Is it all just a part of political theater meant to propel Meatball Ron into the spotlight, or are there deeper causes that this legislation is being created in reaction to? The purposeful dismantling of the education system seems like one piece, but what else is going on?

  • FloridaBoi [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Transphobia as newer expression of latent homophobia that pervades all conservative and reactionary thought. These in turn are also linked with misogyny which again is also embedded in that ideology.

    Conservative ideology is about maintaining (and expanding?) hierarchies where white cishet men are at the top. It’s not many steps removed from the idea that the family is the elemental unit of that hierarchy and oppression with the patriarch as the elemental oppressor.

    • commiewithoutorgans [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      These partriachal systems must be upheld in order to make "women's work" something that capital doesn't have to pay for. Trans people fly in the face of the structure which allows capital to profit freely off of social reproduction. So does feminism generally (or at least the good ones)

      That's the argument Ive seen