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  • Someone posted this on my FB, some good points I thought.

    "Things NOT to do when criticising Trump:
    —Make fun of his body (body-shaming), incl.
    —making fun of his fatness, present him in illustrations as fatter than in real life as if this is a sign of evil, or in any way related to what is wrong about him (fatphobia)
    —Make fun of the size of his penis ("It Uses the [deeply patriarchal and toxic] Idea That Someone Isn’t ‘Manly Enough’ As an Insult," is transphobic, and body essentialism: JUST STOP. See article below)
    —Make fun of his small hands (wtf? Can we all take a moment to see this one stems from the popular idea that size of hands reflects size of penis? See above. STOP.)
    —Make fun of his ability to have sex, whether he has sex, or what kind of sex he has p r o v i d e d i t i s c o n s e n s u a l (misses the point, and decentres the actual issue here: the rape/sexual assault allegations & his openly rapey ideology)
    —Say "Pussy grabs back":
    What is it that we are grabbing exactly? (Rape Culture; not how this works)
    —Make fun of Melania's accent / eloquence (xenophobia, classism), or focus on her appearance (misogyny, femmephobia) or overtly sexual photoshoots she has done in the past (slut-shaming, SWERF); Melania is not the problem here: centring her again misses the point. Stop treating her like an object that is attached to him, which the exact objectification/dehumanisation that you seem to oppose when it comes from him."

  • Can't make fun of the size of his hands? What have his hands got to do with his dick? Isn't the point that he was incredibly touchy (no pun intended) about the size of his hands and spent an inordinate amount of time refuting the fact that he's got pudgy little fingers?

    Also, is being fat a good thing these days? I thought it was unhealthy?

  • Alot of the stuff directed at Trump is useless in the same way as the Cameron Pig story: stooping to a puerile level of debate with irrelevant insults that distract from the real harm they are doing.

    I take your point however that the hand thing is a way of highlighting his petty sensitivities, a real and important weakness of his. The hand thing started when his rival Cruz said "you know what they say about guys with small hands", so yes, it was about his dick from the start.

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