Hello, dolls!
Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney has returned to the spotlight to celebrate his second year of cosplaying a biological woman.
The major brand destroyer teased more than 10 million TikTok followers with a “surprise” this week.
But had anyone anticipated the attack on the eyes and ears that was about to be unleashed?
Titled “Days of Girlhood,” it was a music video that no one asked for, named after the viral TikTok chronicle of Mulvaney’s gender transition from male to female.
That social media series hit all the classic sexist tropes: women are addicted to clothes, cry when they see insects, regularly frolic in meadows, and have no control over their emotions.
The video is more of the same misogyny.
It starts with a pop beat in the background as Mulvaney, heels in hand, exits a pink convertible. Mulvaney stumbles to the front door of a peach-colored mansion and drops the keys.
After a quick makeup check, a sip of champagne, a lounge on a red ruffled duvet and a look at a medicine cabinet full of pills, it’s off to the pool.
The song’s lyrics are somehow worse than its candy-coated aesthetic.
‘Monday, can’t get out of bed… Tuesday morning, picking up medications… Wednesday, retail therapy… ‘Cash or credit?’ I say, ‘Yes’… Thursday, I was embarrassed… I didn’t even know his name… Friday night I spend too much… Saturday we flirt over drinks.’
Hello, dolls! Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney has returned to the spotlight to celebrate his second year of cosplaying a biological woman.
The major brand destroyer teased more than 10 million TikTok followers with a “surprise” this week. But had anyone anticipated the attack on the eyes and ears that was about to be unleashed?
Perpetually depressed, over-medicated, promiscuous, and using booze and a shopping addiction to cope with it all.
Is this what Mulvaney thinks womanhood represents?
Poolside, Mulvaney and his friends perform stilted, synchronized routines in World War II bathing suits.
The sets and costumes are awash in Barbie and millennial pink, big hair and heavy glitter makeup.
It’s unimaginative slop and could be the premise of an old Saturday Night Live skit.
But this video is 100 percent real, and because it comes from a biological male, it is offensive.
Mulvaney sings about “learning the basics” of being a girl.
News flash: biological women don’t need a crash course in how to be a girl. We were born that way.
Of course, we learn from our mothers and female mentors how to deal with puberty, menstruation and pregnancy. But these are biological realities that Mulvaney will never experience.
It gets creepy when you notice Mulvaney adopting a childish caricature.
The bare midriff, the pigtails, the affected voice. Meanwhile, Mulvaney says the auto-tuned chorus: “There are the days of girlhood.”
It gets creepy when you notice Mulvaney adopting a childish caricature. The bare midriff, the pigtails, the affected voice. Meanwhile, Mulvaney says the auto-tuned chorus: “There are the days of girlhood.”
‘Women calling from all ages,” is Mulvaney’s battle cry.
This coming from an individual who has been honored by President Joe Biden as a role model for LGBTQ youth.
Does the White House support the suggestion that girls drink alcohol, take copious amounts of pills and have sex with anonymous partners? Someone should ask if they plan on returning Mulvaney to the Oval Office.
Young women are facing a mental health crisis. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention reports that teenage girls are feeling sadder, lonelier and more hopeless than ever.
Mulvaney’s millions of followers – many of whom are undoubtedly children and teenagers – would certainly benefit from a more positive example. But instead, Mulvaney seems to enjoy this national chant: “Sunday, the Twilight soundtrack cues my injection in the bath,” as he sinks deeper into the water.
It’s not helpful to tell girls that continued victimization is aspirational, nor is it healthy to suggest that substance abuse or reckless sexual behavior is a legitimate coping mechanism.
But Mulvaney doesn’t care if this music video sells a damaging lie to impressionable young fans.
After all, Mulvaney is making money with this new gig. There are partnerships with Ulta, Nike, Crest, Kate Spade and other major brands.
If patriarchy existed, it would almost certainly mean biological males invading women’s space and depriving them of professional opportunities.
Mulvaney is making money with this new gig. There are partnerships with Ulta, Nike, Crest, Kate Spade and other major brands.
How ironic is it that Mulvaney sings, “Boys on the dance floor, it’s finally clear… The patriarchy is over, you can hold our beer!”
That last line is, of course, a reference to the Bud Light boycott that followed after the brand decided to pursue an advertising deal with Mulvaney.
Author, Amber Duke
Mulvaney managed to tank Anheuser-Busch’s stock single-handedly, along with the beer company’s obtuse marketing department, which deemed its loyal consumer base “too fragile.”
In the music video, Mulvaney shoots a series of pink-washed beer cans with a water gun. The obvious message: Mulvaney was the wronged party in that story, not the millions of customers who felt betrayed by a company that once championed and now looked down on traditional American values.
But insulting adults is one thing. This music video is completely different.
Mulvaney is explicitly sending a message to children – and it’s a dangerous message.
Unfortunately, Americans cannot trust the mainstream media, Hollywood, and the political left to recognize Mulvaney’s obscenity, so people of good faith must vote with their dollars.
If there was ever a time to boycott a brand associated with Dylan Mulvaney, it’s now.