To set the breakfast table, let’s begin with this morning’s New York Times story headlined, “
In a First, Transgender Woman Wins Model of the Year.” I bet the folks who, back in the 1970’s, applauded the “battle of the sexes” failed to realize how in 2024, men would win the battle and beat the gals by
becoming better women. Don’t shoot the messenger.
I don’t know how seriously we should take the Annual British Fashion Awards, which three days ago awarded ‘Top Cultural Innovator’ to an American gentleman oddly named A$AP Rocky. (
Probably not his real name.) I never heard of A$AP since I’m not traveling in those erudite circles, so maybe he deserves it.
Anyway, and more to the point, trans influencer Alex Consani, 21, of Petaluma, California, is a biological man who also affects a strong ‘ghetto’ dialect, thereby credibly establishing his/her intersectional credentials. He, I mean she, or they, broke the glass floor this week, by beating out all the other ladies competing this year and claiming the Award’s top female model championship.
Consani began ‘her’ modeling career at age 12, becoming one of the youngest transgender models in history (at that time), after her mother came across an ad for Slay Model Management, an LA-based trans modeling agency. Alex started wearing feminine clothing at age four, chose the name ‘Alex’ at eight, and started taking hormone replacement therapy to block his puberty. It was
all Alex’s idea; her parents
swear they had nothing to do with it.
I’m not saying the Annual Fashion Awards are a hot woke mess of political virtue-signaling, but last year’s top model was biological female Bella Hadid from Los Angeles, though she now identifies as Palestinian/Dutch and is controversial for her inflammatory Middle Eastern opinions and her mental health advocacy, drawn from her own cuckoo brain problems. At the 2023 Awards, Bella wore a spray-on dress. I don’t mean it was skin-tight, I mean literally. They sprayed it on:
Thus, this year’s Awards’ bizarre choice of a male trans influencer for female model of the year strikes me more as a desperate and boring attempt to stay relevant and to collect some virtue-signaling headlines. So courageous! So innovative! So dumb.
Who cares. But it lines up the next story well, right from the ladies’ tee.
Men winning women's awards; Supreme Court transitions transgender arguments; Daniel Penny trial update; nearly all federal workers have vanished; Tucker Carlson returns to Moscow; and more.
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