The Homophobia Horseshoe

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[–]sisterinsomnia 27 insightful - 1 fun27 insightful - 0 fun28 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yes. Also true about views on women. Conservatives believe gender is directly tied to biological sex and cannot be altered from the 1950s view. "If you are a boy you must play football, if you are a girl you must play with dolls."

Trans ideology ignores biological sex and tries to erase it in women, but it puts gender in its place as something fixed. "If you play football you must be a boy. If you play with dolls you must be a girl."

So the two ideologies share a lot, and also sit at the ends of the horseshoe. Authoritarian thinking is what the end-points share, as well as black-and-white-no-nuances thinking.

[–]firebird 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thinking in black and white is easy, that's probably what's so attractive about this world view. If the terms male and female are only about what reproductive role you could potentially fulfill, you could be anyone aside from that, and that leaves a lot of gray. So people try to get the boxes back so they can push people into them again. All neat and easy again.

The only exception here seems to be the "non binary" people, who do recognize shades of gray, but seem to think they're the only ones in that area.