Interesting how this seems to happen every single time there’s a large gathering of Republicans.

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    No, a lot of them really are, it isn’t complicated.

    Repress sexuality, sexual expression, codify a rigid set of norms around it?

    It thus becomes fetishized, and this must also be a secret, because you essentially lose all your face, your social status, respectability, as s conservative, if you are outed.

    We think it is ridiculous they are hypocrites.

    They all know they are in the company of hypocrites, what they do not like is the tearing of the veil, the decomposition of the masquerade.

    If it needs to be stated: I grew up in this culture and had to actively flee from it.

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    Also, this is why conservatives associate trans people and homosexuals with pedophilia.

    To them, it all falls into one bucket of forbidden faux pas. It is all heresy, it is all sin, all perversion, differentiation is largely unimportant, in fact even attempting to make the differentiation explicit is often viewed as a sin.

    Of course, again, this makes all of this into secret fetishes, which the power hierarchy of their culture will nearly always orient itself in such a manner to protect the power structure itself, very often by supressing reporting or punishment for say, being an active pedophile or rapist, be this in the context of a family, or a wholr chuch body, whatever.

    Its all there when you look under the curtains, but their whole thing is worshipping the curtains, the conformity.

    Psychosexuality is the root of almost all politics, prove me wrong lol.