Much has been made of all the transgender mess that is currently bulging in America, and of marijuana and whether it should be legal. I am here to make more of it.
Tara Davis-Woodhall, who ran track for the University of Georgia Bulldogs, tested positive for pot and had to give up her NCAA track title. In the world we now live in, had she tested positive for male genitalia she would still have her title today.
Tara made her name as a long jumper, not to be confused with Bill Clinton, who made his name as a broad jumper.
Smoking marijuana used to be a total crime. Folks, some of whom Kamala put in prison as California AG, are rotting in prison for selling weed, all the while she admitted on a radio show that she used to smoke dope.
Brittney Griner is the WNBA player who was famously locked up in Putin’s Russia for having marijuana on her. Instead of blaming socialist Russia and praising America, the press pointed to the pay inequality between women and men in professional basketball. WNBA stars just do not make enough money to afford cocaine like the men. Biden is having Hunter look into it.
Griner just saw how laws layered upon laws left to the discretion of a nefariously too powerful government got her in jail in Russia. She now says it should “be a crime” to keep transgendered men from playing women’s sports. You have to start thinking that Heinz 57’s advertisements were well ahead of their time. I hear there are about 57 varieties of genders now, which makes at least one advertising firm way ahead of its time.
In the advertising rim, the Bud Light debacle surrounding trans-gender activist Dylan Mulvaney lumbers on. He/She was offered to have her/his name on Bud Light. At first they offered to put her on the bottle, but she/he said he/she preferred it in the can.
Either way, this taught Madison Avenue and “woke” corporate shills that there is a limit to the in-your-face advertising that average folks will take. It is always good to see the consumer win. Bud Light sales are down 25% and they lost billions in market cap value. That is Fox News’ stock after firing Tucker Carlson levels of stock loss.
You really cannot work your way into the average Americans’ life by shoving things in their face for your own gratification, like that tone-deaf, Ivy League- educated, “woke” woman and former VP of Marketing at Bud Light did. This is not mainstream. I do not see a George Strait country music song anytime soon entitled “All My Exes Alter their Sexes.”
Dylan Mulvaney has either skyrocketed or become a joke, depending on your point of view. Nike, long a way-to-woke Oregon company, hired Dylan to sell their sports bras. To date, the results have been flat.
The best way to use Dylan in a constructive way would be to put his/her image on Bud Light cans accompanied by the warning: “If you drink too much Bud Light after a night on Bourbon Street, the Surgeon General suggests you might need to get yourself checked at the free clinic if you wake up next to a him/her with a penis wearing a Super Bowl ring.”
Look, I was a big fan of Lou Reed and his song “Walk on The Wild Side,” which lyrically sums up the trans experience. We are all God’s creatures, and no one should target anyone for His work. The hard right really needs to lighten up on some of this, and the left needs to stop shoving it in people’s faces and making them victims, when they really are not.
We have already tried the gender mishmash with sports. Remember when the XFL and the NFL first started using women refs? It was confusing. They kept throwing flags for things the men did months ago.
All this woke Bud Light stuff and in-your-face, virtue signaling advertising needs to chill. First, they came for Uncle Ben (a credit to his rice) and I said nothing. Then they came for Aunt Jemima and I said nothing. Then they came for Dylan Mulvaney, and I said, “Whatever.”
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