#in fact they’re horrible and i hate them
I will pretty much instantly distrust a fellow leftist if they paint the enemy as being ugly (’all terfs have bad hair’, ‘all far-right bros are fat people with neck beards’, etc). It shows me they haven’t done some of the most basic work of un-linking appearance from character, which leaves them open to a vast array of bigoted tropes, from fatphobia, ableism and classism to homophobia, transphobia antisemitism and racism, because who we see as ‘attractive’ or looking ‘wholesome’ and who we assume to look ‘untrustworthy’ or villainous’ has been coded by all these things.
FYI this definitely includes small-dick-jokes/big-dick-energy , jokes about people obviously never getting laid, painting the enemy as all having bad hygiene, mocking the opponents speech patterns, etc. Stop that ableist shit.
