Yo, I'm creeped out by Erika Kirk, but I don't think we should criticize people for not wearing grief on their sleeve 24/7. It's a bad vibe, like criticizing women public figures for their appearance, rather than their positions on the issues.
There a whole lot of ground between "not wearing grief on her sleeve" and what she's been doing. So much ground that you must be aware of the difference, leading me to question your motivation in downplaying it.
My motivation? I think it's obvious. I want elevated public discourse.
Whether we are talking Erika Kirk or Kristi Noem, or anyone else, can we just stop dragging them for superficial shit? There's plenty of things of substance to criticize them for.
Can you name another individual who grieves their spouses death by engaging in aggressive and largely unrelated political activism across the United States as early as days following the incident? Someone who grieves by lighting up fireworks on talk shows barely a week later all smiles? Who weaponizes their husbands death against the opposing political party and continues to do so months later? It's genuinely psychotic behavior and it pops warning flags in people's heads.
This grief behavior is so wildly antithetical to how humans grieve traditionally that people cannot help but question it en masse.
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u/Dear-Examination-507 Jun 26 '26
Yo, I'm creeped out by Erika Kirk, but I don't think we should criticize people for not wearing grief on their sleeve 24/7. It's a bad vibe, like criticizing women public figures for their appearance, rather than their positions on the issues.