Yes, of course - they had to get a man to speak:
Forbes is under fire from women’s rights advocates and online commentators after having a male who recently began identifying as a “girl” speak at their Power Women’s Summit, an annual event highlighting female leaders in business and activism.
Dylan Mulvaney, a transgender TikToker who has risen to notoriety for his “days of girlhood” series, spoke on “ushering in a new era of influence” at the Summit, which was held in New York City on September 15.
The announcement of Mulvaney’s appearance was posted to the official Forbes twitter the following day and attracted overwhelmingly negative attention from feminists and gender critical activists who pointed out that Mulvaney has identified as a “woman” for less than a year.
“So this is actually a feminine man, not a woman. Being a woman isn’t about performing sexist stereotypes, it is an innate biological reality,” Twitter user Frederich wrote in response to the Forbes announcement....
Even transgender people critical of Mulvaney’s participation added their voice to the chorus of discontent.
“What does Dylan know about being a woman? To Dylan, being a woman is being told how stunning and brave you are every day for chronicling your adult male “girlhood.” He’s been LARPing as a woman for a day and a half. This is an insult to women and embarrassing for dysphoric men,” Transgender Twitter user SophieXY wrote.
Mulvaney’s appearance at the Summit comes just months after the TikToker reported being offered a partnership with Tampax to advertise menstruation products. The partnership allegedly came after Mulvaney’s video on his “12th day of girlhood” in which he discussed carrying tampons around to hand out in women’s bathrooms, and refers to the vagina as a “barbie pouch.”
Mulvaney’s TikToks documenting his “days of girlhood” have accumulated millions of views. In the videos, Mulvaney is often seen doing and acting in excessively “feminine” ways which are often perceived as representing harmful, sexist stereotypes. While “being a girl,” Mulvaney often attributes his womanhood to what he is wearing, his makeup, eating habits, and dramatic emotions which lead to crying and binge shopping.
There you go - that's a "power woman" for you.
During his “day 74” video, Mulvaney advocates for the normalization of his “bulge” after complaining that people at a supermarket were disturbed by the outfit he had been wearing, which had included leather shorts that clearly showed the outline of his genitals.
“I forgot that my crotch doesn’t look like other women’s crotches because mine doesn’t look like a little barbie pocket,” Mulvaney says, “… I just normalize it, and we all just normalize women having bulges sometimes, because we’re coming up on bikini season, baby, and you might see a bulge or two.”
The "normalisation of the bulge". Says it all right there.
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