That was fascinating to read about. History doesn’t repeat but it sure as shit rhymes.

Wiki page if anyone’s interested

But then how are you supposed to know when to laugh?!?! ^/s

I don’t say don’t visit in July because it’s dangerous, I say don’t visit in July because every shop, restaurant, pub even chippies close down. Some for the whole month. If you’re there the week on either side of the twelfth, everything is closed. Probably not in Belfast, but if you’re in Armagh or Antrim everything is shut or has really odd hours.

It’s really crazy visiting Northern Ireland. You’ll be driving to the shop and someone will say “oh, that’s Tommy Doyles house, he killed 26 British soldiers and made bombs.” It was quite the culture shock. You don’t realize how raw it still is because so many people who were impacted by it are still alive. Another time a man told us about how at 14/15 he was detained and beaten dozens of times because his half brother who was 20 years his elder was wanted and they thought he knew where he was hiding. Really interesting country. Worth visiting. Don’t go in July.

That’s fair I haven’t been reading the whole comment thread. There’s definitely plenty of meat on the meme bone for jokes about the ugliness of the maga aesthetic without it degrading into misogyny, but it’s too bad people are acting that way.

The whole conservative movement is the butt of the joke. They’re all in shallow marriages, wear hideous fake costumes, and hate each other. The whole thing is ugly and shallow. The men wear the same clown costume and it’s just as ugly. Spray tans and hair gel anyone?

But they’re ugly because of specific choices they made to wear what ends up looking like a fascist clown costume. They chose this look. They’re not being made fun of for things outside their control.

The vitriol and anger that led to those aesthetic choices also led to unhappy marriages. That’s the joke as I saw it.

I asked a genuine question politely, you can drop the snark.

I agree that if the implication that their husbands would sleep around with other men exclusively because their wives are ugly, then it’d be misogynistic. But that’s not the implication of the meme, at least not as I saw it.

These women chose to wear a specific type of outfit, a specific type of makeup, dye their hair a specific way, and get specific cosmetic surgeries to fit into the toxic world they live in. They choose to look like this. It’s a uniform. Nobody is making fun of their bone structure, bodies, etc. They’re making fun of choices they made aesthetically that comedically also reflect the toxic and ugly nature of their politics. The character flaws that led to those choices also led many of them to have shallow marriages of convenience. That is what I saw as the joke of the meme.

So is a woman insulting a man by saying he’s ugly also sexist? I’m struggling to see how it’s misogyny, honestly. Like I’m not trying to fight or anything, I just don’t get how insulting physical appearance can be misogynistic when men can be ugly too. It doesn’t seem to be attacking them because they’re women, but because their appearance seems to reflect their souls. Ugly. What am I missing?