Gwen Snyder is uncivil
Our weird is self-acceptance of our difference.
Their weird is a desperate yearning to eradicate anyone different from their outdated, repressive notions of normal.
Which is why our naming their weirdness-- the fact that their ideal norms aren't norms at all-- terrifies them.
Gwen Snyder is uncivil
Oh, you think that lib's purple hair is weird?
Well, guess what, no one dyes their hair purple in a desperate quest for comformist normal.
We're fine with our weird, whereas the far right just desperately wants to have their weird be a lauded, rewarded normal.
Gwen Snyder is uncivil
And the far right is trying SO hard to "I am rubber and you are glue" us on weirdness, and it isn't working.
Not because plenty of us aren't also different from existing norms, but because we don't give a fuck.
Gwen Snyder is uncivil
It's weird to joke about corrective rape.
It's weird to want to inspect kids' genitals to enforce archaic notions of gender essentialism.
It's weird to want women trapped in abusive marriages.
They WANT these things to be the norms, but they simply aren't.
Gwen Snyder is uncivil
The "weird" thing lands because more than anything what these people crave is conformity.
They abhor individual expression that might be read as "weird."
And yet it's that very desire for comformity and disgust at nonconformity that MAKES them weird.
Gwen Snyder is uncivil
What the Friedman NYT crowd misses about the "weird" thing is that it names an ugly irony of the far right.
They want SO MUCH for their regressive creepiness to be an enforcement of norms.
But the norms they violently try to enforce are outdated and gone and, well, WEIRD now
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