Fashion magazines once held up mirrors to society; now they’re holding up funhouse glass that distorts reality beyond recognition. For decades, these glossy pages shaped how women saw themselves; sometimes cruelly, often superficially, but always acknowledging one fundamental truth: their readers were female.

The transformation didn’t happen overnight. First came the shift from beauty tips to political manifestos, then came the lectures about privilege and oppression. The same magazines that once obsessed over lipstick shades now obsess over ideological purity. But even those changes pale compared to what’s happening now…

Look, I’ve seen a lot of nonsense in my time covering cultural insanity, but what happened this week at Glamour UK takes the cake. Something that would have been satire just a few years ago is now their editorial policy.

The publication named nine biological males as their “Women of the Year.” Yes, you read that correctly: Nine men, calling themselves “The Dolls” (that’s trans community slang, apparently), now represent the pinnacle of womanhood according to one of Britain’s most established women’s magazines.

They posed wearing matching t-shirts emblazoned with “Protect The Dolls”—a phrase that sounds more like a horror movie tagline than a celebration of femininity.

From ‘Glamour UK’:

As trans rights face increasing threat in the UK, Glamour honours nine of the community’s most groundbreaking voices at this year’s Women of the Year Awards. These trailblazers work tirelessly to empower, uplift and celebrate trans voices.

The magazine celebrated the nonad as “The Dolls,” a popular term transgender women use to refer to one another.

The Faces Behind the Farce

Among these “women of the year” is Munroe Bergdorf, who readers might remember was fired by L’Oreal after declaring “all white people are racist.” Get this—she actually called the Suffragettes “white supremacists” during the centenary celebration of women’s voting rights. And she’s Woman of the Year?

Apparently, insulting both the living and the dead members of your supposed sisterhood is no barrier to representing the best of womanhood.

The list includes models, DJs, and activists; all united by their biological maleness and their insistence that this fact is irrelevant. Remember when the biggest controversy in women’s magazines was airbrushing? Those were simpler times. Now the magazine that once taught teenage girls how to navigate puberty tells them that boys navigate it better.

JK Rowling, who’s become an unlikely voice of sanity in this madness, captured the absurdity perfectly:

I grew up in an era when mainstream women’s magazines told girls they needed to be thinner and prettier.

Now mainstream women’s magazines tell girls that men are better women than they are.

The Backlash Grows Louder

The response has been swift and brutal. Parents, feminists, and ordinary people who still believe in biological reality have flooded social media with their disgust. One critic noted the particular cruelty of the “Protect The Dolls” slogan, calling it “a creepy phrase which objectifies women and signifies flouting the law on female-only spaces.”

Who exactly is being protected here—and from what?

This isn’t happening in isolation, either. Glamour’s American edition recently honored actress Rachel Zegler and children’s YouTuber Ms. Rachel—both vocal critics of Israel—as their “Women of the Year.” The pattern is clear: these magazines no longer serve their readers; they serve an ideology that views actual women as obstacles to progress.

You know, what’s really concerning is that it’s not just the erasure of women from their own awards … it’s the gaslighting. We’re supposed to applaud this as progress, to see the colonization of women’s spaces as liberation.

But young girls looking for role models in these pages won’t find successful women who’ve overcome challenges—they’ll find men who’ve overcome biology, at least in the minds of fashion editors.

The disconnect between these editorial decisions and reality has never been starker. Call me old-fashioned, but while Glamour celebrates men as the best women, actual women are losing scholarships, sports titles, and safe spaces. The magazine industry wonders why subscriptions are plummeting while they systematically alienate their core audience.

Although, perhaps it’s actually the wake-up call we needed. When the absurdity reaches such heights that women’s magazines literally cannot distinguish women from men, maybe—just maybe—we’ve reached peak insanity.

The question now isn’t whether this ideology will collapse; it’s whether institutions like Glamour will survive the rubble when it does.

Key Takeaways

• Glamour UK named nine biological males as “Women of the Year”
• One honoree was fired for calling “all white people racist”
• JK Rowling leads growing backlash from across political spectrum

Sources: Breitbart, Mail Online, New York Post