I mean the US is a deeply patriarchal society that has normalized and enabled abusive patriarchs in the homes. It stands to reason that the highest office in the US is a reflection of what its people view as the position of father.
It’s not unique to Trump, but it’s certainly the most open-faced. His supporters go on like insufferable kids, trying to stay on his good side and celebrating him for enabling their worst impulses.
But the libs have done it too, Daddy Biden, Daddy Cuomo, Tim Waltz, etc. Even Kamala had maternal traits imposed onto her, but only in relation to her running mate being coded as a father.
There’s some serious pathology going on in the US. Shit sucks.
Politics as sexual pathology, but 80% of the population has a step-parent fetish.
I wonder what it means that we joke about famous communists being our cool uncle instead
I would argue that it’s more ironic and less parasocial than calling someone Daddy. There is an implication of less closeness, and uncles/aunts aren’t as societally revered as patents, especially cool uncles/aunts.
I also think there’s less of a parasocial dynamic since we tend to approach these people from a materialist standpoint. These folks are compared to a cool uncle because they introduce ideas outside of the traditional education we receive from parents, not because they are aesthetically like a parent we can project our vague wishes onto.
Like the presupposition of closeness isn’t there.
that tweet is
to me, I can’t help but try to figure out what drove her to type that specific sentence with all its little specific details and then inflict it upon the world, and I never succeed
I mean the US is a deeply patriarchal society that has normalized and enabled abusive patriarchs in the homes.
Yeah so chuds can miss me with the shit that we don’t need feminism anymore because we have token gestures of woman empowerment.
And even the smallest token gestures of woman empowerment sends these guys into rage because their sense of manhood is threatened.
I’m home, folks, I’m home. I been away for a long, very long time, too long some are saying, but when I came back - it was like, it was like no one has ever believed or seen before in the history of quite frankly returns. Did you see that? Did you see me come back? But now I’m here, and you’re here too, so I just want to say hello and welcome folks.
