Teen Magazines
The editor of Teen Vogue made an announcement in 2016 that the magazine would stop portraying heterosexual people as the norm. “For the past year or so, we’ve made a concerted effort to limit (and, eventually, banish) heteronormativity from all of our content,” the statement said. Adding, “we use gender neutral pronouns in almost all contexts. Our readers have appreciated the shift, and often help police our language.”457
This is the same magazine that published “A Guide to Anal Sex” for teens, writing that, “Anal sex, though often stigmatized, is a perfectly natural way to engage in sexual activity.”458 Seventeen magazine also decided to stop treating cis-gender and heterosexual people as the norm, and released a statement saying, “We want Seventeen to be a magazine where all girls feel represented and included, regardless of their sexual identities.”459
The announcement was accompanied by a video titled, “Trans Students Explain Why Pronouns Are Important,” featuring a bunch of trans kids complaining about people using “gender restrictive” pronouns like “he” and “she.”
Men Wearing Makeup
Makeup giant Maybelline hired a man to be the face of a mascara ad campaign in January 2017. They chose a male “beauty blogger” named Manny Gutierrez who has over 4 million Instagram followers that enjoy his selfies showing his bearded face adorned with lipstick and eye shadow. The decision was celebrated by the Leftist media with Glamour magazine praising the idea, saying “Now this is exactly how we should be ringing in 2017.”460
The previous year, Cover Girl hired their first male model, a YouTuber named James Charles who posts videos of himself doing makeup tutorials and painting himself up like a transvestite. Yes, they now have a male “Cover Girl.”461 Fellow makeup giant L’Oreal followed suit and hired a male YouTuber as a spokesmodel for their brand as well.462
Gender Neutral Driver’s Licenses
In 2014 a gender non-conforming teen in South Carolina sued the DMV after they refused to allow him to take his driver’s license photo wearing makeup, accusing them of discrimination.463 He won the case, setting the precedent for more craziness to come. The following year a man in Portland won the right to wear a “silly fox hat” in his driver’s license photo after he sued for “religious discrimination” claiming he is a member of the Seven Drums, a Native American religion whose adherents sometimes wear ceremonial animal totems, and claimed his was a fox.464
In 2017 California began to legally recognize a third gender option on driver’s licenses, which is strange because there is no “gender” listed on California driver’s licenses, instead it lists the person’s sex. “Non-binary” is now allowed and is listed as an “X” instead of M or F.465
Oregon also passed the same law, allowing residents to choose “X” for their sex.466 New York has similar legislation in the works, and may be law by the time you’re reading this.467 Washington D.C. began issuing gender neutral driver’s licenses in 2017 as well.468 Other states are expected to follow.
After the DMV in Vermont revealed they would be allowing people to choose a third option other than male or female in January of 2018, an editor of the Burlington Free Press tweeted out sarcastically, “Awesome! That makes us one stop closer to the apocalypse,” and was soon fired for “hate speech.”469
One response to his tweet read, “As a gender fluid person, I demand an apology, particularly for the children and adults in our beloved city who suffer under the oppressive hell of binary gender privilege.”470 Maybe that person was just trolling with a sarcastic response, mocking the social justice warriors, or maybe they were serious—again, it’s impossible to tell the difference anymore. There is no requirement for an evaluation by a doctor to get a driver’s license listing your sex as “neither.” All someone needs to do is check whatever box they feel like.
When this gender identity tornado was just getting started, a Canadian YouTuber named Lauren Southern—a beautiful blonde-haired blue-eyed woman in her early twenties—decided to see how easy it would be for her to be declared legally a man. At the time, in Canada if you got a doctor’s note saying you were a certain gender, then you could then get a driver’s license listing whatever it was.
Her “examination” consisted of simply telling the doctor what gender she wanted to be, and without looking at her genitals or giving her a DNA test, she was given a doctor’s note that simply read, “To whom it may concern (for application for ID card) this is to certify that the above should be identified as male.”471
She then took the doctor’s note to Canada’s equivalent of the DMV and got a new government ID card which identifies her as male. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau later changed the law so that nobody would even need a doctor’s note, and now anyone can have whatever they want listed on their driver’s license, including an “X”472
Ads with “Gender Stereotypes” Banned
In England, the Advertising Standards Authority (which is basically Britain’s equivalent of the Federal Trade Commission in America) banned advertisements which they feel portray or reinforce, “outdated and stereotypical views on gender roles in society.” The agency told the BBC, “While advertising is only one of many factors that contribute to unequal gender outcomes, tougher advertising standards can play an important role in tackling inequalities and improving outcomes for individuals, the economy and society as a whole.”473
This is the same organization that banned a “fat-shaming” billboard from a company called Protein World which was encouraging people to get “Beach Body Ready” for the summer.
The BBC reported, “Advertisements that show men failing at simple household tasks and women left to clean up are set to be banned by the UK advertising watchdog.”474 The move was made after idiots complained about various “sexist” advertisements, including one from the Gap which depicted a boy growing up to be an “academic” and a girl growing up to be a “social butterfly.”
Another advertisement cited as the cause for the new policy was one for baby formula that depicted a baby boy growing up to be an engineer and a baby girl growing up to be a ballerina, because that’s too “sexist” to be allowed on TV in the UK now.475
The United Nations has even launched a campaign called “Unstereotype” which has been backed by consumer product giants like Procter & Gamble, and Johnson & Johnson, along with Google, Facebook, Microsoft and other tech titans who all aim to use their advertising as propaganda in order to “fight stereotypes.”
“No country in the world has achieved gender equality, even though we have big initiatives and laws passed,” says the executive director of the UN Women organization, which is part of the campaign. “Changing laws didn’t do much to change cultural norms [and] advertising has skill in behavior change.”476
Microsoft’s vice president of advertising praised the plan, saying, “Advertising is a reflection of culture and sometimes can be ahead of the curve and help effect change. We are proud to be a founding member of this UN sponsored initiative to “unstereotype” through the power and breadth of our messaging. We are all in.”477