• Nat (she/they)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    16 days ago

    Supporting trans people is literally the Handmaid’s Tale. What a joke, this is just an advanced playground insult where he thinks of the worst thing he can call someone with zero bearing on reality.

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      16 days ago

      I am struggling to understand the relation myself … in his mind, trans women are predatory rapist men, right? So … maybe the idea is that pro-trans women are enabling rape? Even so, the Handmaid’s Tale is about a conservative Christian dystopia where the rape is institutional, while even TERFs think trans women are opportunist rapists… the conservative Christians are the political bedfellows of TERFs, so it’s a weird example to use - almost feels like an unconscious expression of cognitive dissonance, a kind of projection maybe.