Dominator culture all around

There is plenty of material to explore all of the ways in which there are horrible people braying loudly all the time now. I'm sure I will spend more time on that. 

Currently I am most aware of how exhausting it is; the UFC thing is part of that.

Well, that has several parts as well, including it being one more corrupt cash grab that would have been in poor taste anyway, but more specifically I was thinking about the ignorant slander against a former first lady.

The Obamas themselves do not seem to be responding to it, which I suppose is the only dignified thing to do.

I saw one post that I want to share, from Jay Jurden:

https://x.com/JayJurden/status/2066538960864592341 

This Michelle Obama moment should teach every straight Black man, ESPECIALLY THOSE IN STANDUP COMEDY, that whenever you let transphobia slide the first cis women who get attacked are Black women. Transphobia leads directly to misogynoir in America & being transphobic = antiBlack 

This is true. There is a long, ugly history, but it's a thing.  

There are specific aspects to this truth, in that misogynoir -- the combination of anti-Blackness and misogyny -- tends to alternate between over-sexualizing and de-sexualizing Black women. That relates to taking away femininity, with only white women being worthy of it (different but similar dehumanization happens to Asian and Latina women) as well as commodifying their bodies and declaring them more animal-like, though that does happen to Black men too, just differently.

(Of course we remember the ape pictures.)

Some of it is that there is still great resentment against the Obamas for inhabiting the White House as Black people. We can see the great respect that such people have for the White House by how they react to tacky gilding and demolition, but the presidency, getting votes, not having a bunch of scandals and a general level of excellence that conservatives will not allow themselves to admit to... there is a real racist hatred out there.

(For an example of delusional hatred against the former president, see some of the replies to this post by Tomos Doran: https://x.com/portraitinflesh/status/2065333829305290881 )

While there is a specific resentment, there is also simply that --  in dominator culture -- people pick the easiest targets, homing in on a perceived "downward". 

It can lead to being grossly ignorant publicly, but it can also mean damaging a Hmong woman's fruit stand while telling her to go back to Mexico.

It's not likely to ever be intelligent and well-considered; then it might stop being hateful.