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[–] WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 81 points 12 hours ago (9 children)

what is this “Michelle Obama is a man” obsession?

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Pretty sure it has something to do with Grindr popping off every time there's a conservative event.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

It's not just Michelle. This is a very common racist meme against black women in general. It's widespread among fascists, etc.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/for-women-athletes-of-color-outsized-scrutiny-over-gender-is-nothing-new-historians-say

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 9 points 6 hours ago

She's more of a man than they are, and more of a woman than they'll ever have.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago

She's a powerful black woman whom they dislike and so a lot of them have convinced themselves she's trans to make her even worse in their eyes and to try to convince others she (and her husband) are bad.

The sheer right wing derangement over the Obamas is fucking nuts

[–] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 63 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Remember that the GOP and its base are so incredibly racist, that the fact we ever had a black president is quite literally traumatic to these buffoons.

They quite literally still cry about it and shake in fear every day, especially knowing it could theoretically happen again.

The real question is how are there still so many dipshits in America who aren't MAGA but still can't see its 10000000% a white supremacist movement.

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 34 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (3 children)

They have to add on that obviously Obama was not just black, and not just half black and half white, but he was also a foreigner, he was also Islamic, he was also married to a trans woman, that his kids were manchurian candidates specially trained by some sort of secret three-letter government agency in another country to destroy America and he was also some secret agent....

The stories they have made up about Obama elevate him far beyond the level of mythical. Their brains simply will not accept that he simply won the vote.

They have to wrap so many levels on top of it. It must have been a conspiracy. Otherwise, how could a black man have become president?

When you say, hey, you know, maybe it's a little racist to think this way. They go, oh, I'm not fucking racist. The guy works for the devil, that's all.

That fuse in their brain has been permanently short-circuited.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

They're claiming Michelle is a trans woman actually. I don't care enough about their delusions to figure out how they think the kids happened

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

Fixed, thank you.

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 11 points 8 hours ago

I know it's kind of sad, but I feel like a lot of these people would be more mentally healthy if they would just go ahead and admit that deep down in their hearts of hearts, they "can't believe a n-word was president".

They want to say it with all of their soul, but their puritanical American self-repression is what's got them trapped.

They want to say they're not racist while hating black people with a deeply fundamental part of their spiritual makeup.

I'm sure they even see the craziness that the Orange Cheeto has been pulling and are deeply ashamed of it.

But because they can't come out to themselves and admit that they are racist, they hate black people. They want black people to be underneath them so they can feel better about themselves, they are venting that energy in wild and uncontrolled ways, and very intelligent people in the GOP are taking advantage of that.

Admitting that they are racist is part of the solution.

They could cure that racism afterwards, but first you have to admit that you have a problem.

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 1 points 8 hours ago

HEY! Only I'm allowed to talk about my mom that way, buddy. Even if it's all true.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 71 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 17 points 10 hours ago

Or suck her cock

[–] SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 23 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Ever notice that most of MAGA's material was cribbed from the liberal side? There was a running joke 15-20 years ago about Ann Coulter being a trans woman, due to her prominent Adam's apple. They applied the "I'm rubber you're glue" rule, and have been trying to make this a thing since then. As usual, they've missed what made the joke funny, as cringe as it was.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Ann Coulter has an adam's apple? I missed all of that. Ben Shapiro is a trans man by the way, it's true.

[–] turdburglar@piefed.social 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

sorry, who? never heard of him.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

He's a fascist influencer/interneter. Very anti trans and all that, very pro israel. Anti anything left or woke, pro president. He's a piece of fucking shit.

[–] turdburglar@piefed.social 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

sorry i was just negging him.

the worst thing you can say about these people is that you have no idea who they are.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 hours ago

Ha ha, I actually don't know who most of them are. I had no idea who Charlie Kirk was before South Park had Cartman be him that episode just a bit before kirk gave that full throated performance in Utah. I do happen to know Shapiro because of his Israel bullshit though.

[–] SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip -2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Everybody has the same anatomy in the neck, yeah, so I don't know if culturally you'd call it an Adam's apple on a woman, but hers is somewhat visible.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Enkrod@feddit.org 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

As a rarity, woman don't have adam's apples generally, just as woman don't have testicles and dicks, although a few do.

[–] SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

If women don't have larynxes, how do they speak?

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

You are too dumb to respond to further. Ha ha ha, are you for real? Jesus Christ, hates you.

[–] SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 1 points 5 hours ago

This unhinged reply non-figuratively made me laugh. Legit thanks, I needed that today.

[–] SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 1 points 6 hours ago

I do know what it's called when the larynx is prominent on a woman's neck? (Might have to gimme a lil' hint.)

[–] rozodru@piefed.world 13 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

"When someone tells you who they are, believe them."

Why do you think they're so obsessed with who can use which restroom, obsessed with who may or may not be a man or woman, make posts about getting married or engaged during pride month, etc, etc, etc it's because they're all collectively jealous of the LGBTQ+ community and in many cases are closeted homosexuals/transgender. Which is an insult to the LGBTQ+ community and does them a disservice. They want that life so desperately but are terrified that everyone in their circle will ridicule them for it meanwhile those in said circle also want the same thing.

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago

I would say it's their upbringing. They were told that gay people will go to hell and that gay people will all get AIDS and have horrible diseases and will suffer and everybody will hate them for being gay and that it's bad to be gay, or LGBT+ in any way.

Therefore, if you're LGBT+, you're a bad person.

And whatever horrible things happen to bad people is perfectly okay. It is their just desserts.

They have been programmed to treat LGBT+ people the same way they treat pedophiles.

Laugh at them and cheer when they die, pray for their death, keep your family and children away from them, physically attack them if they get near you, prevent them from getting jobs, make them feel unwelcome everywhere they go.

And because, at a fundamental level of their own hearts, they have designated LGBT+ people as bad people, they are perfectly okay with this.

The only real cure for it is to change how they see those people.

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 24 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

they had the same problem with Brigitte Macron nô?

[–] WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 11 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] pack@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago

You could just attack her for being a creep who groomed someone 20 years younger into a relationship?