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Caitlyn Jenner was and is such a fucking poison pill in the process of trans rights recognition and awareness.
Such pure distilled American bullshit.
You probably couldn’t engineer a worse way for our experiences and struggles to have been brought to public consciousness even if you tried.
Why was it her? Why was it, “look! look at this lovely person! why would not want to do everything in your power to ease the burdens on this POOR UNFORTUNATE MILLIONAIRE KILLER NARCISSIST?”
And for like the better part of a decade it was somehow actually effective? The mind boggles.
But what a dangerous foundation to have established. Look now, as this horribly unsympathetic figure is again the face in the media “pushing back” and for what? A special dispensation for being one of the good ones.
Yea, I’m thinkin its Marg Bar America all day long.
I remember my heart sank when I heard the news of her coming out and this is exactly what I was thinking. One of the worst possible people to have come out as trans, and at such a pivotal moment too, as well as instantly overshadowing actually good representation for cis society to understand our struggles through. What a fucking shit show.
It was really really odd and unsettling to me, to see the media and pop culture take the ball from the activist front and run with it so far and so fast. With so little regard for nuance and so much time for scandal.
can’t really explain this in a way that will make sense to people who are vulnerable now and facing active or imminent repression, but I expected shit to get a lot worse a lot quicker for our people in reaction to how manufactured our acceptance felt at the time.
I underestimated how authentically people adopt the new thing into their world view when society tells them the wind has changed. I sometimes wonder if it was the last big cultural influence campaign executed via the old broadcast media. Not to discount the impact of activist work but shit changed SO fast I’m still a bit disoriented.
Did it feel organic to you? like, I never have much reason to talk about this anymore and you can’t really trust cis people with a conversation about it even if they had been positioned to witness the process of change. Just wondering if what I’m describing resonates at all?
Feels entirely possible that I read too much into everything then and now, with a big side of conspiracy brain along for the ride. I’m not really thinking “conspiracy” just… it was weird right?
Caitlyn Jenner was and is such a fucking poison pill in the process of trans rights recognition and awareness.
Such pure distilled American bullshit.
You probably couldn’t engineer a worse way for our experiences and struggles to have been brought to public consciousness even if you tried.
Why was it her? Why was it, “look! look at this lovely person! why would not want to do everything in your power to ease the burdens on this POOR UNFORTUNATE MILLIONAIRE KILLER NARCISSIST?”
And for like the better part of a decade it was somehow actually effective? The mind boggles.
But what a dangerous foundation to have established. Look now, as this horribly unsympathetic figure is again the face in the media “pushing back” and for what? A special dispensation for being one of the good ones.
Yea, I’m thinkin its Marg Bar America all day long.
I remember my heart sank when I heard the news of her coming out and this is exactly what I was thinking. One of the worst possible people to have come out as trans, and at such a pivotal moment too, as well as instantly overshadowing actually good representation for cis society to understand our struggles through. What a fucking shit show.
It was really really odd and unsettling to me, to see the media and pop culture take the ball from the activist front and run with it so far and so fast. With so little regard for nuance and so much time for scandal.
can’t really explain this in a way that will make sense to people who are vulnerable now and facing active or imminent repression, but I expected shit to get a lot worse a lot quicker for our people in reaction to how manufactured our acceptance felt at the time.
I underestimated how authentically people adopt the new thing into their world view when society tells them the wind has changed. I sometimes wonder if it was the last big cultural influence campaign executed via the old broadcast media. Not to discount the impact of activist work but shit changed SO fast I’m still a bit disoriented.
Did it feel organic to you? like, I never have much reason to talk about this anymore and you can’t really trust cis people with a conversation about it even if they had been positioned to witness the process of change. Just wondering if what I’m describing resonates at all?
Feels entirely possible that I read too much into everything then and now, with a big side of conspiracy brain along for the ride. I’m not really thinking “conspiracy” just… it was weird right?