I don’t say anything about Vance or Mullen or McConnell or Rubio or Kennedy being closeted.
I’ve criticized all of them plenty though, because they suck. They’re not throwing off 100,000 roentgens of closet power though.
It seems like maybe you are operating with a default assumption of obligate heterosexuality, and think that it’s automatically an insult to think about other people having latent desires.
How many married men have hit you up asking for cock on the sly? Ever had to navigate dating needing to distinguish between men who are attracted to women with penises vs men who see trans women as a psychological bridge to gay?
I’ve seen this from multiple angles, I’ve been in the closet before, and I’m currently one of the people that guys like Pete Hegseth are trying to get to top them. I know people who do sex work because they have no other option and closeted men are real people that often present real life danger to the people they get fucked by.
It seems like maybe you are operating with a default assumption of obligate heterosexuality, and think that it’s automatically an insult to think about other people having latent desires.
You want to tell me it wasn’t being used in an insulting way in the thread I linked? Really? What do you think was the point of it?
I’m no stranger to sex work, I was trans in NYC in the late 00s. I still don’t think it’s acceptable to deploy vibes based accusations of being closeted as political discourse.
I agree that if I were writing a letter to a US Rep or giving a public address arguing for the proposition “Hegseth should be immediately impeached” and at any point stated “he sets off the community’s gaydar like an LA earthquake sets off car alarms”, that would be bad politics even if the argument was effective.
But I’m shitposting on Lemmy, and I don’t want to self-censor about the fact that queer people need to be particularly careful of people like Hegseth, and about pointing out the larger way that the fascist project exploits exactly this kind of psychosexual tension.
I don’t say anything about Vance or Mullen or McConnell or Rubio or Kennedy being closeted.
I’ve criticized all of them plenty though, because they suck. They’re not throwing off 100,000 roentgens of closet power though.
It seems like maybe you are operating with a default assumption of obligate heterosexuality, and think that it’s automatically an insult to think about other people having latent desires.
How many married men have hit you up asking for cock on the sly? Ever had to navigate dating needing to distinguish between men who are attracted to women with penises vs men who see trans women as a psychological bridge to gay?
I’ve seen this from multiple angles, I’ve been in the closet before, and I’m currently one of the people that guys like Pete Hegseth are trying to get to top them. I know people who do sex work because they have no other option and closeted men are real people that often present real life danger to the people they get fucked by.
You want to tell me it wasn’t being used in an insulting way in the thread I linked? Really? What do you think was the point of it?
I’m no stranger to sex work, I was trans in NYC in the late 00s. I still don’t think it’s acceptable to deploy vibes based accusations of being closeted as political discourse.
I agree that if I were writing a letter to a US Rep or giving a public address arguing for the proposition “Hegseth should be immediately impeached” and at any point stated “he sets off the community’s gaydar like an LA earthquake sets off car alarms”, that would be bad politics even if the argument was effective.
But I’m shitposting on Lemmy, and I don’t want to self-censor about the fact that queer people need to be particularly careful of people like Hegseth, and about pointing out the larger way that the fascist project exploits exactly this kind of psychosexual tension.