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ProudCat · 31/10/2025 22:52

Sorry, can't see it as I don't use X - ya know, due to the fact that it's run by a really shady bloke who doesn't seem to treat women very well. Not sure why she wants to build his company for him.

DialSquare · 31/10/2025 22:36

AccidentallyWesAnderson · 31/10/2025 22:01

Would you be happy if one of them excelled in say, swimming, and a male who was mediocre in the men’s, ‘transitioned’ aka just said ‘I’m a woman now’ and competed against your daughter, with all the physiological advantages being a male brings in sport?

I genuinely think she would be happy with that. Her poor daughters.

lifeturnsonadime · 31/10/2025 22:24

ByShyRaven · 31/10/2025 21:29

Ha ok.

yes, I have two daughters. But luckily I’m bringing them up as proud feminists in a multi cultural left leaning city that doesn’t punch down on minorities.

Blimey, men in dresses are not 'minorities'.

Centring males is not feminism,

Hopefully your daughters will set you right on this more and more young people are seeing trans activism for the inherent mysogyny that it is.

AccidentallyWesAnderson · 31/10/2025 22:01

ByShyRaven · 31/10/2025 21:29

Ha ok.

yes, I have two daughters. But luckily I’m bringing them up as proud feminists in a multi cultural left leaning city that doesn’t punch down on minorities.

Would you be happy if one of them excelled in say, swimming, and a male who was mediocre in the men’s, ‘transitioned’ aka just said ‘I’m a woman now’ and competed against your daughter, with all the physiological advantages being a male brings in sport?

SabrinaThwaite · 31/10/2025 21:52

ZoeCM · 31/10/2025 18:04

Didn't Glamour name Caitlyn Jenner one of their Women of the Year ten years ago? And now they've gone the whole hog and named nine TIMs Women of the Year. It's beyond parody. They said women were paranoid for saying TIMs were replacing women, and now look what's happening.

Edited

TBF, it’s Shon Faye that has claimed nine TIMs as Women of the Year. And included himself in there.

Grifters gonna grift.

EasternStandard · 31/10/2025 21:41

ByShyRaven · 31/10/2025 21:29

Ha ok.

yes, I have two daughters. But luckily I’m bringing them up as proud feminists in a multi cultural left leaning city that doesn’t punch down on minorities.

Do you teach them a girl can dress however they like and do whatever they want but their sex can’t change?

WildCats24 · 31/10/2025 21:36

ByShyRaven · 31/10/2025 21:29

Ha ok.

yes, I have two daughters. But luckily I’m bringing them up as proud feminists in a multi cultural left leaning city that doesn’t punch down on minorities.

Women still have to overcome the glass ceiling, the gender pay gap, and all that jazz. How is 9 XY people being named “Women of the Year” and 0 XX people being given that title not “punching down”?

ByShyRaven · 31/10/2025 21:29

AngryBird6122 · 31/10/2025 19:09

@ByShyRaven SHAME ON YOU. and i feel sorry for your daughters if you have any.

Ha ok.

yes, I have two daughters. But luckily I’m bringing them up as proud feminists in a multi cultural left leaning city that doesn’t punch down on minorities.

BellaTrixLeStrange1 · 31/10/2025 20:19

I’m with you! If looking like someone on the cover of that magazine is what makes you a woman, I’m definitely not a woman. I’m flat chested, not particularly attractive, have short hair, don’t wear make up and wear flat shoes… so does that make me a man?! Fortunately I’m too busy carrying the mental load of my entire family, and managing the long term physical damage of child birth, to spend too much time worrying about this.

localnotail · 31/10/2025 19:41

Dolls - as in plastic, soulless and cold? Are they happy to be called that?

EasternStandard · 31/10/2025 19:19

Jumpingthruhoops · 31/10/2025 19:12

Of course she's right. Biological women are being trolled at this point. Didn't Glamour go from monthly to quarterly a while back because sales weren't great? Go figure...

Yes it feels like this.

Scout2016 · 31/10/2025 19:17

Talkinpeace · 31/10/2025 18:45

Please remember that Monroe Bergdorf
may have had surgery on his face and boobs
he still has full block and tackle (playboy photo shoot is proof)

And was sacked by NSPCC as a safeguarding concern after suggesting kids contact him, an unknown adult man, directly via social media.
The whole glitter family shit is going to throw up a lot of skeletons before long, as has started happening with alphabet youth groups in Scotland.

Jumpingthruhoops · 31/10/2025 19:12

AngryBird6122 · 31/10/2025 14:17

https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1983848989213553091?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

aibu to think she is spot on? shame on glamour magazine (does anyone still read it?)

Of course she's right. Biological women are being trolled at this point. Didn't Glamour go from monthly to quarterly a while back because sales weren't great? Go figure...

AngryBird6122 · 31/10/2025 19:09

@ByShyRaven SHAME ON YOU. and i feel sorry for your daughters if you have any.

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Talkinpeace · 31/10/2025 18:45

Please remember that Monroe Bergdorf
may have had surgery on his face and boobs
he still has full block and tackle (playboy photo shoot is proof)

halfandhalfchipsandrice · 31/10/2025 18:37

BlueIndigoScarlet · 31/10/2025 14:30

In years to come people are going to look back on this period in history and think society had collectively lost its mind

I often think that I can't believe what I'm reading/seeing. I mean it's just surreal isn't it. Women having to put up with this shit in 2025. Unbefuckinglievable.

YouCantProveIt · 31/10/2025 18:16

ByShyRaven · 31/10/2025 16:40

YABU. Great response from Glamour. Hatred of trans people is no different to the past prevalence and social acceptance of homophobia. Shame on anyone who agrees with JK Rowling.

That will be me then.

Men who had have body modifications to deal with a medical condition- namely body dysphoria - does not a woman make.

Nothing to be scared of - I am not trans phobic - but I am trans realistic. The only thing trans women have in common is that they are all men.

fabricstash · 31/10/2025 18:13

Victoria Smith has a great article in Unherd on this
unherd.com/newsroom/glamour-magazines-trans-cover-shames-women/

MorrisZapp · 31/10/2025 18:09

Have we entered a glitch in the matrix? Surely this stuff got left behind ten years ago?

Let's play bingo on the murky online footprints of these 9 chancers, it's only fair we keep the dream alive by celebrating pervs and crims.

WildCats24 · 31/10/2025 18:08

MyrtleLion · 31/10/2025 16:34

How disgusting to call women dolls. We are real people, not delicate princesses to be handled with care.

Transwomen are always about the beauty and sexy, never about the mental load, doing the laundry or the dishes and sorting out the car insurance.

Yes…they’re the bad tropes of women with big tits tittering around in heels. Never the frazzled mum with a baby on the nipple whilst answering a school email about the PTA tombola.

BackToLurk · 31/10/2025 18:08

ZoeCM · 31/10/2025 18:04

Didn't Glamour name Caitlyn Jenner one of their Women of the Year ten years ago? And now they've gone the whole hog and named nine TIMs Women of the Year. It's beyond parody. They said women were paranoid for saying TIMs were replacing women, and now look what's happening.

Edited

Yep. If you're going to pick a Kardashian/Jenner for a woman of the year award maybe go for the one who campaigns to raise the profile of the Armenian genocide rather than the one with a prostate.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 31/10/2025 18:06

That was supposedly the zeitgeist then, it isn’t any more. That ship has sailed, lads, and Glamour just look ridiculous.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 31/10/2025 18:05

ZoeCM · 31/10/2025 18:04

Didn't Glamour name Caitlyn Jenner one of their Women of the Year ten years ago? And now they've gone the whole hog and named nine TIMs Women of the Year. It's beyond parody. They said women were paranoid for saying TIMs were replacing women, and now look what's happening.

Edited

Yes, think that was American Glamour mag.

ZoeCM · 31/10/2025 18:04

Didn't Glamour name Caitlyn Jenner one of their Women of the Year ten years ago? And now they've gone the whole hog and named nine TIMs Women of the Year. It's beyond parody. They said women were paranoid for saying TIMs were replacing women, and now look what's happening.

Arraminta · 31/10/2025 18:02

hihelenhi · 31/10/2025 17:30

Isn't it?

So much hatred and bile.

Still, throughout history, there have always been regressive misogynists and their silly "I totally love being subjugated, me" handmaidens hating on feminist women, trying to prove how 'cool' they supposedly are. Funny to see they're all still out in force. Patriarchy & its pathetic enablers never fully dies away, I see.

True. One of my closest friends is a GP. When she was at medical school she encountered an older Matron who accused her of 'stealing a student place that should have gone to a boy.'