There is this local group of nutty women called "The Mama Bears" that have been terrorizing school board meetings. They dressed up in the same costumes as some high school boys that put on a drag school to prove a point, and while it was definitely a bit odd to wear a cocktail dress to a school board meeting, nobody to the left of the Amish would be scandalized.
It's odd how the most socially conservative people believe the default should be that others conform to their sartorial preferences, rather than them conforming to progressive sartorial preferences. There's no immediate argument why their preferences ought to be privileged over others.
You can be a conservative in different ways, and I should be more careful about using the term as a shorthand for "the American cultural right-wing." For example, in the political sphere, you could call yourself a conservative and mean by that something like, "I don't want to go messing around with institutions too quickly." Or, typical of Trumpist conservatives, you might mean, "I want to tear down every institution I see as woke." In the individual sphere, you might be conservative in that you stick to an old and unchanging way of doing things (As a Buddhist, I do my best to live according to a set of guidelines set down ~2,500 years ago), or you could be a conservative in that you want to maintain those social hierarchies and boundaries that benefit you or make you comfortable, and punish those who seek to flatten or transgress them.
There is this local group of nutty women called "The Mama Bears" that have been terrorizing school board meetings. They dressed up in the same costumes as some high school boys that put on a drag school to prove a point, and while it was definitely a bit odd to wear a cocktail dress to a school board meeting, nobody to the left of the Amish would be scandalized.
It's odd how the most socially conservative people believe the default should be that others conform to their sartorial preferences, rather than them conforming to progressive sartorial preferences. There's no immediate argument why their preferences ought to be privileged over others.
Spot on. I can't believe that I ever considered myself a conservative. I was always on the moderate end of that anyway.
You can be a conservative in different ways, and I should be more careful about using the term as a shorthand for "the American cultural right-wing." For example, in the political sphere, you could call yourself a conservative and mean by that something like, "I don't want to go messing around with institutions too quickly." Or, typical of Trumpist conservatives, you might mean, "I want to tear down every institution I see as woke." In the individual sphere, you might be conservative in that you stick to an old and unchanging way of doing things (As a Buddhist, I do my best to live according to a set of guidelines set down ~2,500 years ago), or you could be a conservative in that you want to maintain those social hierarchies and boundaries that benefit you or make you comfortable, and punish those who seek to flatten or transgress them.