With all due respect, Kate, trans people are not a distraction from "real issues". Conservatives are literally screaming at you that they want to retrench the heterosexual regime, eradicate queerness in the public sphere, and confine women to domesticity. Perhaps that is, in fact, their agenda. - ThreadSky

taliabhatt.itch.io • 62 days ago

With all due respect, Kate, trans people are not a distraction from "real issues".

Conservatives are literally screaming at you that they want to retrench the heterosexual regime, eradicate queerness in the public sphere, and confine women to domesticity.

Perhaps that is, in fact, their agenda.

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mvthomster.bsky.social•62 days ago

I agree — trans folks stand AT the battle line.

kayla-denker.blog•62 days ago

You're back! Yay!!

pennywebster.bsky.social•62 days ago

Also, reactionaries benefit socially, personally and financially from the gender hierarchy! Saying trans issues are a distraction from their plans for personal enrichment is like saying union busting is a distraction from their plans for personal enrichment

pennywebster.bsky.social•62 days ago

"Don't pay any attention to that guy's gun! It's a distraction from his plan to hold up this bank!"

lolaepp.bsky.social•62 days ago

I'm down with a "shell game" metaphor RE: Tr*mp priorities to tank the economy to benefit oligarchs, foment hatred of queer and especially trans people, and brutally persecute immigrants and anyone not white, if it is explicit that ALL THREE SHELLS CONTAIN EQUAL AMOUNTS OF EVIL

werechicken.bsky.social•62 days ago

You’re forgetting how the shell game works tho:
The ball is in the dealers hand the entire time.

So there’s always the real objective that has these others manifest to extend its reach.

Hurting trans people is not a distraction. You can’t afford to let trans rights dangle for some far off goal.

lolaepp.bsky.social•62 days ago

Did I ever know how the shell game worked? I guess I only know it's an unwinnable scam. I guess I'm not smart enough for this metaphor but yeah my point is absolutely that I would never and have never described attacks on trans rights as a "distraction from real issues" or whatever

lolaepp.bsky.social•62 days ago

It is about keeping us exhausted and confused about where to look. But no one issue is the "real" one, they are all real and important!!

scriptor.bsky.social•62 days ago

so many people with the mindset that of "affecting me = real issues. affecting others = distractions"

kathuryne.bsky.social•62 days ago

Both are true they did the same thing with gay marriage to distract you when you oil companies got caught red hand war profiting and gouging prices

ladyaranea.bsky.social•62 days ago

It's not a distraction. It's an additional objective.

andria-girl.bsky.social•62 days ago

yep. you said it so succinctly.

just as the bourgeois subjugate the proletariat and eliminate the communists, the patriarchs subjugate the women and eliminate the trans people. they do seek to divide all of us, but make no mistake, the oppression of trans people is a core facet of their control

crs1.bsky.social•62 days ago

Beyond everything else that’s absolutely not how tariffs work and this problem is so bad i feel reporters ought to seppuku

onwinedarkseas.bsky.social•62 days ago

Sometimes the writing on the wall isn't some cryptographic puzzle to be solved. These mfs aren't that clever and they don't have to be because they have institutional support for their agenda...

taliabhatt.itch.io•62 days ago

@moiradonegan.bsky.social has stated that political commentators seem absolutely allergic to an analysis of patriarchal grievances and anti-feminism as core to understanding modern conservative politics. On this, as on many other things, she is absolutely correct.

This is core, not a sideshow.

taliabhatt.itch.io•62 days ago

Enshrining male-supremacy is the bedrock of modern reactionary conservatism. Their misogyny and transphobia is central to their political project.

Reckon with that, please.

arcani.bsky.social•62 days ago

I fear that viewing it as THE bedrock may make a bit of the same mistake in reverse; the class, racial, and sex heirarchies are all central, and preserving each is a real and important goal.

nathrach.bsky.social•62 days ago

So long as there is a list of humans who are not people enough to count, they can dream of adding more.

Don't help the list continue to exist

thegodofcities.bsky.social•62 days ago

That sure was a lot
of oxygen to say
#The4thReichExists.

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