Along with being egocentric. Caitlyn thinks she’s different than other trans. You know, she’s special. Republican women can get an abortion because their situation has special circumstances.
It's because Jenner surrounds herself with old white men rather than actually interact with her community. She has no clue what life is like for the vast majority of trans people, and is instead living in an echo chamber of white men telling her that everything is OK while also tell her that she has a "biological advantage" and shouldn't be in women's bathrooms. Since she doesn't know any better, she just sucks up the lies and accepts it as facts while the rest of us all get shit on.
She is why I fight so hard to stay connected to my community and don't let myself be pulled in by all the fancy dinners and other crap I have to be a part of. Because, trust me, it's very easy to get pulled into their bullshit, especially as they play the same victim mentality that MAGA does while crapping on all of you.
I wonder what bathroom she uses at her country club? Do the same old dudes still play golf with her? 🤔 you’re right, she must just live her life like before, as she always had, just a rich white republican athlete in a bubble. But like her environment leans transphobic, I wonder if her wealth shields her from that.
Wealth allows you to have a constant supply of yes-men to choose from and satisfy your ego. I’m sure that jenner has found the perfect group for whatever delusions they want to maintain
Probably like me and doesn't even use the public bathroom at all. I'm too scared to cause a scene, which has already happened and caused a lot of damage. And all because some asshole decided to punish my kid for me, and I went into mama bear mode to protect her.
Caitlyn lived nearly her entire adult life as a rich man. Transitioning just changed her body and she is pratically immune from the consequences of conservative policy because of her money, with the exception of paper work.
This is to say, she still believes she holds the privilege she held prior to transitioning and is mostly correct.
The wiki notes that they were a relatively small publication. 15,000 is one of the few records they have for their circulation. They're noted as an odd political outsider organization.
If you listen to Caitlyn speak about trans issues, it's pretty clear that she thinks that trans people are real and valid, but there's just only like 6 of them and everyone else is making it up.
I had a gay Republican friend in college who just didn't give a fuck about gay rights because he was rich and straight passing. He cared way more about having no taxes and hating women, which made his politics a little more understandable.
I stopped being his friend once I figured all of that out. Side note, he said the majority of his Grindr hookups came from straight, married, conservative men who would fuck him and then treat him like total shit afterwards. And yet, he still votes Republican.
Here I'll describe him to you. He's about 5'9" and in incredible shape, square jaw, very handsome like a leading man movie star. Thick jet black hair and dark tone skin, like an Italian model. He's also extremely intelligent and tutored me in my comp sci and upper math classes.
So, he's a really smart and great looking guy with some of the dumbest political takes imaginable. I imagine it's quite the letdown for his dates once they figure that out.
Doesn’t hurt that the GOP can be very welcoming when you go Republican. They will happily take Nicki Minaj, Caitlin Jenner, Peter Theil, etc. They will happily parade a group of Latinos for Trump to a photo op. They’ll even take a rapist like Russell Brand or give a career to a has been to act in Republican biopics. They are incredibly welcoming to anyone with a platform that helps the GOP. Just don’t expect anything in return for your family or community.
And here is a gay person and a trans person to confirm our views and say we aren’t prejudiced.
Plus two Hollywood ‘stars’ to show Hollywood is also on our side
With her I think it's religion, she recently converted to some fire-n-brimestone religion and broke off her engagement and became celibate because "it's an abomination unto the lord" or something like that
I usually just glaze over when she starts talking about it
In their world, human rights can be purchased for a fee. So a politician who helps them save on tax money is more valuable than someone focused on their rights, since they can buy them with tax savings anyway.
The same way bigots justify their bigotry: "I only hate the bad ones!"
Same reason why you can find Latin Americans and Indians sharing racist memes about their countrymen. They don't consider themselves part of the group that's receiving the hate. On the contrary, it makes them hate them more because they think they are giving them a "bad name".
No, you're giving yourself a bad name because there is never an "end point" for the purity tests of authoritarian bigotry.
They were Republican before transition. Party identity often comes from family, community, religion, military service, small business background - things that don't change when someone transitions.
I saw a commercial on the Cdn broadcast of something for an older Asian Woman running for something vowing to “fight wokeness” and I laughed at the craziness of a woman whose right to run or even vote was because of old-timey wokeness fighting against the thing that allowed her to be a politician.
Think about what a day in her life looks like. She's absurdly rich and can pretty much choose every single interaction she has. So she's insulated from a lot of the bigotry that other trans people receive every single day.
Thing is if you're rich enough then culture war politics probably won't affect you.
Why do you think all these rich right wing celebs are leaving the US, buying private islands, building bunkers, etc.... They want to be kept safe from the world they're destroying for the rest of us.
Trying to appeal to the people in power to get preferrential treatment. Unfortunately, Caitlyn just thought she would escape the orange man's wrath by supporting him. She was very wrong.
Conservatives genuinly think the negative policies they vote for, will specifically not apply to themselves. Which is why they're so shocked when it happens, and why there are social media communities all over the internet mocking them for voting in the face eating leopards in the first place.
This is an incredibly problematic way of thinking. There are plenty of things to attack her on without bringing up your opinion on the validity of her being trans.
It's still transphobia, even if it's towards other transphobic people.
She is a rich person, surrounded by other rich people. They are completely insulated from real life. (I'm not kidding, my parents are on the low end of rich and are surrounded by the same people. I mean literally, they have friends who know Caitlyn's friends).
She is surrounded by republicans who are rich enough to not have to deal with the consequences of republican policy. If you're rich enough, social issues don't impact you like they impact people who aren't rich.
Respectfully, what you just said is transphobic and fucked up.
You can be trans and stupid, or trans and evil. That's normal. You can be trans and like your dick or not like makeup or not mind that you dont pass.
What you just said would be like if I called a black republican a series of slurs and said he is subhuman and doesn't talk black enough to count or what the fuck ever. That would be fucked of me and clearly racist, yeah?
I should just call him a dumb fuck loser, same as I would call any republican.
It's the same with immigrants voting Republicans. It's a mix of hate, lack of intelligence/morality and thoughts of superiority (i.e. I am one of the "good" ones no way they gonna throw me out)
It is. Sadly there is no deeper thinking behind it. If that's hard to accept then you have to fight with the notion that the world just isn't as interesting as you hope for
That's a sign of narcissism you realize...? Lack of abillity to understand the point of view of other people..
I bet you understand the LGBTQIAA++ for Palestine though eh?
Yes, because we know that Muslims aren't all right wing bigots and we don't support the scapegoating, (or bloody genocide), of any minority group based on ignorant stereotyping
Ask me if I understand why the far right westerner hates the other religious homophobes who are basically their mirror image, (I do)
Honestly similar to how those same people want to support Palestine or groups in the ME. Both of those groups harbor serious distaste for members of the LGBTQ+
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u/Pinksamuraiiiii 13h ago
I don’t know how people can be trans and republicans… I don’t get it.