Situational cuteness: Why do women love victims so much?

In July 2015, some rich dentist went to Zimbabwe and killed a lion named Cecil. This was a massive deal in America because lions are cuter than starving African children. Well, starving African children who are being starved by a black dictator rather than a famine aren’t as cute as lions. Kind of odd, that.

I have said the same thing about illegal immigrants. If after being amnestied they voted 60% Republican and did everything they could to do away with abortion and gay rights, then the left would have built two walls under Joe Biden. Like hungry African children, their cuteness is dependent on how they fit in with the political landscape.

Most of you are familiar with the Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde, who gave that silly speech at the inaugural prayer. She probably was upset about Cecil the lion. I found Trump’s X post a bit hyperbolic, but ultimately, it was a political win because Trump included the all-important line, “She failed to mention the large number of illegal migrants that came into our Country and killed people. Many were deposited from jails and mental institutions. It is a giant crime wave that is taking place the USA.” (Post by President Trump on X Jan 22, 2025)

Basically he is pushing back against the mainstream media that depicts illegal immigrants as being adorable, culturally enriching migrants who never do anything wrong and never lower the wages of poor American citizens. From the leftist perspective, why are poor American citizens less adorable than non-American citizens? Do they forget the fact that American citizens have eyes, hands and organs and dimensions? Are they not healed by the same medicines and made fat by the same foods? If violence is done against a citizen, does he not have the right to justice against an illegal? Should not the illegal be deported back to their native land?

As the example of the Latin countries has taught me, I will execute, and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction.

So why do illegal Latino immigrants count more than legal American citizens of any color in the left’s hierarchy of victimhood? After some contemplation, I have figured out this conundrum. The hard left is quite similar to racists in that the characteristics of the actual population aren't relevant but the characteristics of the population in your head are. In the Episcopalian Bishop’s head, illegal immigrants are law-abiding while being illegal. Also, Latinos are oppressed so they are nicer to the LGBTQ+ <>> P people than those mean Trump supporters. Most importantly, illegal immigrants are victims so they count more than legal citizens.

I have seen this before with lefty women. Not even just lefty white women but lefty women in general. Women love victims. I don’t get it, but they do. A lovely bartender told me that Christians wanted to refuse service to homosexual couples. I said that I had never heard of any Christian denying food services to homosexuals but that they just wouldn’t make them a cake celebrating their homosexuality or catering their gay wedding. A homosexual could go into a Christian baker’s shop and buy any cake he/she/they wanted, and he could get a customized cake celebrating his birthday or a job promotion. She stared at me with amazement, though she confessed that she had not done as much research as I did.

A similar experience happened with a Mexican-American lady. Apparently, Ron DeSantis was telling kids not to be gay in Florida. In reality, he told teachers not to teach about sex. This was a good idea because Desantis knew that teachers were often radicalized by the educational establishment and wanted to trans kids. Somehow that meant that Republicans were going around harassing various alphabet children.

I could go on with various examples, but that would get repetitive, so let’s go with the most laughable one: Queers for Palestine. Never before has the feminine desire for victimhood been more absurd or more hilarious. Generations ago, leftists fantasized about the USSR or Cuba as paradises for workers and paragons of secular humanity. At the very least, such dreams existed in an age before Google and instant video feeds from other countries. How were the readers of the New York Times supposed to know that Walter Duranty made everything up?

What is so richly funny about Queers for Palestine is that it is the paramount embodiment of fantasy over reality. Because the Palestinians are part of the coalition of the oppressed, it must be believed that the people who voted in Hamas are aligned with purple-haired Gaia worshippers in a social justice-oriented polycule.

This is like giving a Bud Light contract to Dylan Mulvaney and expecting working-class white guys to go along with it. Oh, wait…

That last example involved the free market, so reality eventually had to overwhelm ideology. The Budweiser company saw their profit margins going down, and they had to change their ad campaign and bring back the cool-looking big horses, narrated by a voice that sounded like Tennessee Whiskey, and given life by a magic cowboy hat like Frosty the Snowman.*

Speaking about fantasy stuff that makes no sense (like a hat with magic powers that gives life akin to a Jewish shem), the Queers for Palestine ideology is emotionally appealing and it works in a fictional universe. But in the real world, violent Muslims act like violent Muslims, and they don’t much care what the people with degrees in gender studies think.

To paraphrase Ben Shapiro, population groups don’t care about your theories.

*I think that would be a fun indie comic.

**Frosty is likely a golem. Possibly of Jewish origin.