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    1 year ago

    It’s not so weird, it’s just that right-wingers have no imagination, and so many of their smears are of the I-know-you-are-but-what-am-I variety. (ETA: See also, the “Joe Biden has dementia” thing.) The “Michelle Obama is a man” thing came about because a lot of people used to joke that Ann Coulter is a trans-woman because of her prominent Adam’s apple. (Which she really does have.)

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        They certainly were, and it’s possible the Michelle Obama thing came from nowhere, but it came about so soon after the Ann Coulter thing, I think it was reaction. Especially since right-wing talking points have so often echoed criticism and jokes about them.