So Anheuser-Busch continues to spiral downward, a response from supposedly ultra-MAGA knuckle draggers who think all women should be forever barefoot and pregnant.
My question is, “Where are all the feminists in this?” Where are those stanch defenders of all things related to actual womanhood? The feminists who fought for women to be the equal of any man?
The female leaders who insisted on self-determination for women, not allowing themselves to be seen as useless, frivolous creatures with hardly a thought in their pretty little heads, past the latest lipstick shade and how to catch a husband to support them?
Those who fought for women to be taken seriously, to be seen as whole persons, as capable as men in every respect?
Hmmmmm. “… to be taken seriously…”
I want to hear from those women on the subject of a person like Dylan Mulvaney being representative of women.
Ah excuse me. Because Mulvaney is 26 years old, one would assume he’d want to be celebrating ‘womanhood’, but that would be incorrect. He’s celebrating his ‘girlhood’.
As a woman, who was an actual girl in the heyday of the early feminist movement, I can remember the idea of a grown-ass woman accepting being called a ‘girl’ was beyond the pale.
It was a belittling, dismissive way to refer to a woman, designed to keep them in their place. Their place that was several levels below that of males, who only lived to dominate them.
I maintain that accepting this frivolous person as a woman is insulting and a huge step backward for feminists.
Even if by some stretch of the imagination, along with a complete suspension of science and biology, one were able accept Mulvaney as he wishes to be seen – a ‘girl’; where does he fit into how we women are supposed to see ourselves, according to the basic tenets of feminist ideals?
If you’re the mother of a teenage girl, for whom you have hopes and dreams of a meaningful life as a woman, is Dylan Mulvaney someone you want your daughter to see as an example?
Are we back to the 1950s ideals of womanhood (he’s 26 years old for fuck’s sake – I refuse to refer to his imagined ‘girlhood’ any longer) – frivolous, obsessed with maintaining a facade designed to please men, thinking only of material things?
Is this the example any of us should be holding out in front of our daughters? Should we measure ourselves against him? Should we silently stand by, while he trivializes what it means to be a woman?
Watching him should sicken any woman who lives an intentional, meaningful life.
And, I maintain that women should not in any way allow ourselves to be socially intimidated into accepting him as one of us.
Dylan Mulvaney is a man.
