Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claims 'trans kids are awesome' as she advocates for allowing biological males in young girls' sports

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[–]BEB[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

I agree.

My point was that it's not as if AOC has to chant "Trans Women Are Women" or starve, because she's got a degree from a good university and other career options. So, unlike some Muslim women who have to get along to survive, AOC is throwing women under the bus for her own pure ambition, and that is unforgivable to me.

[–]teacherterf 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

But does it even work that way? I agree that if AOC tweeted anything gender critical, her political career would be over. But is this over-the-top yay-trans-kids sloganeering actually helping her? She rose to prominence on an old-school economic-left platform. She's at her best when she's talking about how ordinary working people are being screwed. She endorsed Sanders, who never played the identity politics game and who went further in the primaries than Warren, who did. I'm just not sure that this kind of behaviour is gaining her any real support that she wouldn't get otherwise, which makes it all the more perplexing (and creepy).

[–]BEB[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I myself, after the MERMAIDS debacle, called AOC's office and told them all about the dangers of puberty blockers. So her endorsement of "trans kids" is made in full knowledge of the horrific mental and physical ramification of transition.

So my guess is AOC is getting a lot of money from Big Gender.

[–]teacherterf 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Right. I live in a country with caps on political donations, so that possibility didn't even occur to me. But of course, that makes perfect and terrible sense.

[–]BEB[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I want to move to your country. I wish I were kidding. At this point, the US is a Banana Republic with a First World veneer.

[–]lavender_menace 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

She wouldn’t starve, but she would be shunned and expelled. And yeah the standard package: violence, rape and murder threats from the brave and stunning. People are afraid of that. We are afraid to be thrown out of our community. We are wired that way. Our reptilian brain still remembers that being unliked = being alone and die. So it is at least partially about survival. With the other part you might be right, she might exchange people for power.

[–]BEB[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Honestly, if I can be open about being GC, and I am, AOC can - she's very arrogant - she has no hesitation in taking the genderlogues' side.

I am not saying that every woman can be openly GC - because of the unquestioning embrace of gender ideology by Progressive society it can be career-ending - but someone with AOC's privilege (she's a member of Congress and can get bodyguards, I assume) is in a much better place than just about any of us.

And AOC gets awful threats about all sorts of things she spouts already, so why would she be more afraid of spouting GC talking points than some of the other stuff she advocates for?

I myself am not buying it from AOC. After she was so callous about the online Mermaids funder, which again, was in another country, I get opportunist vibes from her.