“Gender is performance,” wrote Berkeley professor Judith Butler as she helped create the gender craziness we have today. In other words, no one is born male or female, they just perform their “gender role.”
If so, then here’s a performance for you, from Dylan Mulvaney, the former Bud Light spokesman who says we should consider him a spokeswoman. Brace yourself: The cringe factor comes in at near-fatal levels. There’s actually a lesson in here, though, believe it or not.
So, following a ridiculous video no one can take seriously, we’ll look at the message it carries: that transgenderism itself is ridiculous, not worth taking seriously. We cringe, but it’s the trans activists who ought to be feeling the most pain from this.
Let’s start where they do: This is a man performing, not a woman, and the activists want you to know it. That opening shot — the classic, alluring scene of the woman’s legs as she steps out of the car — is completely undone by the size of his feet. They are undeniably, unmistakably the feet of a man. The activists didn’t have to announce that so potently, but they did. They’re telling us this is a man performing as a woman. Over-performing, actually. As in over-the-top, cliched, no-real-woman-could-ever-be-like-that over-performing.
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