She was used to being isolated. She was one of only a few women in a fire department of about 100 employees, and even though she tried to fit in by sleeping at the firehouse two nights each week — even though she had won E.M.T. of the Year, passed all the fitness tests, registered as a Republican, collected guns and voted for Trump in 2016 — she was always defined by the ways she stood apart. A vegetarian. A bisexual. A single woman with dyed pink hair and facial piercings among a sea of mostly white, Christian, conservative men.
to save lives as a paramedic trainer and firefighter?
The group I meant was Trump voters, not firefighters. I would have been more specific if I had realized the comment might have been interpreted as being anti firefighters and EMTs, and pro conservative/Trump.
Because the article says “voted for Trump in 2016” instead of any later year, I suspect that she is no longer a Trump supporter.
You’re probably right, particularly since it is pretty likely that current supporters would not have said good riddance in response to Kirk’s death.
I think I am just so angry about the current state of affairs and all the shit Trump keeps getting away with that I was reflexively hostile on seeing “voted for Trump”.
Maybe. But if that’s all she wanted to do, she could just concentrate on that. It sounds like she went above board to fit in.