• Feinsteins_Ghost [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    12 days ago

    Yeah they really were, weren’t they? Nothing like having someone make light of the pagentry and bullshit surrounding your favorite pass time to really piss you off, I guess.

    • Dessa [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      12 days ago

      It was a “disrespecting the flag” thing for many, IIRC, added on to the intersection of fatphobia and misogyny. People were itching for excuses to hate Roseanne while keeping the moral high ground (her politics weren’t generally known yet, so there was no partisan angle to it).