#Days of Girlhood

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Anon said: "Days of Girlhood" by Dylan Mulvaney is loved by some, while others are deeply offended by it. I wonder what Tumblr users think 🤔 The video: https://youtu.be/77rRP_Sk3JI?si=LIbPMWCSAHmH2xNt

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I promise you the women calling out Dylan Mulvaney are not the ones using dumb terms like "girl math." Women being brainwashed and buying into misogynistic stereotypes about themselves does not make it okay for men to push it further onto us.

[nothing0fnothing]

Dylan Mulvaney could have literally gone back in time, shot every infant Beatle in the back of the head assassin style then came back to 2024 to release their music, and TERFs would find issues with it.

Y'all would be out here like "um Yesterday is romanticising the past. does she not understand that women didn't have rights in the past?"

"Why is Dylan stealing this real woman's experience? Can Elanor Rigby not speak for herself??"

"Can't Buy Me Love? Thanks for diminishing the experience of sex workers Dylan, some women need to sell love to survive."

Truly, that woman could have single handedly masterfully reproduced John Lennon's Imagine into a artistic, heartfelt hyperpop banger and after it went quadruple platinum, used the proceeds to start a charity that saves helpless little puppies from certain death and gives them a happy home forever, and these absolute cretins would find a way to say she stole something from cisgender women in the process.

[hobiebrownsluver]

gonna go deconstruct every radfem/terf argument i've seen against dylan mulvaney's new song "days of girlhood":

"she should have said MY days of girlhood !!" tbh i have a feeling dylan released the song expecting us to have some type of media literacy out here but ig not, also it is HER experience, not yours. also it is sung in first person. note, it is HER experience after transitioning, it has NOTHING to do with you. (if you don't relate that's fine, we don't relate to everything, just don't make it her problem), days of girlhood is also based off of her series's name btw, that is focused on her and her transition.

"she mentioned drugs!" those "drugs" are most likely Estrogen, testosterone blockers, and progesterones, common meds that trans women take.

"she'll never know what motherhood was like!" you're seriously saying that she isn't a woman bcs she'll never know the 'true' experience of motherhood? seriously?

"I don't like the song." that's fine! just don't be a transphobe abt it.

anyways this song gets better every time a transphobe gets mad, stay safe y'all :3

[kurtsascot]

dylan mulvaney and chris colfer full performance from dylan’s year 2 of girlhood celebration

[chainmail-butch]

I blocked over 700 r*dfem accounts this morning just by going through the Dylan Mulvaney tag. That should tell you what you need to know about all this mess.

Also I like the song and I think it's fun.

[piperstrangeart]

In other fun news, a trans woman released a song about her experiences of joy as a woman and everyone is jumping down her throat because it's not a song about the tragic life of being a woman. Like I'm not a woman, but maybe people are allowed to find joy in their experiences of womanhood. Maybe women are allowed to express other emotions other than misery and suffering.

PS the fucking Barbie soundtrack, which was a self-described movie for all women had plenty of songs that had the exact same vibe, Dylan's song is legit just her experiences of trans girl joy.

The more cis people who get angry about it makes me enjoy it even more unironically tbh.

[lord-of-chaotic-evil]

fuck these tiktok terfs "days of girlhood" is a banger so eat shit

[the-living-radfem-tribunal]

[sincerelyyellingback]

Hey, can we get #MakeDylanApologize to trend on twitter? I think that would be so funny

[dylanmulvaney]

Days of Girlhood Out Now!

Directed by: Kajal

Here’s to 2 whole years of being a girl 💕💗🌸💄🎀👛🏳️‍⚧️

[spiciestmarinara]

Ya’ll- ‘Days of Girlhood’ is good, actually.

I’ve seen a lot of takes where people start out with “I don’t like the song-“ or saying Dylan Mulvaney is allowed to make mid or bad music- that latter part I agree with.

But the thing is the song isn’t bad? It literally made me think of things that informed my personal definition of womanhood growing up. It reminds me of reading teen magazines while trying desperately to get a tan, it’s styling my hair and painting my nails by myself while listening to the pop music I grew up with, it’s watching Sex and the City too young and being like “one day I’ll have a well paying job and a suspicious amount of free time to shop and gossip with my friends”.

My point being is that it might be a very millennial song that finally doesn’t feel like it’s pandering to me, it’s reminding me of that idolized version of womanhood when I was still very young.

I think that a trans woman’s song after going through a type of “second puberty” reminding me so distinctly of my own puberty is really poetic and amazing.

If you don’t like it for being a light hearted pop song about just girly things, then it’s fine it’s totally not for you. If you don’t like it because it’s by a trans woman, I think you need to reevaluate your priorities and get well soon.

[welleducatedinfant]

DAYS OF GIRLHOOD IS CUTE AND FUN AND A MORE NUANCED TAKE ON GENDER THAN THE BARBIE MOVIE AND I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL

[tinkeronii]

I’ve seen a lot of discourse about Dylan mulvaneys song, cis women mad cause it’s “offensive” but will blast California girls and Kesha’s old songs and they’ll defend them saying something like “those are about partying not girlhood” or shit like that.

I’ll admit when I first heard the song, I was a bit taken aback, I thought the same thing, ‘how dare she reduce girlhood/womanhood to taking pills and retail therapy’. And I was convinced that I had an issue with it because of the lyrics, but I thought about it more and I had problem with it because it was a transwoman.

I grew up in a pretty conservative household, I held the same beliefs as my homophobic family members and I was hateful. I’ve grown a lot over the years and discovered I hated those things because they were things about myself that I hated.

I’m bi and non-binary and tbh I still have issues with that, I still wish I was straight and ok with being afab, I wish I was “normal”. But I am.

I still have so much internalized misogyny and transphobia in me and I didn’t realize it till I heard Dylan’s song. If it was anyone else singing I, and others, would’ve ate it up.

The songs not an anthem for girls/women. It’s a song for Dylan and HER days of girlhood, not mine, not yours, hers and others like her.

There is always room for growth. Even if you’ve grown A LOT there is still room for more. It’s okay to admit that you may still have some hate in your heart, I do and I’m working on it. I love Dylan, the songs not my fav, but I fully support her and her journey. And I support anyone who is still trying to grow and unlearn all the dumb shit you may have grown up with to better yourself and love your fellow humans.

[sunnywalnut]

Just listened to Dylan Mulvaney's "Days Of Girlhood" in full and I'm just flabbergasted.

This is what people are mad about?

Is this what people are crying is "misogynistic" and "bad music"?

Seriously?

I couldn't stop dancing the entire time lmao. The beat is literally the funkiest tune and if you'd just LISTEN it's not misogynistic at all. It's her expressing gratitude to the women and girls that have supported her throughout her transition. It's about all the things she can embrace now that she's her true self. It's about being a party girl and gosh, isn't it awesome she can be a party girl now??

It's her being amazed at how WONDERFUL it is being a woman.

It's her acknowledging the stereotypes that are put on her and other women and saying you can't use these to hurt me anymore.

It's her saying yeah. I shop when I'm sad sometimes. So what? It makes me happy!

It's her saying yes! I still have to go to the pharmacy like any other person, and I shouldn't be ashamed of it! It's normal! Don't gawk at me!

It's her saying yes! I had a one night stand and it was awkward, but that's just life, right?

It's her saying I'm having fun, fuckers!

It's her acknowledging that yeah, things aren't always fine and dandy, and that's why I got my GIRLS.

But y'all don't see that.

Y'all see a trans woman who's happy and you hate it.

You see a trans woman who's embracing a traditionally masculine spelling of her name and you despise it.

You see a trans woman sharing each step of the process and you're mad because you want to keep silencing us.

You see a trans woman who likes men and you get ANGRY because how DARE she have all these party girl experiences when she's trans. Because of course, ALL trans people have to be depressed all the time.

You see a trans woman who's an influencer and enjoys items. She enjoys buying things, and modeling, and makeup, and shoes, and pretty outfits and crazy eyeliner and spreading positivity and you're MAD because we're supposed to suffer.

Trans people are supposed to suffer.

That's what defines us to you.

And that's what you want to define Dylan.

And guess what?

You disgust me.

And all the people who are claiming that her song is "bad" "but it's not a crime" are JUST as bad as those who are claiming it's misogynistic. Her song isn't bad. It's just not your taste. Wash your mouth out with soap and deal with it but get her name OUT OF IT.

You can hate party songs. You can hate Poppy hit songs that people are supposed to dance to. You can hate the classics like Brittney Spears and Demi Lovato and Shakira and you can totally hate just the genre in general.

But what you CAN'T do is look all these people in the face who are being AWFUL to her and say "yeah I agree with you but for DIFFERENT REASONS"

Because all you're ever putting out there is the vibe that women aren't allowed to have fun, and trans women especially.

You can totally say it's not your taste! You can totally say that you don't like pop songs! That's FINE. Just don't fucking put down women in the process. Don't claim something is "bad" just because YOU don't like it.

Dylan has dealt with ENOUGH shit in the past few years.

And I can't fucking BELIEVE that people are STILL shitting on her just for existing.

Just once.

Listen to the lyrics.

Listen all the way through.

And SUPPORT people. Even if their style is not your personal taste.

Because it's REALLY not that hard to be a nice person.

And it's even LESS hard to see all the needless hate that somebody else is already getting and decide not to jump on the bandwagon.

Do better.

Support trans artists.

And don't be a douchebag.

[piperstrangeart]

The other thing that gets me about Dylan Mulvaneys song is that if you listen to the lyrics of the ENTIRE song (not just that bit that went viral) it's very clearly a song about women supporting women and thanking the women who helped her during transition, and it's really fucking sad that the response from most cis women I've seen has been to *retract any support they gave her*.

She says at the beginning of the song "calling all women, girls like me gotta learn the basics", she's saying "hey this is what I wanna look and be like, can I get help from my fellow girls" and apparently that's the worst most evil thing anyone has ever done.