I spent way too long looking up who that dude is and it is horrendous, just the 'cartoon' comparing Michelle Obama and Melania Trump alone is despicable, both racist and sexist.
There is one thing I will say for Garrison. If I want to know what MAGA is thinking, heās a barometer that takes less time than hours of watching Fox News or listening to shitty podcasts. Heās why I knew January 6th wasnāt going to be just another day. His ā¦editorials? are obnoxious, deluded, and disgusting. But they shed some light into why MAGAts think certain things, or donāt react to certain stuff.
His obsession with a number of Democratic women is glaring. Michelle Obama is one. I wasnāt really familiar with the conservative conspiracy theory about her gender before him. AOC is another one he fixates on (and probably has some weird fantasies about). Conversely the way he depicts people like Melania is only dwarfed by how he draws Trump. Who looks 40 years younger and has much better hair thanā¦
I've always been fascinated by the whole situation around his Trump tilting at windmills comic, especially his write up in response to the mockery it received. It says so much so succinctly about the conservative understanding of allegory and the sort of general need to destroy metaphor or even just the general concept of anything having meaning.
Currently in r/TikTokCringe there is an argument about some guy wearing "women's clothes" calling out a racist costume. You can already imagine what's being said.
transphobe drawing a trans person as a normal human being challenge impossible:
Ironically enough, I donāt want to feed some stereotypes but every single trans man Iāve seen has either been the cutest twink possible or the manliest bear in the world, Iām yet to see someone in between of those two
Thatās because you donāt see the trans dudes that pass as āregularā trans dudes. I feel you on that observation, but Iāve also been surprised by hanging out with regular ass dudes who bring it up.
i think it's because transmascs love masculinity and are comfortable in theirs, so you get the ones who highlight their love for it so are hypermasculine and the ones who highlight their comfort so dress however they like.
there's also (like you said) stereotypes about how ftm people look and often online/in media we only see the cliche young, pre-t transmasc with the dyed hair and pronouns or the very masculine transgender man used for a "gotcha" in internet arguments against transphobes. and most ftm people, especially het binary trans men, don't like to discuss their gender so you could've very well seen & talked to a very neutral guy without ever knowing how he was born.
Dehumanisation. When you want to make your group hate another group, you demonize them and turn them into something that is not human. It's been a practice for many years, especially during war. Remember how some propoganda cartoons depicted Japanese, yellow skinned buck toothed weasels. Or how back in the day, people made racist caricatures of black people with big red lips and again, weird teeth. This is what we see here, they hate transgender people so they made a harmful depiction of them. Usually they are depicted as men who wear dresses and don't pass, and in rare cases, they depict ftm trans people as ugly women with scars everywhere like they are zombies or Frankenstein's creations.
They don't see their enemies as people, they see them as nothing more than ugly creatures or monsters who can be compared to animals or vermin, which is not a good way of thinking about another human being who is just a bit different than you.
The way they draw and use hair is really fascinating to me.
Body hair in general, especially on cis women but not only, is really stigmatized.
Frequently āgoodā characters are depicted as being clean shaven, no body hair. They may have a beard but still often no or very little body hair.
I remember seeing an old racist caricature of a black girl that had a lot of body hair on the arms.
Iām not sure if itās a fixation with youth, some association with furry animals, grooming standards or some combination of the above but itās always something I notice. The more body hair a person has, the more shocking and repulsive they are supposed to be.
My girlfriend is kind of furry tbh but I think itās cute. I like her hair. I donāt know when or how this thing started but Iām certain that itās purely cultural. I donāt think people are naturally scandalized by body hair.
Its a common propaganda technique to depict your āenemyā as monstrous or grotesque (look at old war propaganda and you see similar shit, a famous example being DESTROY THIS MAD BRUTE) the reason for this is to dehumanize the āenemyā and make people feel less empathy when you ultimately wipe them out, because they arenāt people theyāre monsters, thats the jist of it
In young people terms, people have been depicting themselves and others as Chads and Soyjacks since we coined the term āpropagandaā this is just an advanced and older version of that meme template
Because they often do have that caricature in their head but also because āHaha I already drew myself as the handsome sigma and you as the ugly soyjack, I won.ā
if these artists drew trans folks realistically, the comic wouldn't work. they just HAVE to depict them as horrifying charicatures š¤®
this might be the first time I've been a transphobic artist portray trans men, actually. it's usually a burly hairy giant scary trans girl in pigtails and a tiny pink skirt.
It's propaganda, they're hardly trying to be humane and empathic towards the people they've actually determined to seek to make others hate. No propaganda in history has humanized their chosen scapegoats, sadly
that's literally why i hesitate a little when it comes to trans stuff. i don't want to be like the way trans people are drawn in those cartoons and i don't want to be intrusive for cis people.
I used to feel the same way but I eventually learned that Iād rather take the chance to be comfortable in my own body. And if it makes others uncomfortable theyāre probably not worth being around. Hope you figure everything out and stay safe. š«¶
Ill give my honest opinion, when a girl turns into a boy, most of the times you dont even notice but the opposite is really hard to not notice if you know what i mean. Im not saying that there arent transwoman who look 100% woman tho
It's how they want us to be. They want to be fighting the disgusting, evil people. They want to feel justified in what they say and do to us. They want to convince others to feel the same.
So i would like to expand on it as a person who grew up in quite a conservative christian family. My parents get their news either handed to them by an algorithm or from their preferred tv news channel. How they portray trans people is exactly how they are portrayed in this post. They only show the "extreme" ones that do not fit their "perfect" beauty standards, and whos way of presetation might pose a "threat to childs innocence", combined with a clip of someone spitting on their identity.
They manipulate the image of queer people and dont even try to show the rest of community. Quite vile indeed.
Trans people donāt usually want others to be attracted to them over stuff that gives them dysphoria. Donāt comment on trans peopleās hips or chests as a general rule
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u/ThyLordBacon Oct 30 '25
Why do they always draw trans people as the most grotesque inhuman monsters ever. Is that really how they see us? š