The problem with Democratic party identity politics is, the various identities are not compatible. Because they are all inside the larger party, they have to somehow get along, but they are at odds with one another. Blacks are insulted that gays compare their “plight” with how blacks were treated by the larger society sixty years ago. (By the way, Blacks, all that has changed. If you’re being held back today it’s not due to racism. It’s due to YOU.)
As another example, lesbians have vanished...overnight. When Ellen DeGeneres suddenly stopped being a lesbian, it was news. This is because the only reason this talentless woman has a career is, she identified as a lesbian and that was worth getting your own show. That’s right, today the only way Carrol Burnett or Lucile Ball could get a show is if they were lesbians, or some other victim group that needs propping up with “equal” representation.
Trans women complained bitterly that lesbian women would not have sex with them. One even said they should be “forced” to have sex with them because they identified as women. But, if trans (fake) women wanted to have sex with lesbians…women, they’d actually just be heterosexual men dressed up as women. Since, in the liberal pantheon of who’s who in the victim structure, trans men are shiny and new and lesbians are old hat and lesbians will support democrats regardless…they can be sacrificed on the alter of political correctness. Whoever sets victim theology reasoned that the thing that had to go in this dispute was lesbians. To describe yourself as a lesbian meant you weren’t accepting of trans women…therefore lesbians had to quit being lesbians and become instead, queers. It would be interesting to know how they got the word out, but…BOOM!...overnight, no more lesbians.
It sucks to be on the outside of the victimhood hierarchy. Whenever the next victim group comes along, and, it will, then maybe it’s the trans women who will suffer demotion. Blacks were demoted for Hispanics and Hispanics were demoted by the alphabet crowd, and, now individual letters in the alphabet crowd are getting demoted. This would be entertaining if it didn’t affect bakers and wedding planners who don’t want to promote this insanity.
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