To get back to my comment,
Can we at least cut the Breitbart-style transphobic horseshit, at the very least? Because that’s what they did at Breitbart; had a good laugh that Bono was recognized for caring about women, and had a good laugh at another dum librul being declared a woman.
What are we to infer from this graphic, Rob?
http://i2.wp.com/media.boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/bono-shades.jpg?w=999
Hurr hurr, pink am are gurl color.
Anyway, I guess my original comment is on how the cherry-picked tweets make the same “mistake” which is that Bono was named Woman of the Year, and that it’s gross. Okay…except that that’s not what they did. As the author of the article pointed out, Christiane Amanpour, who was one of the women who chose Bono for the award apparently, explains why they chose him here.
Bono Just Became Glamour's First Man of the Year | Glamour
But here we are, doing our darnedest to be mad that a dude got recognized for trying to help some of the world’s most vulnerable women. Yes, I understand; this should be the default. The point is, it’s not. Seeing it from my side of the gender fence, even, no, hell no, it’s not. It probably won’t change any alt-reichers’ minds about the “Pussification of America” (notice how your genitals are a symbol of weakness to them, ladies? Isn’t that charming?) but maybe it’s something.
Contrast that with Gwen Stefani, who was recognized for, uh, as far as I can tell, being awesome.
I brought up transphobia, by the way,because that was the angle the Breitbart crowd took with making fun of it: hey, look, another dum librul dude declared a woman, oh my, clutch the pearls because men is men and women is women back in my day!
From what I gather, it’s supposed to be a message that, hey, in some ways things are getting harder for women, and it’s nice to have some allies in the other 3.5bn people.
But no, let’s get angry at some stupid magazine because Bono is not am women.
But at least this dude put Christiane Amanpour in her place, so we have that going for us, I guess.