Judy Blume & Dylan Mulvaney

My God this is so disappointing.
What a betrayal of young girls for Judy Blume to speak to this man pretending to be a girl about the experience of developing female bodies.

It's grotesque.

Shame on you Judy Blume.

She's needs a backlash against this stronger than the one she got for supporting JKR.

So disappointing.
I adored Judy Blume's books back in the day. Her books resonated with pre teen me so much.
Can we ( women) have anything for ourselves?

Oh that’s a fucking let down isn’t it? What a stupid insulting thing to do.

The book is about teenage female puberty.
Dylan has not went through teenage female puberty, or female puberty at any age.
What the hell is Judy Blume playing at?
She could have picked a young female sports person to chat to but has chosen to talk about this with a person who has not went through female puberty. Dylan growing breasts as a result of hormones will NEVER NEVER understand what teenage girls deal with regarding puberty. Never.

This has to fucking stop

I'm so disappointed in Judy.

I will if I ever see them, but before I would have bought or borrowed from the library.
No way I'm doing that now.
By the time girls reach puberty it will probably be banned and burned for representing transphobic reality anyway.
Or this shit will have ended, but I keep hoping for people to regain sanity and they keep disappointing me.

But remember to divorce the art from the artist.

The book may be marvellous but the author has just backed an ideology that is hugely harmful to women and girls.

@DobbysTeaCosy, don't let your dds miss out on some wonderfully woman-positive books. Buy them secondhand or borrow from the library.

My sisters and I were going to take our daughters next weekend...now I'm feeling rather grim about it. Dylan fucking Mulvaney - that prick who mocks girls. FFS, how could Judy Blume sink so low? Does her PR team hate her? It's losing all the magic for me.

I 100% agree that it is stupid, inappropriate and offensive to use an offensive, misogynistic womanfacer to 'promote' AYTGIMM, a story entirely about a female child's experiences as she navigates puberty.

But I wonder whether the producers thought they were being clever, because AYTGIMM is not just about the biological experiences of beginning the transition to womanhood. It is also about choosing an identity. Margaret tries to work out whether she wants to be Christian or Jewish, for example. Maybe they thought they were being so clever by drawing a parallel with a male adult choosing an identity.

Why do you think that?

I think you're massively overreacting.

I can't even watch this, it had made me fucking furious. How dare he, how bloody dare he. These books were what we grew up with, went through puberty with. The absolute insult of him taking about female puberty.

This 100%, would have taken Dd (and maybe some friends) now I won't.

She is doing publicity for the film and I would say her PR team thinks this is a good opportunity to ‘fix’ that JKR support issue while getting exposure to a particular target audience. If this was a film review show and a man interviewed her in his capacity as a film reviewer or presenter, I wouldn’t have a problem.

However, this is a male influencer celebrating ‘girlhood’ and being celebrated in turn for their wondrous journey. This is a slap in the face to any girl who is seeking girls and women to inspire them.

Maybe she thought Dylan was genuinely interested and would learn something - such as realizing the completely different experience of male vs female puberty.

He’s the fool here for continuing this weird imposture. Why let his irritating persona ruin JB’s much more significant work?

Does DM claim to have read the book as a child? I think the poster who stated he's a grifter is right. I hope to goodness no one casts Mulvaney in any female theatre roles in future.

Oh and she's doubly fucking stupid because now when the film flops the genderists can say there's no appetite for biological reality in media.
But the people who are fans of reality will be put off.

Well, not only is she a coward her and her team are fucking stupid.
In 2023 cinema is not king. Films are competing with streaming platforms at the cinema and hundreds of series, not to mention tiktok and gaming.
Who has to drive their 9-13 year old girls to the cinema? It's the cunty mums who gave birth and definitely know what a woman is.
Sure, some girls might stumble across it on streaming platforms but she's lost a whole, 'use it for sex ed' parent audience.
Ok the trans purists will now flock to it but judging by Hogwarts legacy they've not got much pulling power.
Polarising people on this means she's literally cut her potential audience in half.
Won't be watching ever, and definitely would have done. Of a generation that must have missed her book. Avid reader. Mother of girls. Won't be buying her books either.
Both her and Atwood are cowards and I'm setting fire to that golden bridge in this case.
They can fucking swim back.

That was me too!

I used to vomit and faint. I would lie on the toilet floor in school because the tile was cool. My lower back would throb with a dull, pounding pain, while my whole pelvis felt like it was being excavated. The only thing I could do was sleep it off.

Awful until my late teens /early 20s when it eased.

Dylan Mulvaney, if he had any decency at all, would walk away.

What’s with his Mary Tyler Moore hairdo?

JB is cowardly. Does she need the money THAT much?? Utterly infuriating that when dylan encroaches on male territory (bud light) the world ends and a massive brand feels the pain, but nothing really came of the nike bra sponsorship, and now this!

It probably would have made more sense for Timothee Chalamet to be interviewed about periods and teens-he is also an adult male but at least appeals to teen girls.
He could have talked about his lived experience, while not pretending to be a girl.
It makes me so mad.

A fully adult male no less, who isn't veing treated like that but as a 14yr old girl it seems. How is that OK? Wtf? Seriously, are you there god?