It can.
I’ve encountered trad blogs posting about “racial purity,” interacting with Nazi’s (reblogging from them and endorsing them), etc.
Also seems to go along with transphobia, homophobia, ableism, hatred of anyone not Christian, threatening, misogynistic, sexist, hatred of anyone who chooses not to be the traditional ‘married with kids’…etc. Also weirdly tends to come with a side order of science-denial. I’ve seen a lot of them being anti-vaccination for some reason.
Even the more open ones posts about how gay people shouldn’t get married because they can’t have kids according to her she also said the moment you are married you should be making babies and if you can’t have kids you shouldn’t get married and never have sex because that would be a sin. The thought of traditional life seems nice but that community is just batshit crazy
I’ve been told frequently that my disabled, childfree arse has no business at all being married or having sex (I was a victim of reproductive coercion once, having sex at all after that is a victory) and that I should just accept that my role is to have babies..regardless of the physical or mental harm that would do to me.
The ‘nicer’ ones just ‘pray for you to see the light’ and then go nasty when I mention I’m also Pagan..
I want to got married and have babies and even by a stay at home mom but I’m an evil whore for having sex and even living with my boyfriend before getting married. I saw a girl talking about being a nurse but having to stop working when she gets married because her boyfriend is a high school drop out and works as a mechanic and she couldn’t possibly have a better education or job then her boyfriend because it upsets him and that’s her fault. It’s so super toxic it hurts to read those types of things
I grew up surrounded by a lot of traditionalists, so I much prefer to ignore them, but I do want to point out that a majority of them are bigoted pieces of shit.
Seriously, a lot of traditionalists don’t believe that interracial marriages will work. Either the WOC is a gold digger or a trophy wife or just using them for a green card. Or the MOC is abusive or is a deadbeat.
Most are also weirdly against adoption. Especially for couples who can have children. I had this one teacher who got a lot of grief because she and her husband adopted their children instead of having them the “natural way”. It’s complete bullshit
I grew up with parents and grandparents like this. Exactly like how tobeyisprochoice, thecrazygeek-rant, and stupiddolly describe. To this day they’re still all like that, and have no interest in changing it. My mom and grandparent’s aren’t against adoption, but my dad is (although he’ll act like he’s not). I was raised to try and be brought up the exact same way, I see young friends with parents like this that are growing up (currently) to be the exact same way, and I hated it, and hate it to this day. I’ve heard things like “you’re not gay if you don’t have sex with someone of the same gender” (I’m on the ace and bi/pan spectrum), with my own two ears before, and watched my dad try to deny the scientific fact that we all start off with vaginas for a certain time of growth into a fully grown fetus. Which he still denies, saying it was literally made up so that we’d “have to be more accepting of trans people”.
People that refuse to be anything other than intolerant are the most intolerable, bat shit crazy assholes, and I wouldn’t exactly be upset if I saw less of them around.
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