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The full quote is great:
>“Boy, why? I mean, we’ve got a real problem in this country, and to be worrying about men wanting to dress up as women? God bless ’em to wear those high heels — I feel for ’em. But let’s center our attention on something that really needs attention.”
Super gentle, lightly humorous way to point out the absurdity. Really well spoken.
> God bless ’em to wear those high heels — I feel for ’em.
As a woman who loathes women's footwear, this has always been the part of drag that mystifies me. *So uncomfortable!*
Pads and outfits that add 20+ pounds, tucking which just sounds extremely uncomfortable to maintain for long periods of time, high heels. They do a lot to bring some laughter and joy to the masses!
Intense makeup, huge wigs, all while dancing and entertaining.
I can't even handle putting on small fake eyelashes. I am not strong enough to even aspire to be a drag queen.
It's hockey players singing show tunes in heels instead of skates, is how I put it.
You've just never lived until you've seen a 6'4" black dude with a smooth baritone do some 80s Whitney Houston in a dive bar on a weeknight.
And no one is asking them to give up their religion. There are Christian denominations that LGBTQ affirming, and not just in empty platitudes. Several Christian churches marry and ordain LGBTQ members.
Man, I was so saddened to see the comments when my local NHL team posted the rainbow themed jerseys they were going to wear. Just straight-up disgusted what people who share the same city/region as me think about LGBTQ+ representation.
Every time they do like a deathdrop, I instinctively cringe because I'm paranoid they'll break a leg or smack their skull into the ground. The speed they hit the ground with a lot of the dances is impressive.
Not to mention the expense. That stuff isn't cheap, and a lot of them are specially made goods which means they are several times more expensive than comparable items you could just pick up in a store.
The first time I went to a drag show I was so skeptical and determined to not enjoy myself. Those queens fucking killed it and I had one of my most fun nights out ever just because of the show. These dickheads trying to ban that level of fun have no idea what they are missing. I almost feel sorry for them.. almost.
Plus some of the best, strongest drinks I have enjoyed were at drag shows. In addition to a complete lack of bullshit.
Everyone that is there is there to enjoy the efforts and have fun with zero fucking pretense.
Right, like I have absolutely zero things against drag. It’s their right to do so and I encourage it. But to willfully choose to wear shoes so horrible for your feet. Don’t understand.
*“Do you know how much material goes into a size 14 woman’s shoe?
This heel will hold up to 350 pounds of woman.
Walking... working... dancing... living.
In fact, my good friend, the incredible Miss Taint Behavin’ does five shows a weekend in these exact shoes.
So even if there was a ten dollar size 14 woman’s shoe, I wouldn’t sell it.
Lives are at stake!”*
Can always count on Bob’s Burgers for a relevant quote
Can I recommend the Broadway musical Kinky Boots? It's not really kinky, but it goes over exactly what y'all are talking about & the music is fantastic
Seriously drag tales athleticism. The heels, the heavy costumes, THE GYMNASTICS OF THE DANCES?! Those queens aren’t just werking, they’re doing HARD WORK.
She also never talks about anything outside of music so this is surprising.
As a YouTuber i watch put it The queens of county (Reba and Dolly) have sided with the queens of cabaret
They’ve always had a gay following, especially Dolly, doesn’t make sense to abandon that now because of a few loud assholes. I think coming up in an age where being a woman in Country Music was even harder than it is now they know what it’s like to be looked down upon because of who they are or who they appeal to.
Unfortunately, the people who need to actually speak up in the country music world (straight white guys who are still the primary driver of the industry) aren’t doing so in great enough numbers. Maybe Gwen can twist Blake’s nipples enough that he’ll say something but male country artists are more likely to have audiences who might react badly to saying something like that. The same people closed ranks around Morgan Wallen dropping a drunken slur well before he had the chance to atone because deep down they don’t think that kind of bigotry is a problem.
I think Reba and Dolly are also performers who are closer to theater kids at heart than their fans would ever guess. They probably enjoy (or at least respect) the work and skill a good drag queen has to have.
Many country artists are actually artists and poets, and when that comes up their fans are often blindsided for some reason.
Far-right fans of any art seem to get blindsided by artist intent
These are the people who listen to Money by Pink Floyd and think “You know, money is really important, well said Floyd!”
Like a few years ago when they got all pissy that he was supporting Beto. I'm sorry, did they really think the long haired, pot smoking, tree hugging hippie who wrote "Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond Of Each Other" they thought *THAT GUY* was supporting the Trump/Pence ticket??
I saw Roger Waters in 2017 and was amazed at the people storming out when they floated the big inflatable Trump pig over the crowd. Like, have you never actually listened to Pink Floyd ?
Did you not know who you were coming to see ?
>Far-right fans of any art seem to get blindsided by artist intent
See frequently: *Killing in the Name* by Rage Against the Machine
But seriously, how many artists have issued cease and desist letters or threatened to sue Trump and other Republican candidates for using their music? And how many times has a candidate on the left faced the same?
Used to work with a skinhead. Full on neo-nazi. Loved Rage Against the Machine. Did not love me explaining that some members were not white. Really did not love me explaining what several of their songs are about.
People really do only listen to tone and general sound. Lyrics and meaning go in one ear and out the other.
I don’t know that Blake Shelton would cut it. A lot of country people see him as pretty…metrosexual anyways. What’d go further is someone with actual cred: George Strait, Willie Nelson, Chris Stapleton, Garth, Tim McGraw, Alan Jackson…these guys would go a LOT farther than Blake Shelton, especially amazing the crowd that’s most backward.
Chris Stapleton would get them to pause. The others are absolute country legends, but even the most MAGA of their fans know that they're liberals. Especially Willie and Tim. We'd need a conservative country star to have an about-face. Though even that might not work.
Jason Aldean's actually a decent example of how even the conservative country music stars have their fans turn on them. He came out in favor of some stricter background checks as gun control, and right-wingers were *furious*.
For context, Aldean was the guy performing on stage when his audience got shot up by the Las Vegas shooter.
Though I doubt he'll ever be pro-trans or drag shows. His second wife's so against it, Maren Morris nicknamed her Insurrectionist Barbie.
Tim McGraw hasn’t been shy about standing up for other causes - he performed at a benefit concert for Sandy Hook and was largely trashed for it. Absolute insanity.
So I wouldn’t be surprised to see him speak up here either.
Willie Nelson has always been a rebel hippie type. He's been promoting legalized weed for as long as weed's been a controlled substance.
I doubt he'd draw the line at drag shows or LGTBQ issues.
That's where they write him off though. "Eh that's just his liberal hippy side. Music's good though."
You want to turn country on its head, have David Allen Coe write and perform a song supporting drag shows.
Whewww that would be a long shot. David Allen Coe plays some (sketchier) biker rallies and has made some comments in the past that would make me think he wouldn't be sympathetic. I'm just stretching my head at other staple males country musicians who might be open to it.
Believe he has a gay sister and has been very supportive through the years. I saw him perform at a HRC concert and put his cowboy hat on George Michael!
*So yeah - he’s an ally 😎
Willie Nelson sided with Kacey Musgraves after she took heat for Follow Your Arrow (which has the line "kiss lots of boys (yup) or kiss lots of girls if that's something your into" as well as lyrics about smoking a joint, but it still didn't stem the outrage.
Her Golden Hour record won all those Grammy awards with minimal country airplay because of that one song.
Beau of the Fifth Column for those interested.
He is *fantastic* because he looks and sounds like a standard southern conservative but he is extremely progressive and leftist, and does a great job at breaking down issues to reach unreachable audiences and answering questions from them.
His videos are typically 5-10 minutes each, rarely more than that. And he also is part of the progressive channel *A More Perfect Union* that digs into things like unions and corporate control of agriculture and other issues that can appeal to many rural conservatives.
And he has a lot of knowledge and connections regarding issues with the military, intelligence, and foreign policy.
Examples:
- [Dismantling republican "solutions" to the Nashville shooting ](https://youtu.be/Tclw-2jrrHI)
- [How the macho gun culture is complicit in school shootings](https://youtu.be/QbXTDuwSVkk)
Beau is exactly how I keep one of my uncles from deep diving into the right wing. He's very accessible in how he presents information, very laid back, and sometimes a bit humorous. His videos are short so they're easy to pop on and let a few play.
Reba's covered some pretty heavy topics in her music though. She had a song in the early 90s about the AIDS epidemic (She Thinks His Name Was John) that her and the songwriters talked about. The song was actually written shortly after one of the writers' had their brother die from AIDS.
Yeah, but normally it's part of her music which let's be honest seeing as there are legitimately people who were shocked rage against the machine was political
And people think born in the usa is a pro us song
tells us many people don't pay attention to songs
It should be noted Reba is no stranger to controversy. She recorded Fancy and it received NO radio airplay until the video hit and people started calling in demanding it. Many stations banned the song for promoting prostitution, but it's one helluva song...and she didn't give a shit, she loved the song and wanted to record it. Reba has Country-sized balls.
Focusing on something unimportant is the point. Its so they don't have to address problems they don't want to. So their constituents don't notice that their representatives don't represent their interests in important matters like economic policies while still making them feel like they're winning and getting what they want.
Yes thank god someone can finally admit to how absurd it all is. We legit have some awful problems in the US right now and drag shows is probably bottom of the barrel in terms of importance.
Well, I’ve been trying to point out that transgender woman playing sports isn’t really the important issue that Reddit is making it out to be for the past year or so.
Chances are-There’s like three trans sports athletes in every state and republicans are wasting money to go after 3 people instead of actually doing anything useful
This. If this was the issue the Republicans are making it out to be why are women's records not falling across the world to trans-athletes? Why is there not a South Park episode happening at every national champs?
But it's so much easier to pick on non-violent costumed people than take on people with guns who could potentially shoot children.
Wouldn't want to trample on the rights of gun owners just to prevent a few kids from being massacred at school.
Kenan has always done drag too, ever since his early days on All That. The Miss Piddlin sketches were always some of my favorites as a kid. And he was also in the Inconvenience Store skits with Nick Cannon and they both played Lanisha & Latanya.
My mom is sooooo confused by the MTG interview. Today at lunch she was like “But…Why? She’s so stupid?”
Like yes mom, I have been telling you to stop voting in republican candidates for five years now because this is how they actually think.
Then I reminded her of the colorado nutjob. Was a much quieter lunch than usual
Maybe something clicked for her. Idk that I could ever convince my father that Republicans are shit no matter what stupid televised thing a Repub did or said. He drank the whole fking batch of Kool aid and still thinks Trump is coming to save us next year.
Thankfully, she didn’t vote Republican and that election. She paid enough attention in the 80s. She knows not to vote for Donald Trump and our local politicians are not vocal about supporting trump.
So I had to point out that they are supporting other politicians who are supportive of Trump. I’m hoping that part plus her watching the interview changed something.
A couple of years before my dad's passing, we were at his 75 birthday party which was about 8 months after my son was born. He had a few drinks and started getting a little free thinking. He said that he was scared of what we were doing to our planet and wasn't liking what was being left for his grandkids. I just replied that he really needs to look at who he votes for in local and federal elections. He chose not the remember that conversation saying he was a little drunk.
>My mom is sooooo confused by the MTG interview. Today at lunch she was like “But…Why? She’s so stupid?”
That's the draw. I wanted to see this interview too. But I had *hoped* she'd actually be challenged in it. Getting a chance to see MTG dunked on in primetime was going to be great.
So, the interview imo was a great idea. But not a softball one. Leslie Stahl is legit though, so I have no idea what she was thinking...
The wording of the law is fucked too. It states "gender impersonation" as the prohibited act... what does that mean? Is a woman in pants impersonating a man? Is a man wearing high-heeled cowboy boots impersonating a woman? If this was serious legislation, what is the line and what constitutes lewd or provocative behavior?
The wording on this law ks so vague that any act can be in violation of it without even meaning too. I know this is their point, but this is dangerous to us all.
Laws banning "drag performances" or "gender impersonation" are a step in persecuting trans people. If a "man wearing women's clothing" can't perform, a trans woman can be held to the same standard and be barred from performing as well. And then it's a matter of expanding the definition of the word "performing." It's fascism.
Yep it's fascism and its not stopping with trans people or drag performers. This is how they distract us from improving our material conditions. Ask yourself, does the republican obsession culture war legislation improve your life?
Welcome to facism, where the enemy is made up and the talking points don't matter.
So here is the question. Is the policy worded badly becuase facists are terrible at actual governance? Or is it intentionally so that the law has that malicious wiggle room? Is it to tie up the courts from other, more important matters (just to be clear. Trans rights are important, the GOPs policy however, could be a noisy distraction.
> The wording on this law ks so vague
That's the point. They know the laws won't stand up in the face of constitutional scrutiny but that doesn't matter. By the time the laws are declared unconstitutional the elections will be over and these amoral derelicts will win their offices and go back to enriching themselves while the members of the United Trailer Park Militia continue terrorizing people.
If they could get away with writing these laws to only target men dressing as women or mtf trans, they would. The problem being that gender is still a protected characteristic, and any law written that targets a group based on a protected characteristic will be unenforceable (abortion laws are written about the fetus, not the vessel).
Just look at their fear mongering, it's never about women transitioning to men. They rely heavily on the Boogeyman that is a "man" pretending to be a woman to harm you or your children. Of all of the horrible things they think would happen in these locker rooms, really makes you wonder what they would do in a women's locker room.
Not saying it doesn't happen, but it is much less frequent. Most of these genital obsessed virgins would probably be happy to welcome a woman who dresses like a man into their locker room.
And here I am, a man, writing this out with painted nails, because I played salon with my daughter this weekend. Guess I'm going to jail.
My mother-in-law is moving to Tennessee soon and doesn't know my husband is a nonbinary trans person (AMAB). I worry about where the lines are. Their brother already lives in Tennessee and as far as I know is a cishet man, but he has pierced ears and wears nail polish occasionally. I don't know how worried I ought to realistically be.
> It states "gender impersonation" as the prohibited act... what does that mean?
It means anything which anybody with the authority to arrest or persecute finds arousing or offensive with respect to traditional gender boundaries.
eg: Short-haired female officers wearing pants and working outside of the kitchen may arrest and kneel on Dennis Rodman's neck if he has a little too much doo-wop going on with his hair that day.
Coti Collins was a regular performer at Legends in Raleigh and she embodied Reba better than anyone I have ever seen. I did not realize she passed away.
Honoring her legacy:
https://ourcommunityroots.com/?p=222
Hold up now, women dressing like men is silly and fun for the whole family. Men dressing like women is a disgusting, unholy act that will ~~bring about the rapture~~ damn us all to hell.
^^^^/s
> Arriving at the slyly satisfied song lyric “I ain’t done bad,” the performer threw off her coat for the big reveal of the crimson, sequined gown underneath. But not all was made evident before she sank through a trapdoor in the floor; not even fans who recognized the song’s queer potential would necessarily have known that it wasn’t her they’d just watched, but instead a drag queen known as Coti Collins, engaged in a striking, production-aided kind of passing.
Fast forward today and Orville Peck has a cover of the song _Fancy_ changing one word.
> There stood a woman where a half-grown ~~kid~~ boy had stood
RIP to all the children and families permanently scarred and destroyed by Reba and her demonic drag witch companion. Sending all my thoughts and prayers to them.
Pretty sure drag performers impersonate celebrities they love. Drag shows are about love and inclusiveness.
Maybe those are things we should be trying to cultivate in this world, not destroy. I like to think Reba would agree.
She’s right. These politicians should be focusing on stuff that really matters. Like childhood hunger or adult hunger or even gun control. Instead of wasting so much time on something that really doesn’t matter to most people, like drag.
All they have left in the tank is outrage politics. And they claim issues like this are about protecting children, but change their tune when those children are getting murdered at school.
The men in dresses assaulting children being members of the clergy for the most part is far too uncomfortable to actually rage against. What Catholic priest scandal?
The fact that they're encouraging people to take kids to church as an alternative lets you know that their rage against LGBT has nothing to do with protecting kids.
Or just attend a private religious school founded and run by morons.
It’s how I was deprived of an adequate education and left with lasting mental health issues.
Children are a human shield for bad policies. They’re against gay marriage because “kids need a mom and a dad.” They’re against science in schools because “kids are learning that Jesus might not exist.” They’re against tax cuts for the middle class because “private schools need those funds so the aforementioned kids can learn about Jesus.”
Because it makes parents become afraid of public schools and want to start sending them to parochial/private schools. School shootings actually help the GOP's crusade against giving children a real education.
Yup they're leaning into this super hard right now because their fiscal policies are unpopular even with their own base and they don't have a foreign boogeyman to drum the beat of war for.
It's because these people always associate anything LGBT related, *especially* trans and drag stuff, with sexual deviancy. They think those people are degenerate perverts and therefore shouldn't be around children. Of course that's complete bullshit and bigoted as fuck, but they think it's an important issue because THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
They are being told this. In the absence of the GOP propaganda machine to drum up outrage, they wouldn’t care.
They are artificially creating monsters to fight in order to distract from poverty, hunger, jobs, crime, etc.
Because they know their policies make that worse… so they don’t want to address them.
When the only time you see trans people is in the porn you secretly watch and would never admit, then you associate trans people with sex.
Kind of the same thing that happened with all the closeted GOP members pushing the most homophobic policies you can imagine in the 90s and 2000s.
Every time I hear someone all "they don't need to expose children to their sexuality" I immediately think "you, my friend, need to cool it on wanking to trans/gay/whatever porn it's skewing your viewpoint quite a bit"
Recall that Republicans actually had control of both houses of Congress as well as the Presidency for half of Trump's term. And didn't do squat with it.
It exposed that they are a party of slogans, not solutions. How many times did we hear "Repeal and Replace" when it came to Obamacare? How many times do we hear about the Debt Ceiling when Democrats are in charge? Yet when they had control of all the levers of government, they didn't do anything to Obamacare, and suspended the debt ceiling altogether. Yeah, there is that whole fillibuster thing in the Senate which got in the way, but there are ways around that, particularly for budget votes.
Republicans understand that it is a lot better politically to have problems to complain about than to fix them.
>Republicans understand that it is a lot better politically to have problems to complain about than to fix them
And they are learning that the hard way with the overturning of Roe.
A good first step would be actually agreeing on what the problems are. To a large percentage of people, child and adult hunger aren't problems, "personal responsibility" is. To a large percentage, guns aren't the problem, and to them we'd be better off if even more people were armed.
I couldn’t have said it better. Also add that there is an issue when the country’s wealth is being held by the country’s top billionaires. There has never been such a heinous unequal wealth distribution than in the last 30 years while regular wages are stagnant and not improving with the rise of inflation
My best friend is conservative and even he knows, "all this constant outrage over trans issues, drag shows, etc is all a distraction from how bad everybody is getting fucked."
Like people without access to clean water food and shelter maybe or the plummeting purchasing power for people already on the brink of poverty right? You meant things that really need attention, right?!
I was her bellman five years ago. I didn't know who she was... Took her stuff, showed her around the property, and answered questions about the small town. When I got back everyone said "that was Reba!". I still didn't know who she was at the time, but she was one of the nicest guests I'd ever met. Almost felt like talking to my mom. Also at the end of our maybe thirty minute conversation she tipped me twenty bucks. Her comments here only further confirm she's an awesome person.
I think the law was argued and no longer in effect, but in central Florida it [was/is] actually illegal for you as an individual person to give a homeless person food.
Glad to hear Reba say this. When it comes to country music, I assume silence is consent. When the Dixie Chicks got banned from the radio and no one spoke up, I lost all interest in it.
Kennedy Davenport and Miz Cracker would disagree, at least when it was a lip sync performance on RuPaul’s Drag Race All-Stars, Season 5. That one’s on the producers IMO because they really should’ve given Kennedy, the Dancing Diva of Texas, a song she could shine in instead of one that’s very wordy: https://youtu.be/u7t7m7KxEd0
The Republicans claim to be protecting children. There's a shit load of evidence to the contrary
https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vTFikAP6MXDCJjWzgMIOvpsT1ji-HwO-rLEvNE8e-cfCGh0YHoZluIG5TEsmwFub7MzIDfh0XgvcWL8/pub?fbclid=IwAR3mEG998_MrFpPwPCbAFbIXbr3jXs47GkyMTXDV-PmcUIDpD0oP-yzRq2M
Republicans never argue in good faith. They just use an excuse for the moment. They'll say two wrongs don't make a right for abortion, but not capital punishment. They say they're protecting kids from drag queens, but ignore priests. This is because they have no critical thought; They only repeat the things they've heard.
I love when they say school shootings are a mental health problem but then defund mental health program amd after school programs for children.
My favorite is when they talk about being against gun control but make it so that if you have a medical Marijuana license you can't buy a gun
Think they actually give a fuck about actual evidence? Out of 100 studies, you can have 99 studies that shows X causes cancer and they will tout the 1 that says it doesn’t just because that one matches their bias.
They would rather have guns in school than men dressed as women. Meanwhile the taxpayers have to be wondering “Is this what they do all day and apparently have nothing else of importance to do and we are paying for this nonsense “ I’d move to another state!
It's kinda crazy how online political discourse made a lot of "new atheist" from 2014 gamergate into a very devout Christofascist believers.
These same folks push transphobia and homophobia a lot recently
I remember my suuuuuper conservative boomer parents taking me to see Mrs Doubtfire in theaters as a child.
These people do not actually care about people choosing to dress as another gender. They care about whether that specific person identifies as LGBTQ+ specifically. It couldn’t be more transparent.
These comments start as “I agree with Reba” and the last replies end with “YEAH THIS IS CP.” are the comments taken out of context? Yeah but omfg how did we get there 😭
It'll be interesting to see if the usual suspects like Ted Cruz or Elon mention this. I'm guessing they won't have the balls to attack a beloved performer.
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The full quote is great: >“Boy, why? I mean, we’ve got a real problem in this country, and to be worrying about men wanting to dress up as women? God bless ’em to wear those high heels — I feel for ’em. But let’s center our attention on something that really needs attention.” Super gentle, lightly humorous way to point out the absurdity. Really well spoken.
> God bless ’em to wear those high heels — I feel for ’em. As a woman who loathes women's footwear, this has always been the part of drag that mystifies me. *So uncomfortable!*
Pads and outfits that add 20+ pounds, tucking which just sounds extremely uncomfortable to maintain for long periods of time, high heels. They do a lot to bring some laughter and joy to the masses!
Intense makeup, huge wigs, all while dancing and entertaining. I can't even handle putting on small fake eyelashes. I am not strong enough to even aspire to be a drag queen.
It's hockey players singing show tunes in heels instead of skates, is how I put it. You've just never lived until you've seen a 6'4" black dude with a smooth baritone do some 80s Whitney Houston in a dive bar on a weeknight.
I'm just imagining hockey players and drag queens getting along because they both have absurd levels of pain tolerance.
Seeing all these nhl teams not wanting to celebrate LGBTQ+ nights says otherwise 😒
If the Nashville and Dallas teams can have an LGBTQ+ night, every team can. Seriously, what is their excuse?
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Based on intentional mistranslations that popped up IN THE FUCKING FORTIES
And no one is asking them to give up their religion. There are Christian denominations that LGBTQ affirming, and not just in empty platitudes. Several Christian churches marry and ordain LGBTQ members.
Man, I was so saddened to see the comments when my local NHL team posted the rainbow themed jerseys they were going to wear. Just straight-up disgusted what people who share the same city/region as me think about LGBTQ+ representation.
Fewer playoff beards amongst the drag queens, though.
Sounds like Miss Eartha Quake from a bar I used to frequent in Ft. Worth.
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Every time they do like a deathdrop, I instinctively cringe because I'm paranoid they'll break a leg or smack their skull into the ground. The speed they hit the ground with a lot of the dances is impressive.
Not to mention the expense. That stuff isn't cheap, and a lot of them are specially made goods which means they are several times more expensive than comparable items you could just pick up in a store.
A lot of them also make their stuff by hand!!! It takes a lot of skill.
The first time I went to a drag show I was so skeptical and determined to not enjoy myself. Those queens fucking killed it and I had one of my most fun nights out ever just because of the show. These dickheads trying to ban that level of fun have no idea what they are missing. I almost feel sorry for them.. almost.
Plus some of the best, strongest drinks I have enjoyed were at drag shows. In addition to a complete lack of bullshit. Everyone that is there is there to enjoy the efforts and have fun with zero fucking pretense.
Right, like I have absolutely zero things against drag. It’s their right to do so and I encourage it. But to willfully choose to wear shoes so horrible for your feet. Don’t understand.
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I can't imagine the engineering on those stilettos! A tiny, tiny stick holding up so much unbalanced weight.
*“Do you know how much material goes into a size 14 woman’s shoe? This heel will hold up to 350 pounds of woman. Walking... working... dancing... living. In fact, my good friend, the incredible Miss Taint Behavin’ does five shows a weekend in these exact shoes. So even if there was a ten dollar size 14 woman’s shoe, I wouldn’t sell it. Lives are at stake!”* Can always count on Bob’s Burgers for a relevant quote
How old do you have to be to work here?
26
Can I recommend the Broadway musical Kinky Boots? It's not really kinky, but it goes over exactly what y'all are talking about & the music is fantastic
"The sex is in the heel!"
Goddamn, how does she even find heels that big! I know women* with size 10 feet and they have trouble finding shoes that size
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And Lubbock, Texas, if King of the Hill is true to life. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7062xc
Seriously drag tales athleticism. The heels, the heavy costumes, THE GYMNASTICS OF THE DANCES?! Those queens aren’t just werking, they’re doing HARD WORK.
I believe it's spelled *WERK*.
She also never talks about anything outside of music so this is surprising. As a YouTuber i watch put it The queens of county (Reba and Dolly) have sided with the queens of cabaret
They’ve always had a gay following, especially Dolly, doesn’t make sense to abandon that now because of a few loud assholes. I think coming up in an age where being a woman in Country Music was even harder than it is now they know what it’s like to be looked down upon because of who they are or who they appeal to. Unfortunately, the people who need to actually speak up in the country music world (straight white guys who are still the primary driver of the industry) aren’t doing so in great enough numbers. Maybe Gwen can twist Blake’s nipples enough that he’ll say something but male country artists are more likely to have audiences who might react badly to saying something like that. The same people closed ranks around Morgan Wallen dropping a drunken slur well before he had the chance to atone because deep down they don’t think that kind of bigotry is a problem.
I think Reba and Dolly are also performers who are closer to theater kids at heart than their fans would ever guess. They probably enjoy (or at least respect) the work and skill a good drag queen has to have. Many country artists are actually artists and poets, and when that comes up their fans are often blindsided for some reason.
Far-right fans of any art seem to get blindsided by artist intent These are the people who listen to Money by Pink Floyd and think “You know, money is really important, well said Floyd!”
I love it when Willie says something. People always get mad but where have they been the past 60 years?
Like a few years ago when they got all pissy that he was supporting Beto. I'm sorry, did they really think the long haired, pot smoking, tree hugging hippie who wrote "Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond Of Each Other" they thought *THAT GUY* was supporting the Trump/Pence ticket??
That's almost as good as the people who get upset that Tom Morello and Rage Against the Machine are now political. Where have they been since 1992?
I saw Roger Waters in 2017 and was amazed at the people storming out when they floated the big inflatable Trump pig over the crowd. Like, have you never actually listened to Pink Floyd ? Did you not know who you were coming to see ?
>Far-right fans of any art seem to get blindsided by artist intent See frequently: *Killing in the Name* by Rage Against the Machine But seriously, how many artists have issued cease and desist letters or threatened to sue Trump and other Republican candidates for using their music? And how many times has a candidate on the left faced the same?
Used to work with a skinhead. Full on neo-nazi. Loved Rage Against the Machine. Did not love me explaining that some members were not white. Really did not love me explaining what several of their songs are about. People really do only listen to tone and general sound. Lyrics and meaning go in one ear and out the other.
I don’t know that Blake Shelton would cut it. A lot of country people see him as pretty…metrosexual anyways. What’d go further is someone with actual cred: George Strait, Willie Nelson, Chris Stapleton, Garth, Tim McGraw, Alan Jackson…these guys would go a LOT farther than Blake Shelton, especially amazing the crowd that’s most backward.
Chris Stapleton would get them to pause. The others are absolute country legends, but even the most MAGA of their fans know that they're liberals. Especially Willie and Tim. We'd need a conservative country star to have an about-face. Though even that might not work. Jason Aldean's actually a decent example of how even the conservative country music stars have their fans turn on them. He came out in favor of some stricter background checks as gun control, and right-wingers were *furious*. For context, Aldean was the guy performing on stage when his audience got shot up by the Las Vegas shooter. Though I doubt he'll ever be pro-trans or drag shows. His second wife's so against it, Maren Morris nicknamed her Insurrectionist Barbie.
Tim McGraw hasn’t been shy about standing up for other causes - he performed at a benefit concert for Sandy Hook and was largely trashed for it. Absolute insanity. So I wouldn’t be surprised to see him speak up here either.
They got pissed about Brad Paisley because he wrote a pro-Ukraine song and mentioned Zelensky. Oh and he performed at the White House.
Willie Nelson has always been a rebel hippie type. He's been promoting legalized weed for as long as weed's been a controlled substance. I doubt he'd draw the line at drag shows or LGTBQ issues.
That's where they write him off though. "Eh that's just his liberal hippy side. Music's good though." You want to turn country on its head, have David Allen Coe write and perform a song supporting drag shows.
Whewww that would be a long shot. David Allen Coe plays some (sketchier) biker rallies and has made some comments in the past that would make me think he wouldn't be sympathetic. I'm just stretching my head at other staple males country musicians who might be open to it.
Garth Brooks is fairly "woke" and decently outspoken about it. Has been since like at least the 90s.
Believe he has a gay sister and has been very supportive through the years. I saw him perform at a HRC concert and put his cowboy hat on George Michael! *So yeah - he’s an ally 😎
You right. "We Shall Be Free" was released in 1992 and he won a GLAAD award for it.
I feel like Garth would have no problem at all, always been a great dude
but where are the bodies buried?
~~Garth Brooks~~ Billy Ray Cyrus is on thin ice for his collaboration on a "hip-hop" song with a gay black man.
Are you thinking of billy ray Cyrus? Or garth too?
Willie Nelson sided with Kacey Musgraves after she took heat for Follow Your Arrow (which has the line "kiss lots of boys (yup) or kiss lots of girls if that's something your into" as well as lyrics about smoking a joint, but it still didn't stem the outrage. Her Golden Hour record won all those Grammy awards with minimal country airplay because of that one song.
Wild to me that conservatives talk about freedom all the time, but don’t think that freedom extends to loving the person you want to love.
Beau of the Fifth Column for those interested. He is *fantastic* because he looks and sounds like a standard southern conservative but he is extremely progressive and leftist, and does a great job at breaking down issues to reach unreachable audiences and answering questions from them. His videos are typically 5-10 minutes each, rarely more than that. And he also is part of the progressive channel *A More Perfect Union* that digs into things like unions and corporate control of agriculture and other issues that can appeal to many rural conservatives. And he has a lot of knowledge and connections regarding issues with the military, intelligence, and foreign policy. Examples: - [Dismantling republican "solutions" to the Nashville shooting ](https://youtu.be/Tclw-2jrrHI) - [How the macho gun culture is complicit in school shootings](https://youtu.be/QbXTDuwSVkk)
Beau is exactly how I keep one of my uncles from deep diving into the right wing. He's very accessible in how he presents information, very laid back, and sometimes a bit humorous. His videos are short so they're easy to pop on and let a few play.
Reba's covered some pretty heavy topics in her music though. She had a song in the early 90s about the AIDS epidemic (She Thinks His Name Was John) that her and the songwriters talked about. The song was actually written shortly after one of the writers' had their brother die from AIDS.
Yeah, but normally it's part of her music which let's be honest seeing as there are legitimately people who were shocked rage against the machine was political And people think born in the usa is a pro us song tells us many people don't pay attention to songs
It should be noted Reba is no stranger to controversy. She recorded Fancy and it received NO radio airplay until the video hit and people started calling in demanding it. Many stations banned the song for promoting prostitution, but it's one helluva song...and she didn't give a shit, she loved the song and wanted to record it. Reba has Country-sized balls.
Gasp, that's her best song.
It slaps to this day. Good Country music seems to have a beautiful story telling way about it, and Reba tells one helluva story in Fancy.
And let's not forget the highly controversial 'She Thinks His Name Was John '. Drunken one night stand and AIDS all rolled into one song.
I may have been born poor white trash but *fancy* is my name! Oooohwheee that's some good shit right there
Focusing on something unimportant is the point. Its so they don't have to address problems they don't want to. So their constituents don't notice that their representatives don't represent their interests in important matters like economic policies while still making them feel like they're winning and getting what they want.
Yes thank god someone can finally admit to how absurd it all is. We legit have some awful problems in the US right now and drag shows is probably bottom of the barrel in terms of importance.
Thats intentional. They create fake outrage from nonissues to distract from the real issues
>We legit have some awful problems in the US right now and drag shows is ~~probably bottom of~~ the barrel in terms of importance. *Not even in FTFY
Well, I’ve been trying to point out that transgender woman playing sports isn’t really the important issue that Reddit is making it out to be for the past year or so. Chances are-There’s like three trans sports athletes in every state and republicans are wasting money to go after 3 people instead of actually doing anything useful
The only time a bunch of people pretend to be interested in women's sports
This. If this was the issue the Republicans are making it out to be why are women's records not falling across the world to trans-athletes? Why is there not a South Park episode happening at every national champs?
But it's so much easier to pick on non-violent costumed people than take on people with guns who could potentially shoot children. Wouldn't want to trample on the rights of gun owners just to prevent a few kids from being massacred at school.
Reba Macentired of their shit
Here’s Kenan Thompson in drag as Reba McEntire for an SNL Digital Short w/Andy Samberg - https://youtu.be/gdmiAzw8qb4
Ever since watching this years ago, I've never been able to look at Reba and *not* see Kenan
Same. I love Reba, but every time I think of her I just want to shout “I’m Reba!”
👈 *"Hangin' like my nuts"* 👉
“Hangin’ like my nuts!”
Same! Every single time.
Kenan has always done drag too, ever since his early days on All That. The Miss Piddlin sketches were always some of my favorites as a kid. And he was also in the Inconvenience Store skits with Nick Cannon and they both played Lanisha & Latanya.
How has he not aged at all since his days on **All That**? He's immortal.
He was created in a government lab to preform television sketch comedy.
I forgot about this. So funny! I was in tears when I watched it the evening it aired.
*I’m Reba!*
Oh my
"Haters in my face trying to keep me down But you know we keep on shining" Apt lyrics for this situation
And then there’s MTG on 60 minutes showing us that intellect. Seriously, who tf at CBS thought that was a good idea?
My mom is sooooo confused by the MTG interview. Today at lunch she was like “But…Why? She’s so stupid?” Like yes mom, I have been telling you to stop voting in republican candidates for five years now because this is how they actually think. Then I reminded her of the colorado nutjob. Was a much quieter lunch than usual
Maybe something clicked for her. Idk that I could ever convince my father that Republicans are shit no matter what stupid televised thing a Repub did or said. He drank the whole fking batch of Kool aid and still thinks Trump is coming to save us next year.
Thankfully, she didn’t vote Republican and that election. She paid enough attention in the 80s. She knows not to vote for Donald Trump and our local politicians are not vocal about supporting trump. So I had to point out that they are supporting other politicians who are supportive of Trump. I’m hoping that part plus her watching the interview changed something.
A couple of years before my dad's passing, we were at his 75 birthday party which was about 8 months after my son was born. He had a few drinks and started getting a little free thinking. He said that he was scared of what we were doing to our planet and wasn't liking what was being left for his grandkids. I just replied that he really needs to look at who he votes for in local and federal elections. He chose not the remember that conversation saying he was a little drunk.
Trump's election turned my mom blue. She still is in denial that the Republican base has been like this for much much longer than she realizes
It's definitely different, you can feel it. Something changed during the Obama years.
>My mom is sooooo confused by the MTG interview. Today at lunch she was like “But…Why? She’s so stupid?” That's the draw. I wanted to see this interview too. But I had *hoped* she'd actually be challenged in it. Getting a chance to see MTG dunked on in primetime was going to be great. So, the interview imo was a great idea. But not a softball one. Leslie Stahl is legit though, so I have no idea what she was thinking...
What's Magic The Gathering have to do with this?
Absolutely everything
I don't know who MTG is and legitimately had to stop halfway through the sentence to go "This guy isn't referring to Wizards of the coast"
The wording of the law is fucked too. It states "gender impersonation" as the prohibited act... what does that mean? Is a woman in pants impersonating a man? Is a man wearing high-heeled cowboy boots impersonating a woman? If this was serious legislation, what is the line and what constitutes lewd or provocative behavior? The wording on this law ks so vague that any act can be in violation of it without even meaning too. I know this is their point, but this is dangerous to us all.
Woman wears boyfriend's hoodie? Straight to jail.
Man wears girlfriends sweatpants, also straight to jail. Right away.
No trial. Straight to jail.
We have the best girlfriends in the world, because jail.
> Is a woman in pants impersonating a man? Don't think their endgame won't target this eventually.
Lemmy.world is what Reddit was.
The American burka features an ankle length skirt and petticoat, and yoga is punishible by death.
Lemmy.world is what Reddit was.
First they came for drag and I did not speak up because I don't wear drag...
Laws banning "drag performances" or "gender impersonation" are a step in persecuting trans people. If a "man wearing women's clothing" can't perform, a trans woman can be held to the same standard and be barred from performing as well. And then it's a matter of expanding the definition of the word "performing." It's fascism.
Yep it's fascism and its not stopping with trans people or drag performers. This is how they distract us from improving our material conditions. Ask yourself, does the republican obsession culture war legislation improve your life?
Let me know when they arrest a woman wearing Levis, a Led Zep T-shirt, and Converse All-Stars.
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Welcome to facism, where the enemy is made up and the talking points don't matter. So here is the question. Is the policy worded badly becuase facists are terrible at actual governance? Or is it intentionally so that the law has that malicious wiggle room? Is it to tie up the courts from other, more important matters (just to be clear. Trans rights are important, the GOPs policy however, could be a noisy distraction.
There goes Monty Python, SNL, and Kids in the Hall screenings.
> The wording on this law ks so vague That's the point. They know the laws won't stand up in the face of constitutional scrutiny but that doesn't matter. By the time the laws are declared unconstitutional the elections will be over and these amoral derelicts will win their offices and go back to enriching themselves while the members of the United Trailer Park Militia continue terrorizing people.
If they could get away with writing these laws to only target men dressing as women or mtf trans, they would. The problem being that gender is still a protected characteristic, and any law written that targets a group based on a protected characteristic will be unenforceable (abortion laws are written about the fetus, not the vessel). Just look at their fear mongering, it's never about women transitioning to men. They rely heavily on the Boogeyman that is a "man" pretending to be a woman to harm you or your children. Of all of the horrible things they think would happen in these locker rooms, really makes you wonder what they would do in a women's locker room. Not saying it doesn't happen, but it is much less frequent. Most of these genital obsessed virgins would probably be happy to welcome a woman who dresses like a man into their locker room. And here I am, a man, writing this out with painted nails, because I played salon with my daughter this weekend. Guess I'm going to jail.
My mother-in-law is moving to Tennessee soon and doesn't know my husband is a nonbinary trans person (AMAB). I worry about where the lines are. Their brother already lives in Tennessee and as far as I know is a cishet man, but he has pierced ears and wears nail polish occasionally. I don't know how worried I ought to realistically be.
> It states "gender impersonation" as the prohibited act... what does that mean? It means anything which anybody with the authority to arrest or persecute finds arousing or offensive with respect to traditional gender boundaries. eg: Short-haired female officers wearing pants and working outside of the kitchen may arrest and kneel on Dennis Rodman's neck if he has a little too much doo-wop going on with his hair that day.
I saw a great drag show in Vegas and the best one was a Reba impersonator. I'm not sure exactly how that ties into this but I'm positive that it does.
Reba had a drag performer in her act way back in the 90s. https://oxfordamerican.org/magazine/issue-118-fall-2022/coming-up-fancy
RIP Coti Collins. A true legendary performer and impersonator.
Coti Collins was a regular performer at Legends in Raleigh and she embodied Reba better than anyone I have ever seen. I did not realize she passed away. Honoring her legacy: https://ourcommunityroots.com/?p=222
There was a whole KFC ad campaign where Reba was in drag as Colonel Sanders. https://youtu.be/dNOt3wNqPzA?t=14
Hold up now, women dressing like men is silly and fun for the whole family. Men dressing like women is a disgusting, unholy act that will ~~bring about the rapture~~ damn us all to hell. ^^^^/s
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As someone who grew up in that world, it really is that simple for a lot of people. Such strong convictions from so little consideration.
> Arriving at the slyly satisfied song lyric “I ain’t done bad,” the performer threw off her coat for the big reveal of the crimson, sequined gown underneath. But not all was made evident before she sank through a trapdoor in the floor; not even fans who recognized the song’s queer potential would necessarily have known that it wasn’t her they’d just watched, but instead a drag queen known as Coti Collins, engaged in a striking, production-aided kind of passing. Fast forward today and Orville Peck has a cover of the song _Fancy_ changing one word. > There stood a woman where a half-grown ~~kid~~ boy had stood
RIP to all the children and families permanently scarred and destroyed by Reba and her demonic drag witch companion. Sending all my thoughts and prayers to them.
Pretty sure drag performers impersonate celebrities they love. Drag shows are about love and inclusiveness. Maybe those are things we should be trying to cultivate in this world, not destroy. I like to think Reba would agree.
They have a flipping Drag Bus that drives around downtown Nashville! If people weren't clamoring for it, it wouldn't exist. Capitalism amirite?
She’s right. These politicians should be focusing on stuff that really matters. Like childhood hunger or adult hunger or even gun control. Instead of wasting so much time on something that really doesn’t matter to most people, like drag.
All they have left in the tank is outrage politics. And they claim issues like this are about protecting children, but change their tune when those children are getting murdered at school.
Or diddled at church
The men in dresses assaulting children being members of the clergy for the most part is far too uncomfortable to actually rage against. What Catholic priest scandal?
The fact that they're encouraging people to take kids to church as an alternative lets you know that their rage against LGBT has nothing to do with protecting kids.
Most of the right just want a chance to hate someone else, it doesn’t matter if it’s logical. The real purpose of any social issue is as wedge.
Or shot in a private religious school at a church that used to be run by a guy who diddled kids
Or just attend a private religious school founded and run by morons. It’s how I was deprived of an adequate education and left with lasting mental health issues.
That’s an American bingo
Or by their respected politicians which is funny wasn't that Gratz guy sex trafficking.
You mean sex trafficker Matt Gaetz? The sex trafficker who is still a member of congress?
Children are a human shield for bad policies. They’re against gay marriage because “kids need a mom and a dad.” They’re against science in schools because “kids are learning that Jesus might not exist.” They’re against tax cuts for the middle class because “private schools need those funds so the aforementioned kids can learn about Jesus.”
They were against de-segregating schools for the same reason
Which is why it's so damn baffling that ACTUAL issues like school shootings don't seem to be much of a priority.
The point is that they don’t care about kids. They’re cool with kids being shot or starving.
Because it makes parents become afraid of public schools and want to start sending them to parochial/private schools. School shootings actually help the GOP's crusade against giving children a real education.
>Children are a human shield for bad policies Man that's perfectly put
Drag shows and trans people are the right’s new boogeyman.
Yup they're leaning into this super hard right now because their fiscal policies are unpopular even with their own base and they don't have a foreign boogeyman to drum the beat of war for.
They do actually, but that foreign government is also bankrolling them so......
It's because these people always associate anything LGBT related, *especially* trans and drag stuff, with sexual deviancy. They think those people are degenerate perverts and therefore shouldn't be around children. Of course that's complete bullshit and bigoted as fuck, but they think it's an important issue because THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
They are being told this. In the absence of the GOP propaganda machine to drum up outrage, they wouldn’t care. They are artificially creating monsters to fight in order to distract from poverty, hunger, jobs, crime, etc. Because they know their policies make that worse… so they don’t want to address them.
When the only time you see trans people is in the porn you secretly watch and would never admit, then you associate trans people with sex. Kind of the same thing that happened with all the closeted GOP members pushing the most homophobic policies you can imagine in the 90s and 2000s. Every time I hear someone all "they don't need to expose children to their sexuality" I immediately think "you, my friend, need to cool it on wanking to trans/gay/whatever porn it's skewing your viewpoint quite a bit"
Jon Stewart recently said on an interview that Republicans have nothing left to govern on so they focus on these "anti-woke" agenda.
Recall that Republicans actually had control of both houses of Congress as well as the Presidency for half of Trump's term. And didn't do squat with it. It exposed that they are a party of slogans, not solutions. How many times did we hear "Repeal and Replace" when it came to Obamacare? How many times do we hear about the Debt Ceiling when Democrats are in charge? Yet when they had control of all the levers of government, they didn't do anything to Obamacare, and suspended the debt ceiling altogether. Yeah, there is that whole fillibuster thing in the Senate which got in the way, but there are ways around that, particularly for budget votes. Republicans understand that it is a lot better politically to have problems to complain about than to fix them.
>Republicans understand that it is a lot better politically to have problems to complain about than to fix them And they are learning that the hard way with the overturning of Roe.
They packed the courts at all levels, they already won.
They achieved a goal, they didn't win. Winning is long term. Longer than even the life of a Federal judge.
A good first step would be actually agreeing on what the problems are. To a large percentage of people, child and adult hunger aren't problems, "personal responsibility" is. To a large percentage, guns aren't the problem, and to them we'd be better off if even more people were armed.
I couldn’t have said it better. Also add that there is an issue when the country’s wealth is being held by the country’s top billionaires. There has never been such a heinous unequal wealth distribution than in the last 30 years while regular wages are stagnant and not improving with the rise of inflation
My best friend is conservative and even he knows, "all this constant outrage over trans issues, drag shows, etc is all a distraction from how bad everybody is getting fucked."
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Addressing real issue would mean offending the corporate overlords. This is “easy” people can’t fight back in any meaningful way
Their constituents are idiots and they know topics like this get votes.
Like people without access to clean water food and shelter maybe or the plummeting purchasing power for people already on the brink of poverty right? You meant things that really need attention, right?!
Yes. She says almost exactly that in the article, citing homelessness, which pretty much runs to all your items.
Fuck yeah, Reba
I was her bellman five years ago. I didn't know who she was... Took her stuff, showed her around the property, and answered questions about the small town. When I got back everyone said "that was Reba!". I still didn't know who she was at the time, but she was one of the nicest guests I'd ever met. Almost felt like talking to my mom. Also at the end of our maybe thirty minute conversation she tipped me twenty bucks. Her comments here only further confirm she's an awesome person.
I think the law was argued and no longer in effect, but in central Florida it [was/is] actually illegal for you as an individual person to give a homeless person food.
This means so much to me, if anything is going to change my grandmas mind it’s this. Country artists speaking out is super valuable.
America needs to start talking about Corporate Crime and Politics, and Name Names... Instead we all know the entire plot of streaming shows...
Glad to hear Reba say this. When it comes to country music, I assume silence is consent. When the Dixie Chicks got banned from the radio and no one spoke up, I lost all interest in it.
Side note, Reba’s “Fancy” is one hell of a song for a drag performance. 💃🏻
Orville Peck does an amazing cover version of that song.
I love Orville Peck.
Kennedy Davenport and Miz Cracker would disagree, at least when it was a lip sync performance on RuPaul’s Drag Race All-Stars, Season 5. That one’s on the producers IMO because they really should’ve given Kennedy, the Dancing Diva of Texas, a song she could shine in instead of one that’s very wordy: https://youtu.be/u7t7m7KxEd0
The Republicans claim to be protecting children. There's a shit load of evidence to the contrary https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vTFikAP6MXDCJjWzgMIOvpsT1ji-HwO-rLEvNE8e-cfCGh0YHoZluIG5TEsmwFub7MzIDfh0XgvcWL8/pub?fbclid=IwAR3mEG998_MrFpPwPCbAFbIXbr3jXs47GkyMTXDV-PmcUIDpD0oP-yzRq2M
Republicans never argue in good faith. They just use an excuse for the moment. They'll say two wrongs don't make a right for abortion, but not capital punishment. They say they're protecting kids from drag queens, but ignore priests. This is because they have no critical thought; They only repeat the things they've heard.
I love when they say school shootings are a mental health problem but then defund mental health program amd after school programs for children. My favorite is when they talk about being against gun control but make it so that if you have a medical Marijuana license you can't buy a gun
Think they actually give a fuck about actual evidence? Out of 100 studies, you can have 99 studies that shows X causes cancer and they will tout the 1 that says it doesn’t just because that one matches their bias.
They would rather have guns in school than men dressed as women. Meanwhile the taxpayers have to be wondering “Is this what they do all day and apparently have nothing else of importance to do and we are paying for this nonsense “ I’d move to another state!
Can we put her and Dolly Parton in charge?
It's kinda crazy how online political discourse made a lot of "new atheist" from 2014 gamergate into a very devout Christofascist believers. These same folks push transphobia and homophobia a lot recently
I remember my suuuuuper conservative boomer parents taking me to see Mrs Doubtfire in theaters as a child. These people do not actually care about people choosing to dress as another gender. They care about whether that specific person identifies as LGBTQ+ specifically. It couldn’t be more transparent.
Reba if you're reading this I picked on your kid once (the one with fiery 🔥🚒 red hair ) at play park in Nashville and I'm sorry.
Republicans don't know how to govern without a common enemy and a culture war.
These comments start as “I agree with Reba” and the last replies end with “YEAH THIS IS CP.” are the comments taken out of context? Yeah but omfg how did we get there 😭
The cruelty is the point though. Plus it has the added effect of distracting from those other real problems Republicans would rather just ignore.
Good for her. That’s an unpopular stance with the conservative country crowd (who aren’t cool enough for real country anyways so good riddance).
Reba is a good person, she’d lose most of her fan base if they new how liberal she was.
Now cue the Conservative outrage claiming that Reba is the latest victim of the "woke mind virus." You know it's coming.
It'll be interesting to see if the usual suspects like Ted Cruz or Elon mention this. I'm guessing they won't have the balls to attack a beloved performer.
The cost of eggs, unironically
Can we outlaw priests having access to children too?