Itās called āCalendargate,ā and itās raising the question of what ā and whom ā the right-wing war on āwokenessā is really for.
While most people were enjoying the holidays, extremely online conservatives were fighting about a pinup calendar.
Last month, Ultra Right Beer ā a company founded as a conservative alternative to allegedly woke Bud Light ā released a 2024 calendar titled āConservative Dadās Real Women of America 2024 Calendar.ā The calendar contains photos of āthe most beautiful conservative women in Americaā in various sexy poses. Some, like anti-trans swimmer Riley Gaines and writer Ashley St. Clair, are wearing revealing outfits; others, like former House candidate Kim Klacik, are fully clothed. No one is naked.
But this mild sexiness was just a bit too much for some prominent social conservatives, who started decrying the calendar in late December as (among other things) ādemonic.ā The basic complaint is that the calendar is pandering to married menās sinful lust, debasing conservative women, and making conservatives seem like hypocrites when they complain about leftist immorality.
Yep.
Andrea Dworkin:
See also: right-wing women who are obsessed about trans women being rapists, drag queens and bathrooms. Obviously trans women raping women is incredibly rare. But theyāre a āsafeā and acceptable target for victimised and often traumatised women. Women who are too weak to criticise or attack the men who actually hurt them. Eg. JK Rowling is a victim of sexual and domestic abuse. The perpetrator was her husband. Instead of attacking straight men, she spends all day going on about trans women.
You see this kind of psychology in most (quasi-)fascists. Itās sadomasochistic. Kiss the boot of those who opress you, hold those you hold to be below you in contempt and treat them accordingly. Of course, in reality right wing women have common cause with all the people they hate. Just like most right wing men have more in common with a poor black trans sex worker, than a billionaire.
As you say, itās hard to feel sorry for them. Theyāre sabotaging themselves, their gender and their class. Theyāre actively hurting those who could be their allies. Itās partly self-preservation, but itās also vanity. They lie to themselves that theyāre not (fellow) victims.
TLDR: humans are weird.
Yeah I would feel sorry for them, but as a trans woman I stood up for women as a whole. Iāve demanded equality my whole life. Conservative women respond by acting offended I consider myself their equal, ignoring that I consider them their husbandās equals
Thereās the āsad world theoryā here: Some people donāt care how good or bad their life is, they only care whether others have it worse. There are enough of those people that theyāre an actual social problem.
So in this case, the theory is that theyād rather be slaves to their husbands as long as they can look down on trans people. Thatās preferable to being equal to their husbands and also to trans people.
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