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Never liked how in some "left" spaces a few people brag about "banging a marine's wife", why are you bragging about being intimate with the partner of an American soldier? like
idk enough about sexism to give a proper take, but isn't that you seeing her as his property instead of a separate person?
if she accepted marriage to guy who murders people for the U.S. government, why are you having a relationship with a person like that?
Oddly enough I think the origin of this trope actually comes from the military itself, and was probably spread amongst the western left by disillusioned "lefty" veterans. It's a common form of bullying/teasing to joke about fucking each others wives when the other is out on deployment, there's even terms for people who do that (Jody).
While on its face it seems like it's an attack on US military members in the form of mockery, in actuality it's just people perpetuating the hazing culture of the military and recreating it in another context. Hence why it carries over the casual chauvinism and misogyny from that culture as well.
Yes and also maybe it's an attempt to weaponize right wingers' own misogynistic beliefs against them.
Exactly. I'll sleep with a military wife if she earns redemption for sleeping with the enemy, namely, by killing her imperialist husband in his sleep. Not before then. I'm not giving orgasms to my ideological enemies
With that first point in mind, it then feels like the "hOmOpHObEs aRe jUsT cLoSetEd gAY pEoPlE!!!" nonsense
Yes. It's still not good.
A true saiyan would reject this proposal and walk away. If she is married to a marine and is bringing is going after a short villain with a widows peak this is a series of bad decision making and I do not need any more of that in my life
same thing with using cuck as an insult in general. it's just misogyny viewing women as property
This somewhat reminds me of how I saw this clip on Instagram of a white woman being asked "What kind of men do you like?" on the street, and she responded with, "I'm into Black guys," and it cut to a Black man responding by saying, "That's why white supremacists hate us!"
And the comments were mostly just other Black people laughing along and, after enough scrolling, I found just a few comments pointing out how disgusting it is that this Black man is enabling racial fetishization. Of course, these comments received very little recognition.
I'm always skeptical of this because so many reactionaries pretend to be PoC, LGBTQ+, women, Jewish, Muslim, and so on online. That's not to say there aren't minorities who post shit, but I do think the self hatred you see online is over-represented. We really need an emoji for this:
It's gotten worse with AI spam because now they can make fake accounts without having to steal someone else's photos. And they know nobody is going to go through each and every profile to try figuring out if a person is who they say they are or if they're an eldritch AI slop gooner with eleven fingers and three legs.
It's been a problem for years. Reactionaries get upset over something -> chuds go look for evidence to validate their beliefs -> can't find anything because what they believe is nonsense -> chuds fabricate evidence -> other chuds get upset over the fake thing someone made up -> cycle repeats.
Open source propaganda.
Comrade, for the sake of your sanity delete Instagram.
Yeah the comment sections look like klan meetings. Dregs of society
I already did, thankfully. That was a long time ago.