I have said it many times; I am a very liberal thinking person, and have nothing against men dressing as women, or women dressing as men. Here in Brighton such things are a part of everyday life.
I'm not familiar with the magazine 'Glamour UK', but I imagine it's a fashion mag' similar to many others. This front cover popped-up on my news-feed, and celebrated their 'Women of the Year'.
The only thing they failed to mention on the cover, was that none of the 'Dolls' is a woman.
It might seem a trivial thing to many, but I'm not sure what message this gives to genuine 'biological women', who have recently seen their gender being debased at the toss of a coin.
Teenage girls and young women are much more aware of their gender and attractiveness than their male counterparts. They are body conscious in a way that males aren't. To be female is actually 'important', whereas to be male is just 'blokey'.
So why would a fashion magazine, who's readership I imagine is 99% female, put a bunch of cross-dressers on their front page cover, and refer to them as 'Women of the Year'? It doesn't make sense, and at worst it is insulting.
Gender has been under attack from the dungaree-wearing, do-gooder, snowflake, wokey-folk for some while. They really don't like the idea of distinct genders. In fact I imagine that 'Chromosomes' are viewed as the enemy.
I now see that the all female Newnham College in Cambridge has fallen prey to the wokey-folk, and are allowing cross-dressers to enter their once sacred single-gender halls. At the same time I hear that nurses at a Darlington hospital have won their case about having to share 'changing facilities' with a cross-dresser. Just occasionally the cause fails, then in return it occasionally advances.
I don't wish to enter the ins and outs of very rare hermaphroditic genders, but why can't we return to the days when cross-dressers didn't claim to have genuinely changed sex (which is impossible anyway). They just enjoyed their preferences, wore women's clothes, and we all accepted it.
I entered the hallowed halls of Newnham College to see my girlfriend thirty years ago, sometimes by climbing up a drainpipe and over a wall, then running across the lawn and through the back door. Staying past kicking-out time was another speciality, though I will admit using the loo was tricky. But I may not be what you had in mind...
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like 'Carry on at Cambridge'. I wonder what the female students think about the male newcomers?
DeleteDo many women actually read that magazine? I had never heard of it before today, but then glamour is not something I generally associate with.
ReplyDeleteI have no idea, this was the first I'd heard of it. If it has front covers like that again, I can't imagine it'll have a great readership.
DeleteThe Darlington nurses were brave, united and right. I admire their tenacity and the fact that they had no personal issue with the transgender hospital worker who chooses to be known as Rose Henderson.
ReplyDeleteQuite right. They (like me) have nothing against cross-dressers, but they didn't like being stared at whilst changing.
DeleteWhat strange times we live in!
ReplyDeleteThe campaigners have taken their cause too far, and are now seeing a backlash.
DeleteCalling a trans person a “cross dresser”, in my opinion is similar to talking about “sexual preference” when talking about homosexuality.
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