Gay marriage didn’t just magically become more popular. Many right-wing institutions stopped fighting against it because they felt uncomfortably like redneck bigots when they did, so public opposition collapsed. It wasn’t the public magically following the arrow of progress - ThreadSky

whstancil.bsky.social • 1 day ago

Gay marriage didn’t just magically become more popular. Many right-wing institutions stopped fighting against it because they felt uncomfortably like redneck bigots when they did, so public opposition collapsed. It wasn’t the public magically following the arrow of progress

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fyodor.bsky.social•1 day ago

Major media institutions documented the organized anti trans campaigns by Rufo at all and now everyone pretends like it's just people's natural inclinations.

jarekfa.bsky.social•1 day ago

They didn't just document it, they advanced it as foot soldiers. Fuckin getting a push notice on this Mike Powell article which could only cite a 10 year old blog post to support its thesis outside of discrete medical clinician contexts where such broader language becomes necessary.

jarekfa.bsky.social•1 day ago

Like what is the point of this article other than trans people exist. Certain doctors need to use certain terms to make sure they are literally able to get such persons the medical treatment they require. It's not national news. Its whole point is to ostracize trans people further. Hate him so much.

jarekfa.bsky.social•1 day ago

What I really hate is how they abandoned all their journalistic principles in service of this witch hunt. The premise underlying their entire campaign is that there's something inherently wrong with trans. It's bad to be one. They force us to change. They burden us. They're coming for your kids.

djparticle.com•1 day ago

I never understood the term “chestfeeding”. I mean, regardless of gender, that part of the body is still a breast. 🤷🏻‍♀️

djparticle.com•1 day ago

In addition, there are also rare instances of cis men breastfeeding, so changing that term just seems unnecessary.

dpkilbride.bsky.social•1 day ago

This isn’t about defending trans people. Men who transition to women just should not be able to compete in women’s sports. There’s a reason why women athletes agree on this! There’s a way to defend trans equality without giving conservatives this easy win.

spencerwindes.bsky.social•1 day ago

Unfortunately, the gay marriage consensus is now falling apart due to a radicalized fascist GOP.

ponsterm.bsky.social•1 day ago

But gay marriage didn't become more popular because of Democratic leadership. It became more popular because of television and because lots of Americans know lots of gay people.

jjinandtonic.bsky.social•1 day ago

The arc of history doesnt just bend towards justice, it is bent towards it

whstancil.bsky.social•1 day ago

Right-wing activists felt the consensus shifting against them, they knew the consensus was that their views were bigoted, which is why they fought tooth and nail to control media forums that have cultural influence. And Dems and liberals just… didn’t fight back, really. They basically didn’t respond

houska.bsky.social•1 day ago

And still the end result is that everyone thinks Democrats were constantly talking about trans issues! They might as well have actually done so!

thebsnod.bsky.social•1 day ago

This kills me. Living in MAGAland, I've heard so many people say they don't care how others identify, they just don't want it "shoved down their throats." When I say that that only happens from the anti-trans side, they either shrug and change the subject or move the goalposts. It's infuriating.

wyrmwithwhy.bsky.social•10 hours ago

I don't think the "not fighting back" part is accurate. For the past decade, content platforms and publishers have been incredibly resistant to removing right-wrong ideological propaganda.

wyrmwithwhy.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Then algorithmically served content became the norm, the demands for moderation died down because people realized these companies were never going to give us insight into their algorithms, and conservatives successfully jammed the conversation by saying they were being censored. We've given up NOW.

bluebird4.bsky.social•1 day ago

People started coming out, and everyone else discovered that a significant number of their close relatives and friends were LGBT.

michaelander45.bsky.social•1 day ago

Publlic opposition that I must unfortunately note has started to un-collapse of late 😬

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