Trans folks are losing their minds over a recent ad for Ulta.
You wanna know why?
Because they dare to have a transwoman in the ad, take a look.
>> Now, I know I can find love.
I know I can still be a performer.
I know that I can have a family, I wanna be a mom one day and I absolutely can.
And that's why the narrative still has a long way to go.
Because when I was grieving boy Dylan,
I didn't know those things were even accessible to me.
>> So that's an inspirational story to hear there.
A person who now feels accepted and loved and has hope for the future, and
that can't be allowed.
We need to stamp that down and people online are trying to and
they believe some of them that they have come up with a rhetorical
flourish that is going to end the whole transgender thing.
This one individual says, blackface is racist.
White people performing racist stereotypes of black or
native peoples does nothing to challenge racism, it elevates it.
Woman face is sexist.
Men performing sexist stereotypes of women from any culture does nothing to challenge
sexism, it elevates it.
Do you see the clever thing that this genius,
this Einstein walking amongst us has come up with?
You take trans people who exist in the millions and
have in every culture in every time period, so long as there have been humans,
you come up with the term woman face and then you're done.
That's it, we're not gonna have any more of this whole trans thing.
I think that they've really wrapped it up here.
There's the normal sort of transphobia just attacking the individuals in the ad
or attacking Ulta for doing it.
But coining the concept of woman face, Michael,
I think is a particularly stupid way to approach this.
>> I do, too.
As a matter of fact, I don't even want to say it or talk about it anymore,
so that it doesn't become coined.
But yeah, I mean, this is what they do, right, is that they will reduce something
to something that they can talk about, so that it becomes something and
then people glom onto that and then it brings more fear and more division.
And it's a horrible, horrible thing that America has found itself.
>> Yeah, and if you are watching this and if you're a regular transphobe,
I just wanna reassure you and you won't accept this, because it's inconvenient and
your entire ideology is based on avoiding even one ounce of cognitive strain.
Not a single rich person in America loses a moment of sleep over a transwoman
appearing in Ulta ad, they don't and
they're politicians that they bought don't either.
But they know that you do, they're playing you.
That's what they're doing.
They're making millions while you're freaking out about the fact that someone
put lipstick on.
Anyway, Ulta has put out a statement in response to the criticism saying,
the premise of the beauty of series is to feature conversations that widen the lens
surrounding traditional beauty standards.
We believe beauty is for everyone.
And while we recognize some conversations we host will challenge perspectives and
opinions, we believe constructive dialogue is one way one important way to move
beauty forward.
The intersectionality of gender identity is nuanced, something David and
Dylan acknowledge themselves within the episode.
Regardless of how someone identifies, they deserve our respect.
That is the bare minimum of how a society should work.
That's it,
I'm glad that they're not immediately running from this sucks though, that it's
all that it takes for some people to completely lose their grip on reality.
>> Right or not responding to it which a lot of people would neither,
a lot of companies wouldn't.
They responded to it and pushed back on it, which is okay.
>> Exactly, yes, yeah, no, that that's what you want to see.
I mean, I know Disney got a lot of credit recently for standing up against some
of the racist attacks that came at some of their actors recently.
They do have to be proactive.
They have to actually, care about and work towards diversity and equity and
all of that, but then they also need to defend these
people that they're putting up there and then taking the shots.
So anyway, it's [INAUDIBLE].
>> Just move the needle in the right direction away from apology and
into embracing and pushing.
>> Exactly.
>> That's good.
>> Exactly.
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