Inanely grinning
Jean Hatchet points out that Dylan Mulvaney is mocking us and we don’t like it.
Shortly before this year-long, very public “transition”, Mulvaney performed a pilot video for his current lucrative act. In it he told the viewer that he “had trouble finding roles” so a friend had invented one for him, a “femme character”. His character wears a pink dress and pearls, white gloves and ankle socks. At this point Mulvaney must have been delighted to glimpse a potential new career path. It was a very savvy move for him to extend and develop this caricature of a 1950s woman. Now, just over a year later, Dylan Mulvaney has highly paid “partnerships” with a number of companies including Budweiser, Kate Spade and — during the past week, to great objection — the Sportwear giant Nike.
For what? For an extended smirky insulting parody of women.
Imaging a white man reviving the old minstrel show parody. Imagine how much the left would applaud and reward and defend that.
Darling, right? Hilarious? Innocent playful fun?
Of course not.
So why is it ok when he does it?
In an inflammatory paid partnership video with Nike, an inanely grinning, barefoot Mulvaney wears a Nike sports bra and leggings. He performs a series of ridiculous moves including comedic side stretches, a theatrical run kicking his heels up nonsensically and failed chorus-line high kicks. He almost runs backwards into a hedge at one point and pulls a comedy expression of shock. It all looks ridiculous and slapstick. It mocks women by suggesting they exercise trivially and ineffectively, but smiling throughout.
Why is it ok to mock women when it’s not ok to mock black people or indigenous people or southern hemisphere people?
Along with these grotesque parodies of womanhood, he promotes products with zero shame, grifting whilst gurning and gaslighting women. Shortly before he began this career-saving venture of “being a girl”, Mulvaney can be found mocking a female cheerleader in a sketch where he pretends to break his leg. He has honed and perfected these earlier attempts to portray women as weak and stupid, and he deflected attention from them by declaring himself a woman. Gender identity is once again the smokescreen for misogyny, and negative criticism leads to an award-worthy performance of his being hurt and bullied. Mulvaney simply reverses the victim and offender. Women are bullies, he is the target. Many women recognise this pattern from relationships with abusive men.
Mulvaney is an abusive man.
I really don’t know any women that act that stupid. He is a no talent little dick who is making money off other stupid little inane dicks who are caught up in his fantasy world. No one ever went broke underestimating the stupidity of the “Transfreak” public.
Tying LGBTQ together means that criticism of his grift is an attack on the whole “community. “
Nike has sponsored some notorious shitbags, from Lance Armstrong to Michael Vick. Usually the sponsorship preceeds the discovery of shitbaggery, but apparently not with Mulvaney. They might as well sponsor Andrew Tate too. Infamous is the new famous.
He is. People are all upset over the NY Post calling him a “noted female impersonator”, which is a perfectly neutral and reasonable way to describe him, albeit one that doesn’t agree with his assertion that he is a woman, but even that one disagreement is enough to brand someone as a bigot.
“I am a better Negro than you are, because you don’t even try at it.”
-Jakie Rabinowitz
There are too many women.
Wait, wait, hear me out! The memes that drive this network of ideologies are hopelessly provincial. The demographics that shape it are the demographics of the West, primarily North America. (And especially North American universities.) Now just think about the implicit assumption in much of Critical Social Justice that majority (or, because they believe everything is socially constructed, “majoritized”) groups have oppressive power. Females aren’t a small group. When viewed through the same lens that gave us intersectionality, that means that females qua females end up being deemed an “oppressor identity”. This is where the it becomes relevant that these ideas flow from universities: women are outnumbering and outperforming men in higher education. From the perspective of a woke academic or student, women are absolutely a majority group. And by the rules of Social Justice, mocking majority groups is “punching up”.
Welcome to Clown World, where men can be women because women are oppressors!