Posted on 08/31/2022 2:28:21 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
Until very recently, it was a normal and commonsense thing to say you don’t approve of children being pumped full of hormones or surgically altered for no medical reason. In fact, that’s what a majority of people still believe. Yet, when Brittany Aldean (wife of country music star Jason Aldean) recently said so, woke celebrities went ballistic.
In the caption of a makeup video she shared to Instagram, Brittany Aldean wrote, “I’d really like to thank my parents for not changing my gender when I went through my tomboy phase. I love this girly life.”
This sentiment, while shared in a lighthearted way, touches on a very real phenomenon that many women can relate to. Being a tomboy used to mean nothing but that. Now, many young women are being pushed to change their gender just because they don’t conform to stereotypes. And this has much more dire consequences than depriving them of the ability to do their makeup later in life.
But none of this matters to the gender ideologues who, despite holding fringe positions, act as if anyone who disagrees with them is wholly out of the mainstream. Because Brittany Aldean had committed the crime of being publicly conservative, she received swift pushback from woke country singers.
Cassadee Pope tweeted that Brittany Aldean should include “LGBTQ+ people” in her messaging. Maren Morris added, “It’s so easy to, like, not be a scumbag human? Sell your clip-ins and zip it, Insurrection Barbie.”
There are plenty more tweets where those came from, and the ongoing drama, which isn’t worth getting further into, includes pile-ons from singer Brandi Carlile, author Glennon Doyle, and TV star Jonathan Van Ness.
The Twitter beef is immaterial; what’s striking about this whole situation is the vehemence with which celebrities have gone after a woman who expressed a common opinion — and one that would not have been controversial just a few years ago.
In her response to the backlash, Brittany Aldean wrote, “Advocating for the genital mutilation of children under the disguise of love and calling it ‘gender affirming care,’ is one of the worst evils. I will always support my children and do what I can do protect their innocence.” She added, “Some parents want to be accepted by society so badly that they're willing to make life-altering decisions for their children who aren't old enough to fully comprehend the consequences of those actions. Love is protecting your child until they are mature enough as an adult to make their own life decisions. Until then, leave children alone.”
This seems like an anodyne statement. But not to today’s Left, which is swift to condemn any person whose common sense conflicts with its agenda.
He was right there too, for sure.
No, they think all democrats are scumbags.
Somebody stole my car radio and replaced it with an exactly similar looking device that only plays commercials.
Gay rodeos?
*on the radio.
If you look in other places there is a ton of great country music being made today.
Turnpike Troubadours
Sturgil Simpson
Tyler Childers
Colter Wall
Flatland Cavalry
John Fullbright
Charley Crockett
Slaid Cleaves
Luke Bell
Margo Price
Lost Dog Street Band
Hayes Carll
Whiskey Myers
Old Crow Medicine Show
Cody Jinks
Nicki Bluhm
Blackberry Smoke
Whitey Morgan
William Clark Green
Ian Noe
Mike and the Moonpies
Charles Wesley Godwin
Cole Cheney
Justin Townes Earl
See #45
A fine country tune indeed. Many thanks for the link.
There’s something about advocating so loudly for an abomination that truly brings out the demonic in these monsters.
You keep saying that, and keep saying John Travolta and “Urban Cowboy.” 😁
He sounds like a traditionalist compared to what we have now.
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