The right’s obsession with the post-war period, when women were removed from the workforce, is downright weird. It’s one thing to focus on a period that was anomalous in many ways (women not in the workforce, unlike… every other time in US history), but they also have no understanding of - nor desire to replicate - the things that allowed that to happen (e.g. government investment in education, high-paying union jobs, etc.).
There’s a longstanding conservative tradition of privileging a child’s view of the world - that idea that “things were better when they were kids” (because they were children blissfully unaware of what was going on, not because anything was better). This rosy notion of the '50s came out of that dynamic (and economic prosperity for white households), but at this point, with younger conservatives, it’s not even their own childhood that they’re seeing through rose-colored glasses but their parents and grandparents. At this point it feels like the desire for a return of the misogyny, homophobia and racism of the period has taken over as the appeal factor.
Indeed. They didn’t want to wipe, because they might accidently touch their O ring and make them gay. So instead, they get to deal with, of all things, diaper rash (or whatever the adult name for it is) or worse.
I pity them, if only because they somehow managed to buy in whole-heartedly to whatever line of bullshit was sold them.
(and wait until they get older and their doctor goes “ok, you are 50- it’s time for your colonoscopy to make sure you don’t have cancer!”- that ought to break their minds but good.)
True but I also think a lot of these guys who actually believe this stuff/ buy into these ideas of what they have to be… don’t see doctors with any kind of regularity anyway. Framing lack of medical care as “masculine” helps mask the underlying healthcare issues in the US too.
they don’t go to doctors until it’s an emergency and too late. (And you can’t necessarily blame cost for that, because men of that age typically don’t get checkups or see a doctor for mild things even in countries with universal health care and it’s free.)
colonoscopies are Out Of The Question, even if they did go to a doctor for regular checkups, which they don’t.
Typically, their medical advice for colon cancer sums up to “Well, if we book you in for surgery this afternoon and put you on chemo tomorrow morning, you might last six months.”
