Transphobia, the Interrupting Cow

Prejudice obstructs continuous and coherent thought

Crying by Saydung89 on Pixabay

Seven months into covid, we who were paying attention to Twitter were horror-tickled by this Kim Kardashian tweet:

Let us pause to admire the perfect insta-celebrity of the sentence:

• Every reader felt “2 weeks of multiple health screens and asking everyone to quarantine” was highly relatable;
• No one related to “I surprised my closest inner circle with a trip to a private island” (except that on Twitter a second billionaire sometimes chimed in to affirm the first billionaire’s alternate universe, which was part of the magic of that platform in its glory days);
• “Pretend things were normal” seemed a stage direction (say it with an exclamation point, as if it were normal!), and by such abracadabra magicianship, a fantasy might have become a reality (but we know this only applied to reality TV stars like Kim Kardashian);
• Wishing for pre-covid normality was a near-universal covid-era sentiment, but it tended to equate to ignoring the virus which was controversial behavior, and controversy plays well on Twitter (at…