she tried to get wrapping paper made, presumably to sell to raise campaign funds.
the wrapping paper and it had a pattern that alternated between a graphic that reads,
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“No [picture of balls] in our stalls,” and her campaign logo.
“My team just informed me that no company would make this wrapping paper for us because it’s too ‘offensive,'” she wrote.
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“What I find offensive is men in women’s bathrooms.”
“A sitting Congresswomen using a disgusting and bigoted slur about Americans who staged a nonviolent protest,” responded Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL). “People who use this type of despicable language should not be leading anyone.”
I think your analysis in pretty on point. In my circles, we call this problem “gender essentialism.” I see that it stems from neoplatonic thought as derived from Christian puritanism, and it desperately attempts to reconcile a kind of cherry-picked modernism with traditionalism. And it fuckin’ sucks.
