Fascist Fetish

"Vee haf ways of making you talk."

-Unknown

Another slapdash offering this morning after losing most of yesterday dealing with a clogged kitchen drain, Mom's estate, and an unplanned promotion from sous chef to senior officer in charge of supper when Peg had to work late and friends were arriving at six. Not having a lot of productive fun lately.

So, this morning's musing arises out of an article in the WaPo, summarized in Mediaite this morning, on the rise of MAGA fetishism in the DC political community these days.

https://www.mediaite.com/weird/washington-post-drops-eye-popping-report-on-the-maga-doms-and-libtard-subs-infiltrating-kink-communities/

“On MAGA Doms/Dommes and Libtard Subs, members post requests such as, ‘Looking for a MAGA Dom to ‘red pill’ me, and convince me to share my wife,'” wrote Lieberman, who reported that one man “described his fantasy as wearing a Trump dog collar (sold on Trump’s campaign website) and being walked” around a Walmart “to pick out a dog bone.”

Another man, who described himself as “very, very, very much a liberal,” told the Washington Post that he fantasized about Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene (R-GA) and Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) forcing him “to vote straight red Donald Trump.” Yet another person reportedly fantasized “about having sex with people she finds repulsive,” including Trump, Osama bin Laden, and “Hells Angels bikers.”

My, that does sound sexy, doesn't it?

Two questions come to mind in reading the article. First, what is it about fascism that draws the S&M crowd? I mean, before Trump it was a stock humor meme to portray the nerdy guy or the tall, curvy gal dressing as a Nazi to engage in a little BDSM recreation. As I ponder the issue, I guess the answer is there in plain view. Res ipsa loquitur.

Of course, one could flip the question and ask what mental distortion makes the same person who'd vote for Trump or defecate inside the Capitol on January 6th sexually stimulated by bondage and humiliation, with the other person generally (but not always, as the article observes) the beta? I guess I'll never know.

The second big question here is one of our ever-evolving language. At one point in the essay there is a quote from a "60-year-old male dominatrix named Master Black Satyr Dragon Wolf."

Besides that the nom de boudoir strikes me as trying too hard, I'm flummoxed by the concept that a man can be a "dominatrix"; shouldn't that be "dominator"? Back when we were all sort of stuck with our gender assigned at birth, the "-ix" suffix generally was reserved for women. Remember that most famous 1930s aviatrix, Amelia Earhart?

Come to think of it, 'ol Amelia was a bit of a gender-bender in a lot of ways. Check out the man's necktie. Had she not been eaten by cannibals in New Guinea ninety years ago, she might've made a decent living working in DC as an aviatrix dominatrix, in jackboots and that cool leather flying cap.

Boy have I wandered off the reservation.

Time to get ready for a mediation in a few, and a couple days trying to play catch-up after yesterday's train wreck.