Trans People Are So Oppressed That They're Opening the Olympics
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Drag artist =/= trans person
Because it apparently needs saying.
And even if there had been trans people in the ceremony, it does not affect the reality of the discrimination against them in other places and/or at other times.
I’ve seen it noted that clowns are gradually becoming either psycho monsters or wacky sex fetishes, while drag is gradually becoming desexualized and filling the void left by clowns. That evolution is far from complete, of course, as traditional drag and clowning is still fairly common. But leave it to conservatives to totally fail to notice ongoing cultural trends and then totally miss the point of them when they finally do notice.
…and that’ll be Le Makron’s final legacy:
Oppressing pearl-clutchers.
Have you never seen “La Cage Aux Folles”, Gayson Backache…?!
More from the OP:
But remember everybody: trans people and drag queens are just seconds away from being snuffed off the face of the earth by evil rightwing death squads who hate minorities, want women barefoot and pregnant, and want to make us live under a Christofascist (how I loathe that word) dictatorship.
That is what makes the people pushing this stuff more insidious than the residents of the Capitol from Suzanne Collins's "Hunger Games" series, even if the one thing they have in common is that being disgusting, distasteful, bizarre, and gaudy is part of how they demonstrate their power over others.
As far as I remember, the Capitol people in the movies (I did not read the books) never claimed to be victims of the other Districts.
Yet we have seen tons of wailing and gnashing of teeth every time someone objects to letting kids watch (or, worse, participate in) drag shows or saying children should not be prevented from undergoing puberty and pumped full of opposite-sex hormones.
This might be a reasonable observation if the parade was IN THE FUCKING USA. Or, maybe, if state legislatures were outlawing parades. Or a grass-roots movement to purge the olympics, maybe? I guess?
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