Can Republicans see the color gray? After all, it's a secondary color, not a primary one. It's a melding of black and white, which theoretically shouldn't be visible to the Republican eye.
It must be said the ultra-binary folk on the other side of the aisle certainly like simplicity. And under normal circumstances, so do I. I mean, any idiot can devise a complicated, labyrinthine plan for something, right?
True genius lies in simplicity. The design with the fewest moving parts.
But in light of the misguided simplicity Texas Governor Greg Abbott seeks in Texas, it's not too much of a stretch to term his assault on transgendered kids genocide.
Life is messy. It rarely conforms to the yes-no, good-bad schematic we lay out for it. It goes up when we want it to go down. Left we we demand it go right. We end up with jalapeno queso when we wanted buttermilk ranch.
A favorite expressions states that life is what happens when we were planning something else.
But not to Republicans. Simple-minded creatures they are, the infusion of even in a little black in their white confuses them. Alarms them. Panics them. “That's not black!” they cry. “That's not white!”
It's pure, unmitigated terror.
And this is the challenge Abbott and his developmentally-disabled Texans face with transgendered children.
There have always been feminine men. And masculine women. And if you'll allow my libtard snowflake self to say so, there ain't nothing wrong with it. Only with the rigid gender-based expectations society imposes on them.
And depending on the degree to which each feels the tug of the other, serious mental-health issues can ensue. And if the libtard snowflake can again express an opinion, I am not a fan of mental-health issues.
I want everyone—with the possible exception of Donald Trump and his strumpets—to live their best, most-fulfilling life. If you're a boy who feels more comfortable in a dress or a girl who wants chest hair and a mustache, have at it.
As long as you only wish to get along in the world and perhaps even contribute to it now and then, what of it? If adopting the characteristics of those opposite your birth gender allows you to be your best and most authentic self, who cares?
In the early days of women's lib, the media seized on the question What do woman want? There is no single answer. Women want as many different things as men. What they really wanted (and still do) is the freedom to want them—even if they don't conform with narrow gender norms.
Yes, it's challenging. Yes, it's complicated. But so is technology. So is medicine. So is developing financial schemes that lay on the very edge of what could be termed 'legal'. But we do it. Every day. “It's complicated!” isn't good enough.
Unless you're a Republican. You have to remember, this is a group of people who were undone by having to wear a featherweight mask during a pandemic. That provoked the most vicious and destructive assault on democracy in U.S. history.
Republicans are a tremulous lot, easily agitated. In a country that is now a thoroughly non-white melting pot, they are creeped out. If you're imagining a party collectively wearing Depends underwear (extra absorbent), you're not too far off.
Where's my bowl of unmolested, homogenized tapioca? It's in 1890, bro. Good luck with that.
If you're a Republican and feel you can differentiate between Hitler's effort to cleanse post-World War One Germany and Abbott's in Texas, the comment box is open.
I dare you.
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