He amped the American people up and painted 50s Democrats as Communist sympathizers, and also progressive actions as communist. While I doubt that he caught any real commies, he definitely targeted homosexuals after the Tydings committee. Essentially, in the "fight against the Reds" McCarthy attempted to criminalize anything he found squicky, and it led to a lot of enforced stereotypes. )reddithotmeme subreddit - sends an Image(or a link) from subreddit. Then Mccarthyism took the natural cycle of conservative to progressive and dumped it on its head. When you get done with WW2, you get a lot of people finding religion and society as a whole becoming a bit more conservative. We had a supposedly gay president at one point, and one of the heroes of the Revolutionary War was flamingly gay and also maybe Santa Clause. It wasn't uncommon to have people comfortable with gay or lesbian lovers prior to ww2. There are volumes written on the way our film culture presents masculinity, the role of women, and let's not even start with queer theory.Ĭold War reinforced a lot of stereotypes. Hamm vouches for Potato Head by moving between him and Tour Guide Barbie, saying, Then make room for the single fellas. Our cultural dominance on the world stage is most evident in film, for the most part, films from non English speaking countries don't even make it on the radar in the US, the exception of the recent Asian explosion that the internet has enabled. Where you can talk about the US export of homophobia specifically, we turn to Hollywood.
Plenty of cultures, before meeting with our western Christian culture had 3rd genders, free sexual association, polyamory, women as equals or even leaders in society, after they became much more regressive on these issues. While post WWII the US eliminated colonial imperialism, they found a new way, through economic meddling, to continue the wealth extraction and cultural destruction to keep the functions of imperialism ongoing.Ĭhristianity, especially Catholicism and Mormonism have aggressively spread a specific idea of masculinity of femininity, and of the roles of gender, of which both only believe in two. However, the primary method by which that has occurred is imperialism. It's more accurate to denote the role of Christianity spreading homophobia and transphobia around the world.