This has been observed before, but this cover really is a skeleton key for understanding the ensuing seven years - ThreadSky

asherelbein.bsky.social • 1 day ago

This has been observed before, but this cover really is a skeleton key for understanding the ensuing seven years

Reposted from sarah jeong

thinking again about this 2018 cover

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saulelbein.bsky.social•1 day ago

The rhetorical significance of that septum piercing!

asherelbein.bsky.social•1 day ago

The blue light on the hair is also, frankly, a nasty piece of work

saulelbein.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yeah, that’s the other thing.

Although I still can’t make
my brain break the association of “blue hairs” = Texas grandmas

themanfromrio.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's like all the terribleness of the last decade in one issue

asherelbein.bsky.social•1 day ago

Covid denialism (then and now) and anti-trans hysteria have progressed in identical fashions: relentless, bad-faith "question asking" and whining about the need for dissent, aimed specifically at resentful elites and actively contemptuous of observable facts. Abstraction over actual reality, always

wendykloiber.bsky.social•1 day ago

Heavy duty “Other people’s health decisions infringe on my superior right to live in a world where the reason for their health decision does not exist” overlap.

kenlowery.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's definitely of a piece. With COVID denialism I saw so much kneejerk "you can't tell me what to do" stuff from ostensible adults, and a lot of that was pushback against having to think about how their actions impacted others. Absolutely the same arena as getting het up about pronouns

josie.zone•1 day ago

My spouse has a theory that COVID scared people about health, but they had to sublimate the enormity of the actual health crisis and they glommed onto the existing anti-trans backlash as the health crisis they COULD tackle

kenlowery.bsky.social•1 day ago

that's true, a healthcare-focused example of how the world is quite literally changing around them in ways they were not consulted about

josie.zone•1 day ago

Add on the religious/woo-woo craze for controlling/raping your children, and baby, you've got yourself a stew

asherelbein.bsky.social•1 day ago

Could be!

jaykaydee.bsky.social•1 day ago

The puff piece on a sexual predator is a nice cherry on top to the whole dynamic.

asherelbein.bsky.social•1 day ago

Isn't it, though

jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social•1 day ago

also the other tiny headline of "being Black in America can take years off your life"

like hey here's two actual public health issues we should care about but OH NO THE TRANSES gets the focus, and also here's a sex pest we love

if this were fiction this would be overly heavy-handed etc etc

jaykaydee.bsky.social•1 day ago

Truly

timprice.bsky.social•1 day ago

The Surprising Wisdom of Russell Brand

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