{"id":1711355,"date":"2022-10-26T08:48:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T12:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1711355"},"modified":"2022-10-26T08:48:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T12:48:34","slug":"being-a-woman-requires-more-than-makeup-dresses-and-tiktok-theatrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/being-a-woman-requires-more-than-makeup-dresses-and-tiktok-theatrics\/","title":{"rendered":"Being A Woman Requires More Than Makeup, Dresses, And TikTok Theatrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbeing-a-woman-requires-more-than-makeup-dresses-and-tiktok-theatrics%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1711355&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>When President Biden decided to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/transgender-tiktok-influencer-dylan-mulvaney-interviews-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sit down for an interview<\/a> with Dylan Mulvaney, the left\u2019s most recent transgender \u201cit girl,\u201d it was reminiscent of President Obama\u2019s many fluff interviews with social media icons. This interview was different, however, because it could have an actual influence on national policy. As Biden nodded along and praised Mulvaney for his \u201c222nd day as a girl,\u201d it occurred to me how absurd the entire scene was. The whole ordeal presents serious problems about the legitimacy of our political system, but also how women find themselves represented in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Mulvaney, most known for his TikTok \u201cDays of Girlhood\u201d series, represents one of the best examples of the absurdity of the modern transgender movement. As Amber Athey boldly pointed out in an article titled, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/spectatorworld.com\/life\/dylan-mulvaney-ulta-beauty-joe-biden-white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">My womanhood is not your costume<\/a>,\u201d \u201cWomanhood is now routinely publicly mocked and degraded by a group of men playing dress-up\u2026\u201d But \u201c[t]he most offensive part of Mulvaney\u2019s act is not that it debases women to the lowest stereotypes. It\u2019s that women are being told to look truth dead in the eyes and then spit in its face.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mulvaney began \u201ctransitioning\u201d less than a year ago and decided to document his daily experience through what is indistinguishable from right-wing satire. Taking on the common attitude that he is doing society a kindness by taking time to properly educate the ignorant masses, Mulvaney\u2019s style is condescending, aggressive, and entitled. Yet to the casual observer, he appears frantic, hostile, and frankly, creepy, often with an exaggerated smile and manic eyes that tell a story of desperation, not confidence.<\/p>\n<p>As Athey details, Mulvaney\u2019s idea of \u201cgirlhood\u201d seems limited to a Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen movie from the early 2000s. He dresses and behaves like a stereotype of a young teenage girl, with literal bows in his hair, and appears to have made a mental checklist of all the things girls like and don\u2019t like, which he ticks off in his videos. Girls don\u2019t like bugs, check. Girls wear \u201cshopping shorts,\u201d check.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Along with his persona of an overly excitable teenager, Mulvaney, who is 25, exhibits moments of activist hostility. On <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/slxthkween\/status\/1582065732644282372\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">day 74<\/a> of his series, he bounces onto the screen wearing tight black leather or latex shorts, which he refers to as his \u201cshopping shorts,\u201d with an overt confirmation of his biological sex on full display. He begins his story by noting that when out on a recent shopping trip, he noticed people kept staring at his crotch. He exclaims, \u201cI forgot that my crotch doesn\u2019t look like other women\u2019s crotches sometimes because mine doesn\u2019t look like a little Barbie pocket.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For a moment, he appears to slip into adult lucidity and recognize that he could simply wear clothing that doesn\u2019t draw such attention but snaps right back into his wide-eyed, exaggerated persona, demanding that perhaps everyone else should merely \u201cnormalize\u201d the idea that women sometimes have bulges. To emphasize this, he begins to sing, \u201cWomen can have bulges, and that\u2019s OK,\u201d before getting to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transgender influencers pretending to be women are merely appropriating female stereotypes to fit their needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":1711358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1711355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1711355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1711358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1711355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1711355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1711355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}