Leopards Ate My Face

If things ever get 'painful' enough for me, you can believe I'm going to start channeling that pain towards the ruling class that put me in that position.

Good thing is they always have kids so we never have to worry about a shortage of targets.

There are dark days ahead. If history has shown us anything, it's that the ruling class only loses its power when workers bust out the guillotines.

Everything about conservative American women was explained in Dworkin’s Right Wing Women.

Women who grow up in shitty sexist communities (eg, imagine being a teenage girl growing up in fucking Disney, Oklahoma.) You have no future. You are supposed to find a guy to marry yourself off to. You are promised this is the greatest thing ever, taught to fantasize about your wedding, to imagine you’re happily ever after.

Then you get married to some guy. Maybe he’s great, maybe he’s not. But you never got to be a person. You were never taught that you could be something more. You feel bitter and powerless in your community - you’ll never be the deacon, but you’ll always be cleaning up after the potluck.

But then you see other women who don’t have to live like that. This is a societal threat to these communities. That there are clearly women in the world who are happy and fulfilled in an office or a field, while you will never be anything more than a church secretary or PTA mom.

So the propaganda is always that these women are lying. They aren’t actually happy. They aren’t actually competent - they only got their jobs through “DEI.” They aren’t better than you, it’s a liberal plot.

This is also connected to the fear routine - see how the right wing women sphere is the TERFs. They whip up a history to aim the real anxieties and fears related to a culture that covers up sexual violence against women (how many youth pastors have we never heard about?) and redirects it to an acceptable target. Women who perform this well enough are even rewarded with having their voice recognized - that Phyllis Schafly made a career of telling other women to not have careers, that Rowling has defined the exclusion of trans women as a prime most important feminist feat (while women in the US die of lack of access to reproductive health care…)

They don’t benefit from DEI because they’ve been told not to want careers, and they are mad at the wrong people.

For everything the conservatives are bad at, they are somehow crazy good at messaging.*

Their ability to take a positive term, redefine it as something it isn't, and use it as a hammer is impressive. The reality of "getting rid of DEI" clearly means more discrimination and hiring/firing based on race/sex/etc, but they certainly framed it as "best candidate instead of minority preference".

This is a repeating trend. Fake news, Critical race theory, woke, cancel culture, marxism, radical left, et -- these are all good examples of the right redefining and hijacking terms or language. It wouldn't surprise me if they try to do it with the word "democracy" to mean something like "far left woke Democrat ideals".

* Just to clarify -- "good at messaging" just meaning that it's effective at being taken up and repeated by a subset of the population. How people listen to and trust the stuff is beyond me.

Their husbands told them that they should be pissed so they are pissed.

Rhetoric has shaped their perspective. They don't know what DEI is.

Most of them don't understand that unless they have million dollar yachts that they use as tenders for their billion dollar yachts that they are the "poor" that Trump and the oligarchs tearing apart the US government don't want their tax dollars going to support.

We must dismantle the conservative propaganda machine if we ever hope to heal

"Expendable peasant": Anyone who isn't a billionaire willing to throw money at L'Orange.

Great phrase, BTW. I'm brand new around here and I already like the place!