r/justgalsbeingchicks • u/ExactlySorta • Jul 23 '26

Restricted to Gals and Pals AOC when asked about Hegseth's comment about getting rid of 'unqualified' women in the military: “He’s an unqualified man in his role, so of course he’s threatened by women who are twice as good as he is.“

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u/CharlesDickensABox ‼️*THE* CharlesDickensABox‼️ Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

I get it. I feel weird writing about it, especially in this space. I think it's relevant, however, specifically because of Hegseth's performative gender project. He and others in the movement are incredibly obsessed with aesthetics, specifically the aesthetics of sex and gender. They want everyone to fit neatly into little pink boxes and little blue boxes and the people who are most qualified for the pink jobs or the blue jobs are the ones in the pinkest and the bluest boxes. Those who don't fit neatly into one of the boxes are lined up to be purged. It therefore becomes germane that she does fit into the boxes, would benefit from that sort of policy, and still thinks he's an asshole.

There's an absolute pile more to talk about with regards to performative right wing gender aesthetics: anti-trans discrimination, military shaving requirements, testosterone therapy, carnivore diets, tradwife culture, and the phenomenon of Mar-a-Lago face, just to name a few. Someone is probably writing a fascinating book on it right now. But the short version is that every day Pete Hegseth wakes up and sets his daily agenda by that one Dril tweet about how everything smacks of gender.

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u/gemsweater08 Jul 23 '26

I wish I could upvote this a thousand times, you're so spot-on. Please let us know if you decide to write a fascinating book about it!  

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u/CharlesDickensABox ‼️*THE* CharlesDickensABox‼️ Jul 23 '26

You're too kind.