Hello, dolls!
Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney has wriggled back into the spotlight to celebrate a second year cosplaying a biological female.
The great brand-destroyer teased 10-million-plus TikTok followers this week with a ‘surprise.’
But did anyone anticipate the assault on eyes and ears that was about to be unleashed?
Titled ‘Days of Girlhood,’ it was a music video no one asked for, named after the viral TikTok chronicle of Mulvaney’s male-to-female gender transition.
That social media series hit all of the classic sexist tropes: women are addicted to clothes, cry when they see bugs, regularly frolic in meadows and can’t control their emotions.
The video is more of the same misogyny.
It opens with a pop beat in the background as Mulvaney, heels in hand, exits a pink convertible. Stumbling to the front door of a peach-colored mansion, Mulvaney drops the keys.
After a quick makeup check, a slug of champagne, a lounge on a frilly red comforter, and a glance at a pill-packed medicine cabinet, it’s off to the pool.
The lyrics to the song are somehow worse than the candy-coated aesthetics.
‘Monday, can’t get out of bed … Tuesday morning, pick up meds … Wednesday, retail therapy … ‘Cash or credit?’ I say, ‘Yes’ … Thursday, had a walk of shame … Didn’t even know his namе… Friday night, I’ll overspend… Saturday, we flirt for drinks.’
Hello, dolls! Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney has wriggled back into the spotlight to celebrate a second year cosplaying a biological female.
The great brand-destroyer teased 10-million-plus TikTok followers this week with a ‘surprise.’ But did anyone anticipate the assault on eyes and ears that was about to be unleashed?
Perpetually depressed, overmedicated, promiscuous, and using booze and a shopping addiction to cope with it all.
Is this what Mulvaney thinks represents being female?
Poolside, Mulvaney and friends perform stilted, synchronized routines in WWII-era bathing suits.
The sets and costumes are awash in Barbie and millennial pink, big hair, and heavy, glittery makeup.
It’s unimaginative slop and could be the premise of an old Saturday Night Live skit.
But this video is 100 percent for real, and coming from a biological male, it’s offensive.
Mulvaney sings about ‘learn[ing] the basics’ of being a girl.
Newsflash: biological women don’t need a crash course on ‘how to girl’. We were born this way.
Sure, we learn from our mothers and female mentors how to deal with puberty, periods and pregnancy. But these are biological realities that Mulvaney will never experience.
Things turn creepy when you notice that Mulvaney is taking on a childish caricature.
The bare midriff, the pigtails, the affected voice. All the while, Mulvaney mouths the auto-tuned refrain, ‘There are the days of girlhood.’
Things turn creepy when you notice that Mulvaney is taking on a childish caricature. The bare midriff, the pigtails, the affected voice. All the while, Mulvaney mouths the auto-tuned refrain, ‘There are the days of girlhood.’
‘Calling women of all ages,’ Mulvaney blasts the rallying cry.
This comes from a person who’s been honored by President Joe Biden as a role model for LGBTQ youth.
Does the White House endorse the suggestion that girls drink alcohol, take copious amounts of pills and have sex with anonymous partners? Someone should ask if they plan to have Mulvaney back to the Oval Office.
Young women are facing a mental health crisis. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention reports that teen girls feel sadder, lonelier, and more hopeless than ever.
Mulvaney’s millions of followers – many of whom are no doubt children and teens – would surely benefit from a more positive example. But instead Mulvaney appears to revel in this national emergency singing, ‘Sunday, the Twilight soundtrack cues my breakdown in the bath,’ while sinking lower in the water.
It’s not helpful to tell girls that perpetual victimhood is something aspirational, nor is it healthy to suggest substance abuse or reckless sexual behavior is a legitimate coping mechanism.
But Mulvaney doesn’t care if this music video sells a harmful lie to impressionable young fans.
After all, Mulvaney’s making bank on this new gig. There are partnerships with Ulta, Nike, Crest, Kate Spade, and other major brands.
If there were a patriarchy, it would almost certainly involve biological men invading women’s spaces and taking professional opportunities away from them.
Mulvaney’s making bank on this new gig. There are partnerships with Ulta, Nike, Crest, Kate Spade, and other major brands.
How ironic 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 ensued after the brand decided to pursue an ad deal with Mulvaney.
Author, Amber Duke
Mulvaney managed to single-handedly tank the Anheuser-Busch stock in combination with the beer company’s boneheaded marketing department, which deemed its loyal consumer base ‘too fratty’.
In the music video, Mulvaney shoots a lineup of pink-washed beer cans with a water gun. The obvious message – Mulvaney was the wronged party in that saga, not the millions of customers who felt betrayed by a company that once championed traditional American values and now looked down on them.
But insulting adults is one thing. This music video is entirely another.
Mulvaney is explicitly sending a message to children – and it’s a dangerous one.
Unfortunately, Americans can’t rely on the mainstream media, Hollywood and the political left to recognize Mulvaney’s obscenity, so people of good faith should vote with their dollar.
If there was ever a time to boycott a brand associated with Dylan Mulvaney – it is now.