The disgusting remark about Mrs. Obama last night was not an aberration.
For many years, the rightwing has been pushing a deeply racist conspiracy theory that she’s a trans woman, which is, of course, drawn from a dehumanizing and thoroughly absurd-on-its-face trope that Black women can’t be feminine.
This particular slander against Mrs. Obama has been going on for many years, and watching some quarters of conservative media pretend to be offended by the same remark that they’ve enabled in online spaces all this time strikes me as pretty goddamn pathetic and dishonorable.
But it’s not surprising. I would expect nothing different from Trump and his most ardent supporters.
Any woman they don’t like—let alone hate—particularly Black women, aren’t “real women.”
This is what they do. It’s not accidental.
Don’t let them claim otherwise.