My theory is that the reason a lot of cis people seem to uniformly love McBride's response to all this is because a bunch of them subconsciously agree with the attacks/think trans people in bathrooms is icky
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they like it because now they don't have to do anything. a trans person gave them explicit permission to shrug it off
(I am trans, people often miss that in my bio)
I think "choosing the response that gets normie libs to be the most in your corner" sometimes really might look like "choosing the response that bothers normie libs the least."
I see why it can be disappointing, but also it feels like a pragmatic political choice that has tradeoffs.
Catering to big majority groups will always be part of politics, I reckon. Easy for me if I'm in that group. Hard for everyone that isn't. A tired, shitty, excruciatingly unfair dynamic. But not one that's specific to Sarah Mcbride, either.
However, I do think that cis people (e.g. me) should not be engaged in criticizing the first trans member of congress for "being a trans politician wrong."
I imagine (and hope, honestly) that we won't hear a lot of cis people level criticism like that.
I'm cis. I get your point. Kind of agree. Kind of think following in the spirit of Obama might not be a bad move. She won't change the hard core bigot. But she might sway those on the fence.
I've been in a wheelchair since I was 10 years old. I'm a minority too. I'm underrepresented too. Get over yourself. You're no more special than anybody else. Well meeting opinions can change the world for your better, for my better.
I agree with that, and I also think a lot of cis people are chickenshits who like her response because it allows them to bury their head in the sand and not worry about it. It's a "get out of the fight free" card.
I don’t think it’s my place to criticize McBride’s response. She’s the one being bullied and targeted with hate. She needs to respond in a way that prioritizes her safety.
It IS though my place to criticize every Dem who isn’t speaking out emphatically against this transphobia. /1
I am livid that they are either ignoring the situation or dismissing it as a distraction. It absolutely isn’t a distraction. Enacting transphobic legislation absolutely is a GOP priority. McBride’s cis colleagues have privilege that she doesn’t have. They should f’ing use it.
I also think they see any type of conflict with minorities as an inconvenience. So, of course, they'd rather we just take it and not make a big fuss about it.
I think it's a pretty good response simply because it keeps being proven time and time again that anything along the lines of "I deserve the right to exist." is not a persuasive statement to the scum we're being forced to share this planet with.
As a cis person, I support her decision because it's what she chose to do. Had she chose to do something else reasonable, I would have supported that, too.
This CIS dude HATES it. I don't hate it from her side. She got backed into a corner. I hate it from the dem side. They had the chance to go to bat for one of their own and they didn't. Cowardly bullshit. It's no wonder we can't win shit anymore. All we stand for is backing away quietly and sulking.
Anyone who's like, "erm, well, McBride wouldn't be in that position unless she had great political instincts" should remember that she was basically the DNC's handpicked choice to be the Dem nominee for that seat. She's just another focus group-obsessed, consultant-paying Dem.
The consultant-Dems see any sort of strong response to attacks from R's as feeding the fire, and giving more time to the R's. This ignores the fact that they get this time anyway and the strong response at least gets some air time in response and makes D's feel like someone is supporting them.
Oh, hey, it's the guy who's made a 20-year career out of fluffing the Democrats, who pushed Blue Dogs in 2006 against a GOP polling at 25% and who all lost their seats in 2010, and Hashtag Resisted by sending Nancy Pelosi flowers, happily throwing trans people under the bus to defend the Democrats!
The person performing the response is rarely the one who planned the performance.
We, trans people, didn’t choose this strategy. The Democratic party has intentionally distanced themselves from trans people and drag queens since at least 2014.
Hey I know a lot of people are giving you shit for the dumb mistake you made, but I want to thank you for recognizing the dumb mistake you made and owning up to it. I don't see that often.
How the fuck do you manage to be a political blogger for 20 fucking years BEFORE Republicans turned trans people into cannon fodder for their culture war & not know who Parker Molloy is?!
It is interesting that trans folks are having mixed reactions to McBride’s stance on her current situation whereas non trans folks are uniformly positive towards her response. I can only guess that she hesitates expending too much political capital so soon. I completely support her in any case.
Pretty sure politicians get all kinds of perks the average person doesn’t that makes that line of thought mostly (if not entirely) irrelevant. Same shit with money. Plenty of rich bigots from any & every demographic you can think that insist bigotry isn’t a problem that should be fought, while
You have fun making excuses for why Dems should just roll over and let fascists strip rights and freedoms from any/every marginalized group they want to though. I’ll just stay here with all the decent human beings who understand that’s bad.
It's not just an attack on McBride herself. Is that not painfully obvious? I don't see how you can ask a question like this without even acknowledging that. Like come on
boy howdy does it feel like she's pulling the ladder up behind her. "surely i can find common ground with the leopards eating faces party, even if we don't agree on everything. i bet they'll like me if i give them some other people to eat first"
Her book was blurbed by Kamala Harris and the foreword was "written by" Joe Biden. She's as insider as it gets. She's not some political supergenius. She's just a replacement level Dem hack there to advance the corporate interests of the tax haven disguised as a state that is Delaware.
Right. I'm one of them. Sarah McBride is a genuinely good human being and public servant who has worked hard for Delaware for years. Not sure why she and Delaware are being snidely denigrated.
it tracks that he ended up like this after kicking out everyone to the left of Hillary Clinton on his website in 2016. people really don't change sometimes
I don't think it helps your argument to keep demeaning the state of Delaware. People are born there with no choice and that alone should be enough for you to stop attacking the state as an entity.
I did not know the person to whom I was speaking was trans or not. Still, Rep. Elect McBride is certainly taking more heat than other trans individuals. She is the one who was elected and is in the national public eye.
And she should have demanded to be onstage at the DNC but she didn't make a peep during the convention. I know this for a fact because I heard it from insiders at the convention who were pissed about this.
I think you might be underestimating the cis liberal's desire to 1) support people on "their team" against criticism they deem unfair, and 2) respect the individual choices of a marginalized person in a tricky position.
Or maybe you're just more comfortable criticizing a trans person than they are!
"average" liberal, I think, has a pretty individualistic understanding of how to navigate situations like this, and are sort of framing her choices through an individualistic lens, or like "hey, what would *I myself* do in this situation, I dunno, seems hard."
The other big possibility here, I think, is that Mcbride knows that this is the move that *bothers normie liberals the least."
dunno if that equates to "the move that gets normie cis liberals the most on her side" or not, but clearly her move *has* in fact played super well with normie libs.
I agree and disagree. To MAGA it’s merely a trojan horse to create a scapegoat. BUT, the supposed terror of a “penis in the Ladies’ Room” is entirely mitigated by the fact that the Ls’ R doesn’t have urinals in it.
A supermajority of americans are susceptible to propaganda. If you've never heard about a trans person being harassed in or around a bathroom, you don't know any trans people who trust you enough to tell you about it.
That and I think a lot of them still believe in "When they go low, we go high." You saw the same thing with the whole "death panel" thing with Obamacare. Democrats think they dignify arguments when they respond to them.
They love it? Ugh. I have been avoiding finding out. Cis people agreeing with McBride probably feel for Nancy Mace. Have people considered not just not being the worst? Just for a minute. I am so tired.
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(I am trans, people often miss that in my bio)
I see why it can be disappointing, but also it feels like a pragmatic political choice that has tradeoffs.
:(
However, I do think that cis people (e.g. me) should not be engaged in criticizing the first trans member of congress for "being a trans politician wrong."
I imagine (and hope, honestly) that we won't hear a lot of cis people level criticism like that.
It IS though my place to criticize every Dem who isn’t speaking out emphatically against this transphobia. /1
Ms McBride isn't wrong about it being a distraction.
It did the job of taking eyes off of the appointees last week, at least to some degree.
Who am I to second guess her?
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Brother in christ
We, trans people, didn’t choose this strategy. The Democratic party has intentionally distanced themselves from trans people and drag queens since at least 2014.
Try again in January.
https://bsky.app/profile/parkermolloy.com/post/3lbqbzx4zlk25
You should probably know who you’re talking to before you decide to run your mouth.
Why would you assume that Parker doesn’t know?
You have fun making excuses for why Dems should just roll over and let fascists strip rights and freedoms from any/every marginalized group they want to though. I’ll just stay here with all the decent human beings who understand that’s bad.
Here she is on election night.
All harass these milquetoast fuck-alls who do nothing but fundraise.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/homenews/house/424622-pelosi-receives-10000-roses-at-her-office-thanks-to-online-fundraiser/amp/
Dismissing someone just because they have DNC credentials/experience isn’t especially helpful.
New rule: when we identify a problem we offer a solution.
you're a fucking phd, figure it out
Or maybe you're just more comfortable criticizing a trans person than they are!
dunno if that equates to "the move that gets normie cis liberals the most on her side" or not, but clearly her move *has* in fact played super well with normie libs.
It only takes one person to make you feel unsafe.
As a cis-identifying person I think it best to let the trans-identifying people sort this out.
Damn I sure wish most people would listen