Nike choose Dylan Mulvaney to promote womens sportswear range.

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Do you know what Nike? Forget about “just do it”, as far as I am concerned you can just do one.

One big change I've seen in the past decade or so is that women who act are now called actors, not actresses.

Not Dylan. Looking at Dylan's wikipedia page, "is an American actress...." It really sums it all up for me. Women have been fighting for decades to be taken seriously and not be stereotyped by our sex. Dylan? All about the stereotypes.

But but but, men are what they say they are.

Do we still have acceptance without exception?

You can’t say a person with a penis is a man or a he if they want to be called them a woman.

Woman = person who wants to be called a woman now. Words used to mean things. No more!

Not sure why I put that extra “them” in there but sometimes you gotta call a person that, too.

Why can't I?

Serious question but who decided that man/ woman is a feeling and not something objective

I'd like to define women as as sex class

Why is my definition wrong?

Not sure who decided this, but that’s why our posts got deleted.

I agree with your definition.

Because Judith Butler says so. Get with the programme.

Programme should get with me!

Seems to me that is actually happening. The koolaid gang have massively overplayed their hand and now look like tin foil hat nutters (which they always were anyway)

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I would ask ‘when will it stop’ but it will be a long time yet.

The thing is, every opportunity Mulvaney takes from a female model / athlete / influencer / activist, the push back grows. And among the age group that people love to tell us is more ‘accepting’ while reminding us we are going to die out soon.

Not while the money and notoriety keeps building. My bestie sent me this link yesterday, which seems to explain it nypost.com/2023/04/07/inside-the-woke-scoring-system-guiding-american-companies/amp/?fbclid=IwAR062xZtZ4LbwAyZkhd1P3Py6gSuWLh2yAOwHos5EQhGfQiMP35Pxtjm4gw

He.

I see the latest AIBU thread has gone.

Ther are, of course, a lot of people, especially younger people who have become caught up in it all. Who have believed they can change sex and who have been enabled, and even encouraged, by responsible adults, parents and society at large. Many have taken hormones which will have lasting and irreversible impacts and others have had surgery to remove or modify healthy body parts. The ideology has been embedded in a generation or even two.

For that reason it is going to take as long again to unpick.

It is fascinating that what used to be companies in the past keeping a majority of customers happy eg L'Oréal offering 101 hair colours, and letting down a minority eg no products for black women's hair...have now mutated to keeping a minority of customers happy eg Nike sucking up to trans with DM campaign, and letting down the majority eg snubbing their noses at female and GC male customers.

👏 agree

Apologies, haven't read the full thread.

The only people I can see who will benefit from this endorsement are DM himself (£££ and exposure) and all the pervs out there who like to see women's clothing on little girl's bodies (as DM has the body shape and behaviours of an 8 yr old girl).

Quite sickening really.

This is scary and makes more sense now.

US feels like it’s under attack on multiple levels.

He has a clearly visible penis and has the body of a scrawny man. I certainly didn't behave like him when I was 8 either and haven't seen much evidence that other 8 year old girls behave like him.

That makes so much sense - it's the international equivalent of the Stonewall index.

I just had two friends “like” the post of a drag Queen doing story time. They know the person.

It’s really bizarre. Neither have children, but how can anyone not see what’s going on here?

I suppose a problem with boycotting Nike is that it’s a big employer of women and girls, many of them kids, mainly in the developing world.

It seems fine to make a statement (and I agree that the ad is crass - I didn’t believe it was real at first). I do think the repercussions of a campaign that actually harmed the Nike business would be complex.