Nike choose Dylan Mulvaney to promote womens sportswear range.

Probably because actual athletes are now refusing to work with Nike because they treat them like shit.

Over the past several years Nike has faced a number of scandals over how it treats female employees and sponsored athletes. Women have spoken up about a toxic atmosphere at Nike’s headquarters in Beaverton, Ore., andabout sponsorship contracts that penalize athletes who become pregnant. Also a Nike coach was accused of verbally abusing female runners and was suspended by the U.S. Center for SafeSport.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/23/sports/olympics/simone-biles-athleta-nike.html

Just looked and Nike spends about $3B in advertising annually. The janitor probably has approval authority to spend $50K.

I saw that, I think it's kind of typical for influencers and brands like Nike, though?
It's nothing to them. I think they base the $ on number of followers, reach, etc?

This person is a hot topic right now and has the backing of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris. The US is a very weird place now. It's Emperor's new clothes on steroids.

An absolute dick move by Nike.

It's been reported he got around $50-75k for it...

It's just an instagram sponsorship, they probably have some low-level idiot handing these out like candy to whomever they personally like. And now Nike won't know what to say, they are painted into a corner.

My post re: Nike was deleted but lets just say this is par for the course. I am so tired of corporations pretending like people matter for anything other than their money.

Bye bye Nike.

Plenty of other good brands out there for women

But there was a thread the other day that “Women’s Health” that had that woman from “Love Island” sitting astride a bike with a tight leotard … it’s like women can’t desire to be heathy anymore. The vast majority of women will be gym goers - why is it so sexualised? My daughter has grown up in a family of team sports (not me!). Her aunt played hockey and now rugby, my daughter plays football. They don’t care about image but unless you’re into team sports, that’s the image projected.

That's what I was wondering too. If only Nike actually made shoes of some sort too!

So why haven't they chosen a female model with a broad back? Or a female model with small breasts? To model women's clothes?

Or you know, an actual athlete?

Not a pretender jumping about like something out of In The Night Garden?

It’s SUCH a serious insult to women to use this awful un- sportslike person to promote bras for WOMEN.
Nike must have done it to be controversial.

Idiot move.

My niece is. By the time we got to the toilets the flasher was long gone. I think my sister would also have put her bollocks away for good.

Less than 1% of sports sponsorship in the US goes to women.

Thank you DM for whittling that tiny percentage down a bit further.

Are you me?! I have AA breasts so don’t wear a bra unless to run. My BF is a 6’ 1” woman of Nigerian descent!

Nike aren’t trying to be inclusive to women - they could have used me. Middle-aged, slower than what I was, sweat more than I did but I do have tiny breasts (and a mum pouch).

If I ever met a woman with her penis out I would her to put her bollocks away because I’m old and pissed off at the world.

If my Yr 7 daughter met a woman with her penis out she would be scarred for life.

I understand that it's not the point people are trying to make but some of the 'male' characteristics here are also characteristics shared by biological women. I have tiny breasts, that doesn't make me masculine and I have a friend who is female, was born female and yet is 6ft tall and has large feet - larger than her husbands in fact. Nike have a made a shit choice, but not all biological women fit the same mold.

I'll try again...

If she has she clearly has no inclination to behave like one.

I wonder what the women she knows really think.

Odd that Dylan isn’t wearing shoes

I'm doing well today. My second deletion!

I watched one of Dylans videos once, well it was a response from Magdalen Berns to Dylan’s video. Dylan has/ had a girlfriend who identifies as a lesbian apparently.

I miss Magdalen Berns.

Does anyone know if Dylan has actually ever met a woman? It seems like maybe not, based on what he seems to think one is.

If Dylan wants to ‘feel like a woman’ he can try getting up through the night every hour for two years.

I carry spares with me as I have an unpredictable flow. If asked I would give but I've never been asked.

I've encountered a few trans men in the Ladies' toilets and felt uncomfortable enough to leave and find another. My 13 year-old niece walked in on one with a lifted dress "drying his penis" and was deeply shocked and upset. She still refuses to use public toilets alone.

I find it very disturbing that an intact man would be in the Ladies' offering tampons out in the first place.