Apparently there’s a whole S&M subculture focussed on dominant MAGAs and mostly male submissive liberals. Alternatively, there are some MAGA men who would like to be disciplined by Democratic mistresses or masters.
HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS
I think I’ve mentioned that I live in Austin, Texas, where it is intolerably hot in the summer, but like LA, very pleasant around Christmas time. And yet for various reasons, there is an annual effort to lure us to the East Coast in winter, where the temperatures are below freezing and the airports will be packed with unhappy travelers. Oh, and it’s windy and wet and I never have the proper equipment, much like the time I went skiing in jeans and lost a glove in the little town but didn’t care until I went headfirst into a goddamn snowbank and burst into tears.
Do you have this problem? Do you find yourself checking your weather app while you’re shivering along on a nasty slushy dark depressing evening walk that someone insisted everyone take, and noticing that LA is 78 degrees and sunny? And do you find that you can’t point out this discrepancy without being accused of failing some kind of holiday spirit test? And have you noticed there’s always someone blathering on and on about how much they love snow and you can’t disagree because that someone is frequently your spouse who will then accuse you of undermining the family fun?
Hey, I’m just saying. In truth, we’re staying home this year, after last year’s Southwest Airlines debacle (that forced us to spend a night in a Missouri airport) and the prior year’s charming “Covid Christmas” (that stranded ten of us in a Connecticut motel for six days). So I can’t complain. Plus, I will miss the family, but don’t spread that around.
WHAT’S THE SAFE WORD?
I should be recapping the recent GLBT news, but the holidays approach, and even though I don’t like snow, I do cling tenaciously to certain Christmas traditions; I do very little work and I drink festive cocktails. Plus, I can’t tell you about any actual news until I “report” on a Washington Post article I just read, headlined: “In the world of sexual fetishes, crossing the political aisle is a kink.”
Apparently there’s a whole S&M subculture focussed on dominant MAGAs and mostly male submissive liberals. Alternatively, there are some MAGA men who would like to be disciplined by Democratic mistresses or masters. One man, the Post tells us, “described his fantasy as wearing a Trump dog collar (sold on Trump’s campaign website) and being walked…around Walmart to pick out a dog bone.”
Another likes to imagine Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert forcing him to vote for Trump, or having a dominant MAGA man steal his wife away. “Before the Trump era started, I never once thought about politics as being sexualized,” this fellow told the Post. “Domination from a political party and a[n] ideology that I can’t tolerate, made it … way more of a turn-on.” Okay then!
Regular kinky stuff seems fine to me under a general laissez faire philosophy (as long as no one is hurt). But this guy actually does gross me out a bit. That said, I don’t mind when the shoe on the other foot. During one of the liberal domination sessions, I read, the master and his friend dressed up as Democratic politicians in suits and made their client wear “tighty whities emblazoned with the words ‘Republican slut boy.’” I like that.
CRUZIN’ FOR A BRUISIN’
Did you see that Texas Senator Ted Cruz introduced a bill called “The Safeguarding Honest Speech Act” which says that no federal funds can be used to “implement, administer, or enforce measures requiring certain employees to refer to an individual by the preferred pronouns of such individual or a name other than the legal name of such individual.”
Hmmm. Cruz’s legal name is not “Ted,” it’s “Rafael,” although his middle name is “Edward.” Hey, it’s still worth a laugh. Lately, however, John Kluge, an Indiana music teacher who lost his job after he refused to use the preferred name and pronouns of his trans students, has re-filed a federal lawsuit against his school district even though he lost the first go-round before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
How is that possible, you ask? It’s because the Supreme Court vacated that Seventh Circuit victory and sent his petition for review back to the lower court. They did so after ruling that a postal worker had a constitutional right to refuse Sunday shifts on religious grounds because that accommodation was not a “substantial” (rather than “undue”) burden on his employer. Their decision, in turn, meant that Kluge’s “religious freedom” case had to be reevaluated with new standards. Really? Your religion requires you to insult and abuse minority students and the school district has to go along with that? Say it ain’t so.
A PURR-FECT CRIME
Gay furry hackers known as “SiegedSec” have broken into a range of government and industry data bases in the last year, most recently the HR department of an Idaho-based nuclear power lab, the Idaho National Laboratory” (INL), a division of the Energy Department. According to the National Review, the group boasted about their accomplishment on “public forums,” writing: “Meow meow meow meow meow meow meow.”
The mysterious activists, who also posted some INL employee data on <<<Telegraph>>>, are protesting for trans rights, although they appear to have a mixed agenda. In the Idaho case, for example, the hackers reportedly said they would remove much of the information if the lab scientists would create real-life “catgirls,” sexy females with cat ears, whiskers and tails.
I’m not sure what that has to do with transgender rights, indeed it’s not clear how these gay furries are connected to the trans community to begin with, although I suppose we are all united under the all-encompassing “queer” rubric. In at least one of their breaches, SiegedSec explained that they were fighting for “human rights,” but that it was also “fun to leak documents.”
