Remember the society in which Tampax wanted their products promoted by individual who doesn't have periods? Where elite athletic orgs encouraged biological men to smoke their female competition? Where you were called crazy for thinking it was all crazy? Same. But nothing to see here, folks, just good ol' gaslighting and female mockery at its finest! It's not The Twilight Zone. It's another Monday in the American news cycle.
In today's episode, I dive into the continued chaos around trans TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney and an issue much bigger than an unused tampon: the line of celebrating trans women and stepping on all other women -- and where the line is not only blurred but ignored harder than your taxes. I ask: Is this really your trans female hero? ('cus it ain't mine), while reflecting on my Riley Gaines interview experience, trans women we should be looking up to, and feminist of our time Emily Ratajkowski's part in Marc Jacobs' new "genderless" campaign.
My common sense can't help but wonder: Isn't genderless and individuality an oxymoron? Why can we do this identity abandoning and fluctuating with gender but not race? And why are these conversations ALWAYS.around.women for crying out loud?

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