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I think you hit the nail on the head but not in so many words about the bud light controversy.
Bud light is, well, not a beer that any reasonable person would associate with the sort of people who get into woke stuff. The advertising campaign featuring a z-list celebrity weirdo in a dress(and lets be real, that’s what Dylan mulvaney is- even by MTF standards he’s pretty deeply odd and he’s pure culture war fodder because he’s so weird and annoying) wasn’t served to me(beer ads seem to think of me as a right wing Hispanic beer snob) but it did uniquely offend me because, well, who did they think it was going to appeal to? I mean gay pride cans in June are obviously for sale to gay bars but does any bud light drinker have much sympathy for trans? And I’m so enthusiastic about not drinking any Budweiser product(of which there are many, and of which some are drinkable) because this feels like my demographic(blue collar males) exercising cultural power. This is the one time we get to hit back, and it feels good. Honestly that last bit probably makes all the difference in the world.
Anyways I’ll be drinking shiner after yard work.
Damn it, after all my intentions to stay gone, this is what drags me back in?
Dylan Mulvaney is not MTF, and I'll tell you why: no tits. Look at any picture of him, and he's flat as a board. Real MTF transgender women can't wait to grow a pair of Real Girl Boobs (hence the jokes about "titty skittles"). (I'm also suspicious about the hair; in several photos it looks like a wig. Could be a wig, could be extensions, could be he grew his hair out. Also the crow's feet wrinkles. Those make him look older than 26 and are the kind of thing that could be fixed up by cosmetic surgery if he's really serious about being a girl). Allegedly he's had facial surgery, I don't know. His face is still very masculine and doesn't do him any favours in some pictures.
Mulvaney is a gay guy who did drag and has now managed to wangle a gimmick stunt of "my year as a girl" into being 'trans' and the face of some dumb campaign.
I believe the higher-ups at Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV when they say they had no idea about this. It does seem to be the brainchild of that marketing lady who wanted to lose the "fratty" image. Well congrats on that girl, I hope you have similar success in your next job because I have a feeling this campaign means you get handed your P45 (or whatever the American equivalent is).
Mulvaney isn't trans, he's a femme gay guy who will slip back to whatever acting/comedy/drag act he was doing once the trans craze dies down.
And that's it, this time I really am gone and staying gone.
I enjoyed having you back around! Hopefully you don't stay gone forever. :)
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Honestly he’s always struck me as a gay man in a dress more than a genuine MTF, but he’s clearly attempting to milk the MTF thing so that’s what I’m calling him.
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I don't think Mulvaney comes anywhere close to passing, but when I look at that picture in particular, the face doesn't stand out to me as particularly masculine. Perhaps it's because it's an exaggerated facial expression that distorts the shape quite a bit, but if I didn't know who I was looking at, I could be convinced it's an older cis woman (though my 1st guess would be trans woman).
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