Via Pics on Reddit as “Italian right wing prime minister Giorgia Meloni reacts to two girls kissing at the olympics”

Post was originally titled “Lesbian Kiss at the Olympics / Far Right Italian Prime Minister Reaction” but the pictures are unlikely to have been taken at the same event.

  • Lemvi@lemmy.sdf.org
    272·
    4 months ago

    I know that Alice Weidel, co-chairwoman of the german right-wing extremist party AfD is openly gay and in a relationship with a woman from Sri Lanka. Fun fact: while she actively tries to abolish same-sex marriage in Germany, her partner advocated for the introduction of same-sex marriage in switzerland.

  • bulwark@lemmy.worldEnglish
    190·
    4 months ago

    I love all the pearl clutching this Olympic season is causing. Good job France.

    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
      20·
      4 months ago

      What sort of world are we in where I’m cheering on France?

      Sorry about the racist/xenophobic/religious/batshit crazy American shitholes, world… They only represent 20-40% of us. They’re very loud… We can hear them more then you, trust me. We aren’t fond of them.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
        17·
        4 months ago

        The American right seems to be the world’s dumping ground for problematic individuals, e.g. Pierce Morgan and Nigel Farage.

        • PlexSheep@infosec.pub
          2·
          4 months ago

          Hating the French is considered funny by some, it’s a somewhat big meme in Germany at least. I’ve never found it funny and feel like it hurts the European community.

          Deutsch-Französische Freundschaft 💙

  • Freefall@lemmy.world
    137·
    4 months ago

    Gay stuff in the Olympics, eh? Sounds like they are taking The Games back to their roots! 👍🏻

      • irreticent@lemmy.world
        2·
        4 months ago

        I will never pass up the opportunity to remind people that nobody has seen Marjorie Taylor Green and Dog the Bounty Hunter in the same place at the same time.

        I contend that Marjorie Taylor Greene is Dog the Bounty Hunter in drag. Prove me wrong, MTG!

  • ObsidianZed@lemmy.world
    68·
    4 months ago

    Her eyes genuinely look like they’re watering up too. Considering the expression, I doubt it’s a wholesome tearjerking moment, but I still struggle to grasp the idea of someone becoming so full of eye watering rage over two people showing love to each other.

    I’m sure there are worse timelines but this definitely isn’t one of the good ones.

    • Potatisen@lemmy.world
      35·
      4 months ago

      To me it looks like she wants in, she’s been denying these feelings in herself for so long she that the freedom to express love like that, so freely and without hesitation must be bliss just outside of reach for her.

      • tabris@lemmy.world
        16·
        4 months ago

        Did we all just forget that her partner was caught setting up a threesome with another woman? Just because he was only caught once does not mean it was the only time. I think Georgia loves a fishy Friday.

    • sudneo@lemm.ee
      11·
      4 months ago

      The picture is from a completely different event, so unfortunately the two things are completely unrelated.

      Possibly she would have reacted similarly, who knows…

  • zib@lemmy.worldEnglish
    53·
    4 months ago

    That is the look of someone desperately trying to not be turned on at the exact moment they realize they’re fighting a losing battle.

      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
        18·
        4 months ago

        oh it absolutely does, it makes them have to constantly confront the fact that they’re not a perfectly straight and uncomplicated being, that almost everyone has more nuance to their identity than that, and it makes them very uncomfortable and afraid.

        the right wing is full of people who are suffused with internalized bigotry and are constantly bottling up their true identity, it’s sad as fuck

        • theangryseal@lemmy.world
          8·
          4 months ago

          They want order and structure above all things it seems. “These are the rules, I have followed them all of my life. I’ve been told that I’m battling a supernatural force and I’ve been winning. You don’t even try to fight it. You embrace it. I’m worried that god might not exist to punish you, so I want to punish you on his behalf. My children see you and they may think to themselves, “maybe I don’t have to follow these rules.” I’m afraid to face my neighbors and fellow churchgoers with a kid who sees your carefree, sinful lifestyle and chooses to embrace freedom over suffering. Life is suffering, and if you won’t suffer willingly then I’ll make you suffer.”

          I don’t know. I can’t get in anybody’s head, but I’ve known some seriously repressed and miserable people in my life.

          I knew a guy growing up, his dad was a preacher. When we were about 13-14 he asked me, “angryseal, have you ever given thought to being gay?” I told him I hadn’t, not seriously. He’s never said anything else about it but he is furiously homophobic today.

          • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
            1·
            4 months ago

            I knew a guy growing up, his dad was a preacher. When we were about 13-14 he asked me, “angryseal, have you ever given thought to being gay?” I told him I hadn’t, not seriously. He’s never said anything else about it but he is furiously homophobic today.

            Ouch. That is just… so tragic, and so stupid. I wonder if he was still processing. Obviously nothing to do with you, but if some adult in his life had just had the audacity to say like “I don’t know I don’t think there’s anything wrong with gay people” or somesuch. Well, you wonder if things could have gone differently for him.

  • pyre@lemmy.world
    46·
    4 months ago

    as a cishet, from the bottom of my heart: seethe. don’t even cope, which you clearly can’t. just die alone seething.

  • Juice@midwest.social
    40·
    4 months ago

    “If I can’t have it, noone can!”
    But you can hav—
    “I SAID NOONE CAN HAVE IT!!!”

    • laranis@lemmy.zip
      6·
      4 months ago

      That was my first thought as well… That glare is a case study in deep seeded anger over having repressed one’s true being for a lifetime and then seeing others have what you thought wasn’t possible.

        • Scary le Poo@beehaw.org
          3·
          4 months ago

          The point of the comment above yours went waaaaay over your head. Read it again.

          Aside from that, you are correct, some people are just awful, but they didn’t start out that way from the jump, usually.

          • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            1·
            4 months ago

            fascist creep is repressed queer therefore hateful of visible lesbian romance is blaming homophobia on repressed queer people.

              • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                1·
                4 months ago

                Well, rather than gloating about how stupid I am and failing to uphold the standards of behaviour of the community you registered at. Why don’t you explain what you think the person was referring to wrt envy etc? Or are you more interested in mockery than being helpful?

                • Scary le Poo@beehaw.org
                  1·
                  4 months ago

                  You seemed to not understand what they were saying, which was that Meloni is sitting there with deep seated rage and jealousy. She has repressed her feelings her entire life. She has even persecuted others for not repressing themselves. But here, at the Olympics, in front of everyone, here are 2 people just being themselves, as she longs to be. Seeing this brings up deep seated rage and jealousy.

                  So what people are noticing is that that expression is not disgust. That expression is jealousy and rage. I would go so far as to say that to me it looks like she is crying on the inside.