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[–] dhork@lemmy.world 130 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

The article itself is worth reading, but it includes a link to a Sacramento bee article about this woman and her trans kid. It seems like after the kid came out as trans, the mom really went off the deep end :

https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article285961211.html

This woman is so wrapped up in her anti-trans crusade that it's not just ruining her relationship with her child, but it's consuming her to the point that it's all she talks about. The article mentions that her friends and co-workers have had to ask her to stop sending articles about it. And now she's been kicked out of the hotel she was staying at because she saw some guys in dresses and started throwing a fit. The hotel even offered to refund her stay, but she persisted and got escorted out by the cops instead.

She seems stuck in a misery of her own making. At least her kid seems to have a level head about all of it. I will never understand how some parents would let stuff like that get in the way of their relationship with their kids.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 58 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Drag queens are not even trans a lot of the time. Some aren't even queer.

It's fucking performance art.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well if there is one thing conservatives have never understood (and feel angry and small and left out because of it), it's art. Especially performance art.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Goebbels understood it quite well. He just wasn't a stupid Nazi.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't know enough about the man himself to confirm or deny... I guess he was the propaganda minister when Leni Riefenstahl was "discovered" (though according to wiki, it was Hitler who was mesmerized by her work and had Goebbels assign her to the task)

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

This will give you a lot of information (although it contains a lot of highly offensive Nazi imagery, so you might want to view it somewhere people can't see you just in case) - https://www.dw.com/en/how-the-nazis-used-poster-art-as-propaganda/a-55751640

[–] return2ozma@lemmy.world 44 points 1 month ago (1 children)

She's so enraged she's literally shaking while filming it. Yikes. Here's more of the video: https://youtu.be/CnECTQ6acpc

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago
[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

Spending your ENTIRE LIFE crusading AGAINST your Child is the EXACT Family Value that Jesus preached!

[–] buttfarts@lemy.lol 2 points 1 month ago

She doing a speedrun of hag-maxxing her PC

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 58 points 1 month ago (14 children)

They are trying to normalize assault and I'm terrified they'll get their way.

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 54 points 1 month ago

Beth Bourne, an employee at the University ofCalifornia Davis and active chair of the far-right extremist group Moms for Liberty in Yolo County, Calif., launched into an unsolicited tirade against a group ofdrag queens who were officially invited to partake in a video shoot promoting an upcoming pageant.

Fire this piece of shit. She gives the school a bad name.

I wouldn’t feel terrible if this asshole got zapped by lightning. And hit by an asteroid. And launched into the sun.

[–] Noite_Etion@lemmy.world 48 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I’m worried about the boys of my community who think that they could become women because they’re effeminate, care, and they like wearing makeup, and they like wearing drag.

Ah, so attacking someone and making a scene is going to fix this how...?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Also, has she tried talking to those boys?

I mean, if they're so easily swayed that just seeing drag queens will turn them into women[?] then surely they can be easily swayed back. Maybe show them well-oiled, handsome muscle men without their shirts on to inspire them to be manly?

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The volleyball scene from Top Gun should have you covered.

[–] nomous@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Directions unclear, now I'm in the hot sun in blue jeans, diving into the sand.

You know Maverick never got the sand out of those jeans, absolute psychopath.

[–] Confused_Emus@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

When I find myself feeling particularly queer, I just watch Turkish oil wrestling to man myself back up again.

[–] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 9 points 1 month ago

Not gay not gay not gay not gay

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Ah yes, that definitely makes me feel generally heterosexual and I don't know why any male child would find that anything but something that makes them really want to have sex with a woman.

I also recommend they go down to the park and play some shirts vs. skins full contact football which is very much not homoerotic.

[–] homura1650@lemm.ee 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Also, if a boy wanted to wear makeup and a dress while still being a boy, you know this lady would still have a problem with it.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Isn't that exactly what these drag performers are doing?

[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't think so, you are supposed to use she/her with drags no?

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe when they're in costume? Wikipedia uses he/him for RuPaul.

[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, while in drag is what I was thinking.

[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://its.ucdavis.edu/people/beth-bourne/

She's the STEPS+ coordinator at the Institute of Transportation Studies. Should transport her otta there.

STEPS+ is the Sustainable Transportation and Energy Pathways Program which is all about moving towards sustainable transportation.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

Too bad it can't be sustained with hatred or she'd be perfect for the job.

[–] ceiphas@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Moms for Liberty in Yolo County, Calif.

the name gives me the giggles

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 month ago

I thought for sure the article was pulling my leg when it got to that part

[–] enbyecho@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Which one is the drag queen?

[–] Cornpop@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Right!? She looks like one for sure lol

[–] DeathbringerThoctar@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago
[–] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

Beth Bourne sucks.

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