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/

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.

"Mindless pap"

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

🤣

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.

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”.

Fully agree with this.

He's a performative bellend.

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.

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.

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.