower while not being pregnant myself!"'she persisted.
"I didn't care until it happened to me... TO ME!!"
(sobs, uses kleenex to dab dry eyes)
(Jerry Springer lowers his head and the microphone, waits in respectful silence for republican wife to regain her composure)
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Just give them all the gross, sweaty, smelly sex they think they’re owed for talking to you. That’s how they see it, and they certainly aren’t going to change. If anything, they’ll get worse.
Or maybe rethink who you’re in bed with.
That was a pretty old headline, nowadays the Alt-Right women are all about the trad-wife fetish
They support it performatively because it gives them clout, and often are dumb enough to follow along. Most of them hate it once they experience it for long enough, though. Look at Lauren Southern suddenly denouncing her "trad partner" having been abusive for years even while she was promoting it.
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I’m generally a proponent of equal treatment, but when some alt-right hate monger whines about not getting it, I have zero sympathy.
It's like when you tell someone not to burn their hand by touching a hot stove but they do it anyway.
Like, yes, I STILL support you not touching the stove, but I don't feel sorry for you.
But... I never thought the leopards would eat MY face!
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Would've been better without the colors
Same.
i think the colors are meant to be the regions of the "political compass", meaning all those political regions laugh about it.
I know, and I'm saying the meme would be better without it. The political compass colors add nothing to it
It was probably made for PCM
What publication is this from
Oh this is from 7 years ago lol I saw this post and thought “didn’t we already kind of establish this in the media a while back?”
Not sure, but Laura Southern had a moment like this and documented it for the world to read.
That article tried to "both sides" so hard it made my brain hurt.
"I was a liberal, now I'm a conservative; she's a fascist and she's still a fascist but she's upset that fascists are being fascist towards HER - do we have anything in common?"
Spoiler: yes.
That was a really interesting read with a lot more expansion and nuance than I expected at first, thanks!
For those reading it’s a lot more thorough than simply “right wing men beat women” or something. Worth checking out
It's a challenge.
Southern is still a complex (and, for me, thoroughly unlikable) person with odious views, but it's an interesting journey if for no other reason than you can see just how powerful a force tribalism is in human psychology; how it lets people get right up to the point of dealing with the incongruity of their tribe versus their safety/well-being/reality.
The other place I saw this is in watching the flat-Earther documentary Behind the Curve: there's moments in it when you can see people get within a hair's breath of rationalization, but get held back not by stupidity, or ignorance, but tribalism.
We make a big mistake in thinking that the reason people are the way they are because of ignorance or stupidity. That's not it; they are the way they are because human tribalism has millions of years of success behind it. Up until, oh, the last hundred years or so, ostracism meant real death, so our monkey brains, though millions of years of selection, developed group cohesion and social strategies to help us stay within our in-group. Unfortunately, in the last century or so, that tribal instinct is proving maladaptive.
It's a little like how we're evolved to process sugar, which has hundreds of millions of positive evolutionary enforcement, only to fail at the outside-context problem that is McDonalds & Coca Cola.
I’m actually very much of the same mindset as you. For instance, I often frame QAnon folks, particularly those who are not on YouTube profiting, as victims. Something is wrong in their life and a bad person sold them incorrect solution, but a solution all the same.
A problem for the people in politics and on social media who are profiting off it without believing in it is that, eventually, either Hamlet syndrome kicks in and you start believing it, or the fascist followers you've been yoking get out of control and you need to start doing actual Nazi stuff to save your own skin.
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womp womp
Probably a reference toCorey Lewandowski's infamous interview where he showed exactly how much empathy is inherent in MAGA..
Hmmm... I don't hear a P enunciated there. It's gotta be my thing.