Don't Cry for Me Privileged-tina; Welcome to The Real World

America's Deadliest Transportation Secretary, Sean Duffy, shown here with his wife and daughter prior to his blood-filled, violent tenure as Trans-Sec

Over the holidays, Evita Duffy-Alonso, the daughter of MTV power couple Sean Duffy (Real World: Boston) and Rachel Campos-Duffy (Real World: San Francisco),complained about airport security during her travels. (See article "Sean Duffy's daughter slams..." Duffy-Alonso, who was pregnant at the time, complained about receiving a body-pat down for not wanting to go through a body scanner. She complained on social media that she “nearly missed my flight this morning after TSA made me wait 15 minutes for a pat-down because I’m pregnant…” It was surprising to hear this coming from a child of the Trump administration, and from the daughter of America’s Deadliest Transportation Secretary ever, a man who has presided over nearly 60 fatal plane crashes resulting in over 188 deaths. I was surprised since it sounds as though she was asking for an accommodation due to her pregnancy. If anything, that the Trump administration has made abundantly clear through their excuses for real legislative action on issues (i.e. Executive Orders) is that people should not be treated differently due to conditions or their identities. Trump has spent the last year erasing protections for people, especially people who need and are legally entitled to support. Furthermore, with GOP states restricting the travel of pregnant women, Duffy-Alonso should be happy that she is allowed to travel without a male chaperone. If she lived in the Republic of Texistan, surely as a pregnant woman, she would need to seek a patriarchal companion to accompany her as she sought to travel outside of state lines. Maybe this was just a brief trip within state lines, but it made me wonder about those words from JD Vance, or maybe it was Nick Fuentes (I sometimes struggle to tell these young, white MAGA followers) who said “Your body, his choice.” Surely Duffy-Alonso realized that like the rest of us, she is living in Trump’s America now—and that by choosing not to monetize her pregnancy or become a trad-wife, she was entering into a danger zone where she has no body autonomy, no agency, and apparently no privileges. It’s like that dinner scene in Freaks, where she’s become one of us. Gooble Gabba, one of us. We accept her, one of us. Don’t cry for me, privileged-tina, but rather welcome to The Real World. I’m sure you’ll learn the Road Rules soon enough.

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I’ve also heard that since Paramount has been taken over by David Ellison, Trump has asked him to digitally remove Pedro Zamora from The Real World: San Francisco episodes. Trump felt that it was disrespectful to have a gay man with AIDS on TV, although he used much more colorful language to describe Pedro, and that he believed it would be a bad influence in children. Sources have reported that prior to digitally removing Pedro, Tricia McLaughlin, the Assistant Secretary of DHS, tried to have Pedro Zamora deported to Mexico, only to realize that he died over 30 years ago. Nevertheless, McLaughlin has noted that “illegals” like Zamora come to America with diseases and put Americans at risk. McLaughlin also noted that Zamora would be counted towards current deportation numbers, even though he died in 1994.