{"id":3788,"date":"2022-10-12T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T23:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/queersatanic.com\/?p=3788"},"modified":"2022-10-12T16:39:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T23:39:00","slug":"stop-searching-for-the-right-way-to-shout-rumpelstiltskin-at-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/?p=3788","title":{"rendered":"Stop searching for the right way to shout &#8220;Rumpelstiltskin!&#8221; at conservatives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/queersatanic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/30a518bdbff5ece4433b106ddd4ad21cfd14e5b1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3790\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/queersatanic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/6140f45a9d4d365a6278edf32af6e50e13437016.jpg\" alt=\"(a) FEDERAL FUNDS LIMITATION.\u2014No Federal funds may be made available to develop, implement, facilitate, or fund any sexually-oriented program, event, or literature for children under the age of 10, including hosting or promoting any program, event, or literature involving sexually-oriented material, or any program, event, or literature that exposes children under the age of 10\" class=\"wp-image-3791\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/queersatanic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/610a51fa62c7139664eecdd9f3073790cbd5f189.jpg\" alt=\"(e) DEFINITIONS.\u2014In this section: 16 (1) SEXUALLY-ORIENTED MATERIAL.\u2014The term \u2018\u2018sexually-oriented material\u2019\u2019 means any depiction, description, or simulation of sexual activity, any lewd or lascivious depiction or description of human genitals, or any topic involving gender identity, gender dysphoria, transgenderism, sexual orientation, or related subjects.\" class=\"wp-image-3792\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">No &quot;literature&quot; &quot;involving&quot; &quot;sexual orientation or related subjects&quot; for under 10s? <br><br>So Fantastic Mr Fox, Owl Moon, The Cat in the Hat, and any other book involving heterosexual couples is banned?<br><br>GOP really don&#39;t think straight is a &quot;sexual orientation,&quot; do they.<\/p>&mdash; Joshua Libling (@JJLibling) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JJLibling\/status\/1582437116675358720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 18, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please stop doing this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Queen Mab may be bound by clever wordplay, but conservatives are not the fey. The devil may be forced to keep his promises, but Christian Nationalists are not restrained by the same integrity as Old Scratch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOh-ho! They didn\u2019t think through their own rules, hmm? What <em>fools<\/em>! Don&#8217;t they even know how [literature\/biology\/history] works?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Friend, their rule is, \u201cFuck you\u201d and \u201cThank your betters.\u201d Beloved, their way of making things work is, \u201cEradicate the vermin.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a central feature of right-wing ideology and absolutely critical to understand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-black-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-32a3b4deb3385d73cf0e742d787fbc65 is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-black-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-852f0565b5f5c994d7469c0f1cdfa00e is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Conservativism consists of exactly one principle, to whit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.<\/p>\n<cite>Frank Wilhoit (2018)<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Conservatives believe hierarchy is fundamental to humanity (and sometimes fundamental to the universe). While you may think they imagine themselves at the top of this hierarchy, that\u2019s not so. They just always imagine someone else <i>guaranteed<\/i> to be below them. They can accept that someone will be above them but the bargain of self-injuring collaboration is to be granted absolute power over some other even more despised group (\u201cpsychological wages\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is why equality is anathema to conservatives. They <i>cannot<\/i> imagine it, only an inverted system of oppression where they lose power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If they accept slavery, it\u2019s because someone must inevitably be fettered and tortured, but in a good system, it\u2019s someone who <i>deserves<\/i> it. So if a slaver can\u2019t hold the whip or put someone in chains, they assume they\u2019ll be enslaved \u2014 which is unnatural and unfair because <i>they<\/i> don\u2019t deserve it. Literally, slavers responded to abolitionism in history this way but also right now (just ask people about ending prison slavery).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So think about that in terms of queer life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At present, cis-heteronormativity and patriarchy are <i>intensely<\/i> indoctrinated into children and violently enforced to maintain the current hierarchy. A huge amount of energy shapes children from birth and keeps them in line. If society rejects that hierarchical oppression, the right wing does not believe that no one will be indoctrinated or coerced. They believe indoctrination and violence will be queer instead, and <i>that\u2019s<\/i> unnatural and unfair (unlike the status quo they call natural and fair).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Therefore, conservatives will try to stop this \u201cgrooming\u201d where children think of themselves as people with agency, bodily autonomy, and a full sense of self \u2014 because they say that\u2019s perverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s no \u201cgotcha\u201d here. The logic is consistent. Conservatives just think we\u2019re subhuman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Conservatives used to openly claim nobles and royals had better blood, and to openly claim certain people were subhuman by race, gender, disability, etc. That has never gone away, it only got quieter for a while. The return is not an aberration but central to the whole project and way of ordering their existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you think it\u2019s an oversight by conservatives that black letter law makes it so cisheterosexual as well as queer relationships can\u2019t be acknowledged, you fundamentally misunderstand the point of power and believe law exists like magic spells rather than expression of that power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please stop doing this. Queen Mab may be bound by clever wordplay, but conservatives are not the fey. The devil may be forced to keep his promises, but Christian Nationalists are not restrained by the same integrity as Old Scratch. \u201cOh-ho! They didn\u2019t think through their own rules, hmm? What fools! Don&#8217;t they even know&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[642,729,738,789,806,844,867,11,1159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alejandra-caraballo","category-christian-nationalism","category-conservativism","category-esqueer","category-frank-wilhoit","category-hypocrisy","category-jjlibling","category-memes","category-twitter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}