Spiked’s O’Neill on Dylan Mulvaney’s Creepy Sexism

Takes more than a pair of fake tts to be a woman - he's a BLOKE! I'll call you whatever you want Dylan, but at the end of the day, you're a bloke ... get over it.

Bud Light - an ultaprocessed product enabled by industrial and chemical technology and forced into popularity through aggressive branding and marketting. Seems like Mulvaney is a good match TBF.

I never believed any of his shtick
An overgrown theatre kid who's limited prospects of success were further diminished by Covid, he took to social media to do his appallingly misogynistic 365 days of girlhood.
Off the back of his inexplicably large TikTok following, he got picked up by more mainstream media and the brands soon followed.

Fame and fortune, success and adoration lay at his large manly feet, and by then it was too late to back out and say it was all a big joke, a pastiche, or even a massive hoax to show the world the ludicrosity of gender woo.
So he went all in and is milking it for all its worth.

But, as with so many one hit wonders, soon enough people will tire of his act, and one by one those who fawned over him, feted his stunning & brave existence and kneeled in front of those large manly feet will quietly exit stage left.
He'll probably end up doing Big Brother or some other desperate low rent reality show, before fading into blissful obscurity.

Sooner rather than later, I can only hope.

Fully agree with this.

He's a performative bellend.

I read the times article. It was so disappointing that they indulged him, referring to him as “she” throughout. There’s nothing “female” or remotely “feminine “ about him. He’s a bloke that dresses like an outdated and inaccurate caricature of “woman”.

Yesterday he was listed in women's biographies, although that was in a YouTube posted by an American. I can't see him there today, although 'Spare' by Princess Harry is? Amazon really need to spend some money on their cataloguing.

"Mindless pap"

Even the pro one looks like an absolute piss take, stunning and brave, and it's the origami of womanhood.

🤣

Crikey, the second half of that article is, well, I don't know how to describe it. Eye opening, sad, disturbing, scary.

And it's done something that I didn't think was possible, and made me feel a bit sorry for Dylan Mulvaney.

Almost entirely deliberately created to harness the zeitgeist, pushing gender ideology, because big brands know that misogyny sells?

The speculation is that as an HSTS, he may have encountered homophobia from his conservative, religious family.

And Mulvaney has gone and changed his entire appearance on the back of it all.

"Zoey ends her analysis on a sobering note: “Once his numbers drop, his agent will drop him. Dylan will end up on terrible reality shows or worse.”

Plus the reworking of the advertising industry which I'm not entirely sure I even grasp.

I also didn't know this:

Nike’s infamous tagline “Just do it!” was inspired by the final words of double-murderer, Gary Gilmore, who killed two people in Utah in 1976 and was sentenced to death the following year. When asked for his last words while facing the five-man firing squad, Gilmore said "Let's do it.” This phrase was the inspiration for Dan Wieden, head of ad-agency Wieden & Kennedy, who in 1988 launched “Just do it!” into advertising history.

Ffs.

And in another twist it would seem that women weren't having any of it anyway. Knowing Mulvaney is not only a misogynistic man, but crap at sport, backfired to damage the brand.

Seems misogyny isn't always the answer.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Paper-Doll-Notes-Late-Bloomer/dp/B0DSQ9BG5F/

The glowingly approving quotes don't quite match the reviews...

Quite literally pissing to mark their territory, like a particularly irritating spaniel.

I've seen this misconception before, albeit about a clitoris. That a penis is a giant clitoris that allows a girl to pee standing up. Since women neither pee from their vagina nor their clitoris you do wonder at these people's grasp on the biology they want to steal!

Thanks for the article @ArabellaScott

This line describing Dylan

a tall, lanky man who has zero athletic acumen, performing jumping jacks barefoot in a backyard almost falling over and then doing a quasi can-can, again almost falling backwards.

Reminded me in the Rolling Stone they wrote about Dylan stumbling during the photo shoot and catching himself with a dancer's grace! Yeah, right! I'd call Dylan female before I'd ever call him graceful and I would never call him female.

Here's the article on Mulvaney's creation, the agency taht has promoted him, etc:

https://savageminds.substack.com/p/rainbow-washing-women-out-of-existence

All this bollocks is how we’ve ended up with Trump.

Yup, his family are loaded.

His parents are also politically and religiously conservative, so that type of childhood environment is an influence on his current behaviour. We know from research that HSTS men from conservative families often transition because their family do not accept their homosexuality.

As far as i remember his family are very wealthy.

I completely agree. He's embraced the grift and is going to milk it as much as he can. I don't have any time for his 'I'm a woman' nonsense and he does come accross as creepy, but I can understand his need to make money, especially in a country with no free healthcare/welfare. I think unless your rich, in a well paid job etc US seems to be very dog eat dog. Not that I feel sorry for him.

Like you say it's the rich, influential enablers who are more worthy of derision because they don't have to support nonsense for money.

Maybe even with celebrities the grift is difficult to give up though, even after you've made it ? With celebrities the need to stay relevant and therefore in the press probably plays a part too.

I just Googled JM. He looks like the sort of man I'd have steered my children well away from when they were younger.

I've just read that article

https://archive.ph/Q10Eu

https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/celebrity/article/dylan-mulvaney-transgender-influencer-america-x3zt6ktpl

It was mostly so vacuous I was forgetting it even as I was reading it. Couple of things I can recall, I think the hatred he received after the bud light stuff was awful. Go after the company by all means but Dylan was just doing his shtick, he'd done worse but the conservatives didn't care because it was only women he was appropriating, mocking and patronising. The picture with Cynthia Erivo (an amazing singer), because of her unfortunate expression and the way it's been cropped it honestly looks like he's holding her severed head.

This pic is photoshopped to be unrecognisable.

https://x.com/serena_partrick/status/1901199464351564039?s=46

Edit. Sorry. I thought I pasted the image but it didn’t work. But it is on the tweet.

Grade A toxic misogyny.
He is simply a narcissistic, dead eyed, attention seeker with some body modifications.

Where was it that did that analysis of his sudden rise to fame? There was a surprisingly well orchestrated campaign, iirc. Super hot agent, market analysis, etc. Can't recall where it was I read it, though.

The exerpt makes me feel quite sorry for him. The backlash must have been scary.

At root, I think he's just a rather dim chap who's been overpromoted. The homophobia blew up in his face, and the offensive misogyny of his act meant that women had little sympathy for him.

'I feel close to God when the blessings rain down, but when the going gets tough, crickets. Why would God have let me take that beer contract if it was going to ruin me?'

I find him marginally less creepy than his pal, Jeffrey Marsh, who has the fixed, dead behind the eyes look of a snake.

Ha. I was thinking it was giving ‘centaur’

He, as an individual, doesn't bother me at all. I think he's part of the vaudeville tradition of panto dames like Dick Emery, Danny La Rue, etc. Just fancy, more respectable, drag queens. But I think he can't believe his luck in the way he's treated and feted and he's cashing in on it as fast and furious as he's able because it's all just dress up. He tried for years to be famous and jumped on trans when it turned up.

But I despise those who fete him and treat him seriously. Whoopi Goldberg pretending to have a serious conversation about women's sport with him, while he tried to joke his way out of it and not actually comment. Drew Barrymore on her knees and Biden being stupid enough to endorse him. I save my contempt for those idiotic people using him to virtue signal and destroy women's rights in the process.