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The anti-trans boycotts are hopelessly off-target
The free market is telling right-wingers something they refuse to hear: Transgender people exist, and they buy stuff.
A couple days ago I logged onto Target’s website to examine, with my own eyes, two of the items currently causing right wing apoplexy and a massive store boycott, whereupon I learned the items — tuck-friendly bathing suits “for toddlers” — weren’t even real.
...Last week Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was asked, in an interview, to explain conservative crusades to preserve “traditional masculinity.”
“Fears about masculinity are a way into the fear of displacement. Masculinity establishes a default place, and that place is being shifted and threatened by modernity,” Buttigieg said, with his trademark thoughtfulness. “The politicization of masculinity is code for ‘Nothing in your life has to change.’ The problem is, of course, lots of things have to change. Either because there was something wrong with the old way — or because, even as the old way seemed perfectly fine, it’s not an option.”
A couple days ago I logged onto Target’s website to examine, with my own eyes, two of the items currently causing right wing apoplexy and a massive store boycott, whereupon I learned the items — tuck-friendly bathing suits “for toddlers” — weren’t even real.
...Last week Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was asked, in an interview, to explain conservative crusades to preserve “traditional masculinity.”
“Fears about masculinity are a way into the fear of displacement. Masculinity establishes a default place, and that place is being shifted and threatened by modernity,” Buttigieg said, with his trademark thoughtfulness. “The politicization of masculinity is code for ‘Nothing in your life has to change.’ The problem is, of course, lots of things have to change. Either because there was something wrong with the old way — or because, even as the old way seemed perfectly fine, it’s not an option.”
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