Corrections
Well let’s face it, wims, your bodies just are ugly. We know it, you know it, the whole world knows it. We try to be polite about it but when we want to show off our fabulous new swimsuits it would be stupid to get lumpy bulgy clumsy women to do it. It takes a man to model a women’s swimsuit.
Adidas has come under fire for advertising a female-style swimming costume using a model with a penis.
That’s the small polite kind of bulge. Not like those sloppy bobbly breast things, let alone those giant buttocks.
See how beautiful???? Who would dream of replacing that with a woman?
The move has prompted criticism from campaigners for women’s equality in sport, who argue that the use of a biologically male model for a women’s swimsuit creates unrealistic body expectations for women.
Oh come on. Wah wah wah. Can’t you girls grow up for a change? It’s not unrealistic to expect a woman to look like the guy with the flat chest and bulgy groin: all you whiners have to do is lay off the cheesecake for a few days.
Adidas is not the first global brand to be criticised for using biologically male trans models in advertising campaigns.
Budweiser recently faced a backlash for using trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney on its cans of Bud Light.
And when Mulvaney featured in a Nike bra advert, this also prompted calls from consumers for a boycott of the Nike brand.
Sigh. How many times do we have to go over this? Men just do everything better, okay? We know it, you know it, everybody knows it, so just stop whining and go watch a real housewives of somewhere show.
You’ve got it all wrong. Again.
This isn’t about a man in a swimsuit, it is a brave person of colour breaking down racist stereotypes. Can’t you see the skin colour, the cornrow hairdo, and that amazing underarm hair?
It’s all about smashing the white patriarchy and elevating POC. That he is a man is irrelevant (Unless you’re a woman wanting a swimsuit that fits!)
Although, thinking about it again, maybe this is a good cross-selling move from Adidas. Now women will not only buy a swimsuit but will also have to buy Addidas socks to fill that rather un-gainly-looking pouch.
So he’s like the un-Karen. I take your point.
Maybe women in jock straps is next?
Even for a bloke that bulge wouldn’t be that discreet. That Adidas under fire link goes to their dispute with BLM over a trademark BTW.
Adidas already sells Green Bay Packers logo gear. Perhaps they could sell Packers packers.
Sacbut, not “Mercan, but you still made me laugh!
Seriously? It’s about setting unrealistic body expectations in young women? Damn. And I thought it was about erasing women, men taking women’s roles, men mocking women, men pretending to be women, and do it better than women.
I don’t know many (make that any) women that would see that as a body goal. Twiggy, maybe. Marilyn Monroe, maybe. That guy? Nope. Of course, the women I know can tell the difference between a man and a woman.
White actor taking the role of a black character – theft, usurpation, replacement, erasure of black people; an insulting continuation of the old tradition of blackface.
Male model taking the place of a female model – bold, stunning, brave, fresh, progressive, laudatory.
@Mike B
Don’t joke. I just saw a video on Twitter where a woman was explaining that TIFs are getting labial piercings to simulate the weight of testicles. Apparently the sensation of weight makes them feel more masculine. (It also makes them manspread apparently.) Which is odd because I’ve had testicles all my life and I’m never experienced a “sensation of weight”.
Francis Boyle – in other words, TiFs have no more idea what it feels like to be a man than TiMs have of what it feels like to be a woman?
Francis, almost TMI, but yes, I agree. Maybe we’re just not doing manhood as well as a trans person can?
Holms, yes the double standards are strong with this crowd. Can’t have a ‘cis’ actor playing the role of a trans person, but it’s perfectly fine for a TIM to play the role of a straight woman.
@Rob
Yes ,I thought perhaps after posting but this is the sort of thing we are dealing with so we really need to be able to name it – fetishist behaviour.
@iknklast
Exactly.