[Anna] wasn’t attracted to the right by the romanticized aesthetic of “traditional America” — big beautiful houses and bread-making and families with half a dozen children. Rather, she says, “I was in love with the frisson of transgression.”
“The right wing has a Madonna-wh*** complex about its female voices,” Kaschuta says. “If you’re a good woman and if you stick with the program and tell us what we want to hear, then you’re very much with us and we’ll praise you and we’ll tell you you’re a beautiful angel and a credit to our movement. But the second you veer off script or say something that treads on their pieties,” she says, “you are suddenly pressed into the ‘wh*** category,’ and all bets are off.”
These two passages highlight why this fallout was inevitable. If you attract people to a movement based on being le edgy, contrarian, say shit to trigger people politics, then those people expect that they get to do that. If they get attacked and demonized the moment one of their “just telling it like it is” quips stings someone else on the right, then of course they’ll realize they don’t actually get to be contrarian and then leave.
If they want to be contrarian, that’s the left’s whole brand.
We’re the ones with all the facts on our side that no one wants to be true. We’re the contrarians, we know how all the things that everyone loves sucks, and all the things everyone hates is good.
But no, they call the right edgy when their whole mantra is “popular thing good, unpopular thing bad.”
They don’t want to be truly contrarian, they want to elicit the same sort of reaction as a three year old who makes “poop” the punchline of every joke because they know it’s a word adults admonish them for using. Which ties into the bit in the article about these New Right men wishing violence upon women because they remind them of the elementary school teacher that scolded them.
These two passages highlight why this fallout was inevitable. If you attract people to a movement based on being le edgy, contrarian, say shit to trigger people politics, then those people expect that they get to do that. If they get attacked and demonized the moment one of their “just telling it like it is” quips stings someone else on the right, then of course they’ll realize they don’t actually get to be contrarian and then leave.
If they want to be contrarian, that’s the left’s whole brand.
We’re the ones with all the facts on our side that no one wants to be true. We’re the contrarians, we know how all the things that everyone loves sucks, and all the things everyone hates is good.
But no, they call the right edgy when their whole mantra is “popular thing good, unpopular thing bad.”
They don’t want to be truly contrarian, they want to elicit the same sort of reaction as a three year old who makes “poop” the punchline of every joke because they know it’s a word adults admonish them for using. Which ties into the bit in the article about these New Right men wishing violence upon women because they remind them of the elementary school teacher that scolded them.
Some of the most deeply unserious people to ever exist.
most insightful liberal
I’ll give her some points for honesty.