"12. Since both permanent war and heroism are difficult games to play, the Ur-Fascist transfers his will to power to sexual matters. This is the origin of *machismo* (which implies both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality). Since even sex is a difficult game to play, the Ur-Fascist hero tends to play with weapons—doing so becomes an ersatz phallic exercise." ### Commentary
I emphasize disdain for women because that's vastly increased in the US in this century (and in other countries, I understand).
It's tedious to discuss this because someone like J.D. Vance can always say he doesn't despise *women*, just "childless cat ladies 
" or that he so honors women that he wants them to achieve their full potential and isn't it outrageous to say parenthood isn't a part of the fulfilled life?" Or that saying businesses need more "masculine energy " and should "celebrate aggression a bit more" in no way means that the speaker doesn't *also* celebrate female energy and the ladies' nurturing nature.
So I won't.
It's interesting that for many in the manosphere , women are both too strong and too weak. They simultaneously lack the cojones to run a business aggressively enough *and* they somehow forced businesses into their image. They are simultaneously easy to trick into bed but also wield power over men by capriciously withholding sexual favors .
When it comes to "nonstandard sexual habits," the ire toward transgender is off the charts, far disproportionate to their numbers. It's worth noting that the Nazis were also particularly exercised by transgender people and cross-dressing . Perhaps that's because the existence of such people is a challenge to the idea of a gender hierarchy, something close to the heart of the fascist.
I don't follow these things closely, but male->female transgender people seem to get the most attention. Perhaps that's because they're traitors to the naturally-dominant gender. They're repudiating an identity the fascist male cherishes. They've chosen to become weak and have so earned the fascist's natural contempt for the weak. (Contrarily, if you were so unfortunate as to be born a woman, wouldn't you wish fate hadn't dealt you such a blow? Who *wouldn't* want to be a man, were it not wrong to step out of your birth-assigned place in the hierarchy?)
Yet, at the same time, these fake women retain their masculine strength and use it to compete with weaker women (in sports) – placing themselves outside the natural system where men protect women from other men.
Moreover, the power of trans people exceeds that of parents – a bit of exposure to a trans person is apparently more powerfully convincing to a child than years and years of parental attention. Like Jews, they're sneaky that way.
Both strong and weak, both strong and weak – it gets tiresome.
The same "grooming" assumption is applied to gays (though less so lesbians, it seems?). But once you get outside the domain of protecting children, gays and lesbians seem not (yet) targets. "What consenting adults do in their own homes is their business" – a relatively recent attitude – seems to be holding. Someone like Pete Buttigieg is still acceptable in the public sphere, so long as he presents as a boring married person. Gay people whose only deviation from acceptability is the biological sex of their partner are still fine (until the fascist creeps himself out by wondering "which one of them is the man?" – that is, who is dominant).
Notably , "A page on the State Department’s website that had, up until last week, provided information for “LGBTQI Travelers” now addresses only “LGB Travelers.” Similarly, a State Department web page providing “Resources for LGBTQI+ Prospective Adoptive Parents“ now just says “LGB Prospective Adoptive Parents.”
It's OK to describe the Stonewall riot, but only if you erase the role of transgender people.
Frankly, I think American fascists prefer Buttigieg-style gays to women, or at least to women who display masculine traits like aggression. At least he's not a *girl*.
Still: were I gay, I'd worry I'll soon be moving up the enemy's list.