Days of Womanface
Trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney continues his mockery of women
Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney has released a music single titled “Days of Girlhood.” The song is meant to be a response to the backlash Dylan has received ever since he debuted his TikTok series “365 Days of Being a Girl,” in which he donned a wig and female clothing and “celebrated” his new discoveries of girlhood like being afraid of bugs, twirling, and frilly dresses.
I’m sure I don’t need to remind you of the Bud Light fiasco.
I found Mulvaney’s girlhood cosplay grossly offensive from the beginning. I’m GenX. I grew up in the tailwinds of the Baby Boomer feminist movement. We were told repeatedly that stereotyping women as shopping obsessed, pink-loving, gossiping Barbie dolls was dangerous and offensive. Even Barbie herself got a makeover, expanding her fashion queen persona into the career realm. Mulvaney was wearing a costume that has been bathed in misogyny and he was being celebrated for it. I found it to be vile, at best.
The social media influencer’s first pop single doubles down on the womanface. Mulvaney can be seen flitting around in lingerie and pink frilly gowns, sipping champagne with “the gals” on a pink bed, trying on clothes and gyrating like Beyonce, except without the hips or shape that make such motions so sensual.
“This single came from my desire to reclaim my relationship to femininity and celebrate trans joy. I had never written a song before, but I knew I wanted it to feel like the opening of an early 2000s romantic comedy.”
Mulvaney’s dress-up experiment feels like anything but a romantic comedy. It feels like a 1920’s minstrel show designed to ridicule its subject while simultaneously being entertained by it. Podcaster Allie Beth Stuckey pointed out that no female music artist would be allowed to break through in the industry if she looked like Mulvaney - no hips, no breasts, no physical femininity beyond face paint and costume.
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Sex sells, even in 2024, and entertainment culture is meant to be aspirational. A pop star is sold as a product industry players hope will create desire - a desire to be with this person or a desire to be like this person.
Watching Mulvaney’s awkward stab at the feminine form engenders neither perspective. Men aren’t sexually attracted to it and no woman wants to look like that. It’s just another form of “don’t believe your lying eyes” being shoved down our throats. Just clap and cheer and pay no attention to that nagging feeling that you’re being punked.
Mulvaney is clearly a rejected theater kid who just wants to be noticed. He’s tried on a number of personas over the years and this is the one that has finally worked. But I think - and this is my opinion; I don’t know him nor anyone who knows him personally - that Mulvaney’s motivation is much more sinister. I think he actually despises women, and his ongoing theater performance isn’t meant to court us but to ridicule us. To add insult to injury, some women applaud this insulting production.
There is nothing about Mulvaney that women should want to be. He is an emaciated, cosmetically altered, cheap facsimile of a woman and there isn’t a single thing I would point to about his persona as a recommendation for my own daughter.
Earlier this year the pretend girl put admitted he was feeling a lot of stress and anxiety from the amount of people trying to “shame” his journey. But I don’t believe the shame he feels is because women are pointing out his obvious misogyny. He feels shame because he inherently understands his acts are shameful.
Dylan, if you’re seeing this, just know we’ve all done things we feel shameful about. We’ve all succumbed to weaknesses that amplify that shame. You don’t have to live with shame when you accept that you were created with great care and deliberation, and you don’t need to mutilate your body or ridicule others to feel good and accepted. You were born exactly as you were designed to be. God knit you in your mother’s womb and He makes no mistakes. Your male form is exactly the form you were destined to inhabit, and it is glorious. My prayer for you is that one day you will see yourself the way God sees you, and you will repent.
What I find ironic about Dylan et al is how much they don't like to give up their "male privilege " while pretending to be women.
His ridicule and stereotyping of womanhood has always frustrated and angered me. I love you for being able to give him grace in the end. You’re a far better human than me.