Isn't it odd that our rights are a ''cultrual'' issue?
I was listening to Vox today explained and they were talking aobut how the progressive politicans in the u.s need to rebrand because they've been to focused on ''cultrual issues'' such as trans rights, abortion rights instead of ''affordability''.
And it's just like... how is people's rights to healthcare, to bodily autonomy, to protection against discrimination, a cultrual issue? Because why? Because the cultrual ideas and norms say we shouldn't have these rights? Didn't cultrual and social norms used to say that working 6 days a week, 18 hours was good, that kids working factory jobs was good because ''it made real men out of them'' or what the fuck ever. Is that not a cultrual issue in the same way then?
Or the damn ''male lonliness epidemic'' that I hear so much about, I don't think I've ever heard someone frame cishet men's issues as ''cultrual issues''. Maybe I'm wrong but I just felt some type of way, and I don't really have all my thoughts together about it yet, but it just feels dismissive to call it ''cultrual issues'' rather than civil liberties and human rights issues. And I think it just feeds into this idea that you can have either lgbtq/women's rights or affordability, not both. Like this very right wing idea that we either focus on ''the economy'' or civil liberties, when like.. these are linked. Civil liberties is the economy is for. Healthcare is what the economy is for. People's ability to plan when they have children helps their economy, for generations, and their communitys economy. People's ability to have access to healthcare helps their economy, helps the economy of their community. Without free trans healthcare I would either be in a horrible financial state, or dead. I don't know. What do you think?