In hundreds of messages reviewed by the Daily Mail, the 56-year-old is allegedly shown messaging sex workers who specialize in “bimbofication,” or a type of roleplay fetish that involves being turned into a stereotypical bimbo or Barbie dolls in some cases.

“Ms. Noem is devastated,” a spokesperson for Kristi Noem told The New York Post. “The family was blindsided by this, and they ask for privacy and prayers at the time.”

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    “Ms. Noem is devastated,” a spokesperson for Kristi Noem told The New York Post. “The family was blindsided by this, and they ask for privacy and prayers at the time.”

    Killing puppies? COOL AND GOOD

    Crossdressing kink? BAD SAD

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      She was blindsided by her execution of the family dog, so she asked for privacy and prayers in her book she promoted everywhere.

      … wait, can we get a book about this sexy bimbo?
      Like with a (obviously fake) story & pics?

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    I am sure he is a vile and disgusting person for completely unrelated reasons but I hate how having a kink is made out to be some shameful and horrible defect that you can be “accused” of and have to keep secret.

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      Liberals love having permission to make fun of people for stuff like this that they normally can’t get away with.

      “Haha, he’s a crossdresser! No of course I don’t have a problem with crosdressers, but HE does, so Im just saying it to get under his skin! What? This contributes to violence against gender variant people? Stop being so sensitive! It’s just a joke!”

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        I don’t know, I think a big part of the ‘own’ is the hypocrisy of it. Every accusation an admission.

        I don’t know if liberals really are secretly waiting to dogpile someone for crossdressing.

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          Im mentally lumping it with the Putin/Trump kissing stuff because ‘both Trump and Putin are homophobes’ ‘owns’ that libs gleefully and uncritically trot out. If the own was that he’s a hypocrite, they’d lead with that Person X accused of hypocrisy as photos of them doing Y emerge", not with the ‘scandalous’ kink

          (Edit: others in this thread have also raised this point)

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          I admit that I haven’t followed the story that closely but what I have seen in mainstream reporting has been less “look at that hypocrite” and more “celebrity caught having yucky and ridiculous kink”.

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          Look in any thread on one of the popular lemmy instances that concerns Trump women and you will see tons of libs unleashing their internalized misogyny and body shaming bullshit

          If you call them out on it they get so offended too. Like “how dare you imply I disrespect women? Me, the person who literally just posted about how one of the Trump ladies was so pretty before her “mar a lago face” and then went on a paragraph rant about her current appearance with the rhetoric of a schoolyard bully”

          I think you are correct though that they won’t dogpile on cross dressing but merely because they conflate it with LGBT identities which makes them terrified to comment and potentially appear homophobic (misogyny is fine though, didn’t you see that South Park episode)

          See also: the rhetoric of dem posters on reddit whenever a minority group votes for the GOP.

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      Aside from the kink, Kristi Noem could be mad about the infidelity aspect. Messaging other women about sex could be a violation of a monogamous relationship. However, I would bet that Kristi Noem is more mad about the cross-dressing.

      Infidelity can also cause someone to lose US Government security clearance. This is because people who are engaged with infidelity are vulnerable to being blackmailed.

      The story was originally published by Daily Mail, which is typically very reactionary. I chose to link Them Magazine (LGBTQ magazine) to avoid problematic opinions in the article.

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    A lot of hate for groups like trans and queer people really does feel like it’s rooted in historically christian self-shaming for sexual desires or kinks. When people are taught to repress something there is always a segment who express that repression by directing hate at those they view as not doing so. For the repressed, seeing others who are free feels like a personal attack.

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        I think it’s also an overcompensation, covering up the repressed feelings by loudly demonstrating how much you hate it.

        It can also not have that at all of course, but in some cases it’s the only explanation I have, and I’ve spoken to quite a few trans people who admit to having been transphobic before their eggs finally cracked who have all said they think it was overcompensation.

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    People with weird little fetishes need to stop trying to build a world where if someone finds out your weird little fetish you are fucked.

    Come you sissies, human ponies, feet fuckers, bimbos, brats and rope bunnies. Let us walk hand in hand to a world where you can be your freaky self without fear and shame.

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      There must be some psychological term to describe this pseudokink these people have, where the kink itself is not enough, they also need a meta-layer of working against the legality of the kink

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            I’m just riffing on the joke format. I actually don’t know how common this sort of fetish repression complex is in women. It certainly seems to happen less but it’s hard to know if it does or if it’s just conservative movements largely excluding women.

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              Sorry, I think I’m a bit defensive because I’ve just talked to some Natoid lib who was heavyyy into the whole “divine feminine”/“if women were in power there would be no war” thing.
              I curious wether it’s less common among women, or it’s more just a case of it not being able to be as common among women due to material conditions.

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                “divine feminine”/“if women were in power there would be no war”

                Women when they’re in power

                I dunno, I think maybe there’s an underlying problem in the system, and patriarchy is one of its many, oldest faces

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                Fair fair. Tbh gender war stuff is a bit cringe. I spend a lot of time angry at (nebulous) men because of patriarchy and the cruelty women are consistently shown but it’s less to do with hormones (although having experienced both HOLY SHIT TESTOSTERONE MAKES YOU ANGRY) and more to do with power structures.

                A matriarchy may not be bad in the same ways (pervy sex stuff,removed, murder) but human brains don’t survive contact with power.

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                  and more to do with power structures

                  Yes, power structures for the control of women. The problem with radical feminism isn’t the man hating, that’s cool, good and justified, the problem lies in essentializing the problem and tying it to “masculine energy”, “male socialization”, biodeterminism or some other terfy nonsense instead of the material reality of patriarchy as a control and extraction mechanism.

                  But that system only exists because all men benefit to it from some degree. OFC, it does also offer women and nonbinary people the opportunity to wield its control mechanisms against other non-men, which is why i call it a power structure for the control of women and not a power structure for the rule of men. Every oppressive system incentivizes its victims to aspire to Kapo status. And ofc it also harms men, after all it needs wounded, repressed, secretly insecure and constantly unsatisfied men as its main agents of violence and only the tiniest percentage of them can actually come out on top while the rest is doomed to the bucket crab life.

                  And still, patriarchy keeps persisting because men, the labor aristocrats of gender, do not dare to challenge it. This is why i do not buy the “not all men” chaff and flare, men who aren’t part of the problem will not run interference by going into deflection mode when women need to vent or call something out. Good men care about justice, not about collective exculpation at the expense of victims.

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      I dont know if this is some further pathology of their sexuality and politics, but like, I think the shame, knowing its wrong to them is part of the kink. Like it feels connected to the want to be oppressed, to find a justification in existence like that. For some elites that seems like it also drifts towards pedophilia but also things like drug use and abortion where they can understand these things better as being wrong by engaging in them but being superior to everyone else, can excuse themselves from being included.

      Its such a weird mix of individualism and supremacy, while still wanting to exist and realize themselves without being able to know what that means. A total emptiness of the nihilism of the upper class.

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    As someone who gets hired to draw this sort of stuff sometimes, to the point that it is relatively vanilla for my clients, this is an extremely funny article. This is like that German guy who sued over spicy food.

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      Me pretending I’m not familiar with kink stuff when someone tells me about it later irl

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    Ms. Noem is devastated,” a spokesperson for Kristi Noem told The New York Post. “The family was blindsided by this, and they ask for privacy and prayers at the time.”

    Lmao, why prayers? The guy just has a fetish, he is not gonna die