| femaleness shaming |
[31. Okt 2025|21:10] |
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After the UK Supreme Court confirmed in April that women should be defined by femaleness (humanity) rather than femininity (artificiality), a counter-movement arose which centred on the idea of women as dolls. No one on the Glamour cover is female. This is the magazine ideal of “woman” boiled down to its purest essence: plastic breasts, pouty lips, long hair, low body fat. The issue here is not that a female person cannot also possess such features. It is that when it comes to deciding what is a necessary attribute of womanhood, glossy magazines — like porn, like gender identity ideology — dispense with femaleness before anything else.
In true industry style, Glamour hides cruelty in breathless prose that claims to speak for the marginalised. That Faye and others feel victimised by the very idea of female people having their own changing rooms, toilets, prisons, refuges and even words is not news. What’s especially disturbing here is the framing. Historically, women’s glossies have switched back and forth between “progressive” posturing and anti-feminist bullying in order to keep readers feeling bad. Here, the two things are completely merged.
As a female reader, you are not only supposed to feel insufficiently feminine. Should you have even the slightest sense that women are not femininity-defined dolls, you are also supposed to feel shame at your privilege and moral inferiority. In the past, these magazines used feminist cheerleading to mitigate the body-shaming. Now the body-shaming — at its purest level, femaleness-shaming — is what passes for feminism.
https://unherd.com/newsroom/glamour-magazines-trans-cover-shames-women/ |
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