It’s called “Calendargate,” and it’s raising the question of what — and whom — the right-wing war on “wokeness” is really for.
While most people were enjoying the holidays, extremely online conservatives were fighting about a pinup calendar.
Last month, Ultra Right Beer — a company founded as a conservative alternative to allegedly woke Bud Light — released a 2024 calendar titled “Conservative Dad’s Real Women of America 2024 Calendar.” The calendar contains photos of “the most beautiful conservative women in America” in various sexy poses. Some, like anti-trans swimmer Riley Gaines and writer Ashley St. Clair, are wearing revealing outfits; others, like former House candidate Kim Klacik, are fully clothed. No one is naked.
But this mild sexiness was just a bit too much for some prominent social conservatives, who started decrying the calendar in late December as (among other things) “demonic.” The basic complaint is that the calendar is pandering to married men’s sinful lust, debasing conservative women, and making conservatives seem like hypocrites when they complain about leftist immorality.
It is not homosexual for a heterosexual cis man to be attracted to a trans woman. I’ll forgive and edit if the original poster misspoke or I misread, but if they are saying it’s gay for a man to be with a trans women (or it reveals their proclivity) then they are wrong and have the same biased takes as the conservites they are mocking.
I don’t think that’s the take they’re claiming. I interpreted what they wrote as referring to straight men not understanding why they are attracted to trans women. I think the “hetero end of the sexuality scale” portion was just to clarify the situation doesn’t really apply to bi or gay people as much, though I personally think a fair amount of cis gay men are very transphobic.
Nothing you said is false at all, I just don’t think the original commenter was trying to have that take. If that was the take, then I 100% agree with you.