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

[RethinkingLife]

Read it because the whole is well-written and quotable.

This is all from Mulvaney’s new book, Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer. It is – and I choose my words advisedly – batshit insane. It traces his ‘gender journey’ from being a gay boy to being nonbinary before he eventually arrives at ‘girlhood’. And then the holy land: womanhood. He’s definitely a woman now because he is ‘blonde and my tits [don’t] need a magnifying glass to be seen’. Plus, he loves pink. At one point he pulls on ‘the pinkest… outfit I own’, thinking that ‘the more feminine’ he appeared, the less likely it is he’ll be ‘misgendered’. Blonde hair, big boobs and a pink dress? Woman!
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Some people will bristle at my use of male pronouns for Mulvaney, but if you think I’m saying ‘she’ and ‘her’ about someone who’s so obsessed with his own schlong that he has a name for it – ‘Missy’ – then you must be off your rocker. ‘I am a woman with a penis’, he writes. Can we take a second to marvel at the sheer delirium of a statement like that? A hundred years ago if you said ‘I’m a woman with a penis’, you’d have been quietly shuffled off to Bedlam. Now you get an advance from Hachette and a birthday card from the vice-president of the United States.

www.spiked-online.com/2025/03/13/dylan-mulvaneys-creepy-fantasies-of-girlhood/

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The best thing anyone can do is not buy his book. Send a clear message to all the grifters and shysters making money out of this insanity. I had been hoping that Mulvaney was taking the piss, but if he's really had 'facial feminisation surgery' and his Adam's apple shaved, that seems very unlikely.

And Dylan - kindly note that we women do NOT pee out of our vagina.

I’m amazing an obvious woman such as himself still has a penis. Surely that’s the first thing that would go. The whole thing is bizarre beyond words - but now as a woman who despite having three kids and periods and stuff - I own no pink so maybe I’m not a real woman.

I’ve seen nothing about this book so maybe/hopefully the pink diva is no longer relevant and can reinvent themselves yet again.

I’m amazed not I’m amazing!!

He was on t he voice grifting about trans people in sports,
He's got to keep the grift going somehow.

Excellent article, thanks for sharing. And yes, the sexism just screams out from this movement.

Sexism or not, Dylan Mulvaney always comes across as very, very creepy IMO. I'm not sure what it is about him, his rictus smile, his look at me persona, his beady, needy 100 yard stare. Obviously the fact he is clearly pretending to be something everyone knows he isn't doesn't help.

He's like a walking, talking living red flag 😂

Who pees from their vagina?!

Brilliant article. This bit especially:

I’m sorry, but the idea that you can carve a ‘woman’ out of a man is fundamentally misogynistic. Women are not men with softer jaws, or castrated men, or men who experience ‘yummy womanly moments’, as Mulvaney writes, whatever the fuck that means. They’re women.

and bonkers Dylan think that women pee out of their vagina??? He needs a biology lesson. Dude. 🙄🙄

I remain in awe of writers and their ability to capture such absurdities with humour and economy.

I think I peak peaked when Mulvaney came along. At the time I was convinced he was a double agent. Pushing such extreme gender stereotypes and being paraded by the Biden administration I thought was an act of subversion. But no, it was just the logical conclusion of end stage capitalism meets end stage gender ideology.

He's a twink and a grifter who's made a career taking the piss out of women

In one sense I almost admire the hustle because he's so obviously a controversy-merchant who'll say all kinds of misogynistic things to stay going viral and make loads of money

It's all so obviously an incredibly knowing, meta prank that I don't get too angry about him, I save that anger for the likes of Fox Killer, Emma Watson, Owen Jones, Adrian Harrop etc who spend years pushing for children to be harmed and hurt

But yeah like others have said, just don't buy his book. He makes bank off your outrage, don't bother

Thanks for the link. I'm glad I read it because now I know about Mulvaney's mum, who sounds sounds awesome. I hope she's a Mumsnetter.

But, but, but — the photo on the Spiked story proves he’s a woman. He has long shiny fingernails.

All right, he doesn’t pee from his vagina, like the rest of us. But how can you catty people deny the fingernail evidence?

Tempted to buy a copy to send to each of my children who currently have cut me off for being a bigot. At least Dylan is still speaking to his mum.

His poor Mum.

Well, ‘I’d hate for my penis peeing to be the thing that blows my cover’, he writes.

So he knows he's faking it. He knows, and yet he still blames others for not believing the lies despite not believing them fully himself. Surely there is no cover to be blown if he's a woman.

Yeah, having a dick does tend to "blow your cover" that you're not actually a woman. FFS. Ridiculous man.

All right, he doesn’t pee from his vagina, like the rest of us.

I don't!

Hello Dylan - welcome to the non vaginal peeing sisterhood. Just like a real woman!

<Whispers> Nor do I. Maybe we’re not womaning right? Don’t tell anyone!

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"After much observation in the ladies’ loo"
So he admits he's been hanging around women's toilets listening to women pee
Not creepy at all...

It's a great article written with humour.

But on a serious note, the author 100% nails it here:

the final frontier of social liberation: the right of men to relieve themselves in the women’s bathroom

This is where we are at.

This is a sensational paragraph, thank you Brendan:

"‘He makes fun of his mum’s Christian church, which he describes as ‘one of those rock-band-type modern churches’ with a pastor in cowboy boots’. And yet elsewhere he writes about being visited by ‘the Angel of Transness… tapping on my shoulder, telling me that I’m a woman’. And about his friend who says ‘I got my balls chopped off’ in a surgical ‘Cassie’ (castration). Imagine mocking evangelical Christians when you’ve thrown your lot in with a bollock-chopping cult in which angels whisper ‘You’re a lady’ in the ears of deluded men. Give me a cowboy priest over that bullshit any day of the week"

Here is an extract from the book https://www.thecut.com/article/dylan-mulvaney-book-excerpt-bomb-threat-beer-ad.html