Glamour Magazine just dropped its 2025 “Women of the Year” issue — and there’s something missing. Women.
Instead, the magazine’s cover celebrates a group called “The Dolls,” nine transgender and non-binary individuals who now represent “womanhood” for one of Britain’s most established women’s publications. It’s a striking symbol of how far modern feminism has drifted: from fighting for women’s rights to celebrating men who claim to be women.
This isn’t progress. It’s the new misogyny — polished, progressive, and proudly self-congratulatory.
The Disappearing Woman
Once upon a time, magazines like Glamour told women they needed to be thinner, prettier, sexier. Today, they tell women something even more degrading: that men can be better women than they are.
As J.K. Rowling put it 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.”
That’s the dark irony of our current cultural moment. In trying so hard to appear inclusive, the modern feminist establishment has excluded women themselves.
The Glamour of Erasure
Glamour’s new cover stars — “The Dolls” — are being praised as “trailblazers” for trans rights. Fine. But why in a Women of the Year issue?
When the honor meant something, it celebrated women who faced the world’s bias as women: the glass ceilings, the wage gaps, the relentless expectations of motherhood, body image, and survival.
Now, we’ve replaced all that with men in wigs and makeup, applauded for their courage in “redefining womanhood.” It’s not redefining — it’s replacing.
The message is unmistakable: womanhood isn’t about biology, experience, or shared struggle anymore — it’s a costume. An aesthetic. A feeling.
And if that’s true, then women no longer exist as a political or social class. They’re just an optional identity tag anyone can claim.
The New Misogyny
This isn’t just a pop culture blip — it’s part of a broader cultural pattern where women’s spaces and achievements are being rebranded to include men:
- Women’s awards go to men who identify as women.
- Women’s sports are forced to accept male competitors.
- Women’s prisons and shelters are being opened to biological males.
This is not inclusivity — it’s colonization. And it’s happening with the full blessing of institutions that once claimed to stand for women.
Modern misogyny no longer looks like catcalls and pay gaps. It looks like progressive media smiling and telling women: “Don’t worry, men will take it from here.”
Why Feminism Lost the Plot
The feminist movement, which once fought to make “woman” mean something powerful, now insists that “woman” means nothing at all.
Feminism used to protect women’s spaces and language. Today, it polices women who dare to say that biology matters. Ask J.K. Rowling — she’s been called every name imaginable simply for defending the dictionary definition of “woman.”
The paradox is complete: the movement that fought for women’s visibility has made it impossible to define who women even are.
A Call to Remember What “Woman” Means
Let’s be clear: compassion for trans people is not the issue. No one is denying anyone’s right to live as they choose.
But representation cannot become erasure.
Honoring trans women as trans women is one thing.
Replacing biological women in every symbolic and literal space is another.
If magazines like Glamour truly cared about women, they would celebrate actual women — the single mothers, nurses, entrepreneurs, and quiet fighters who hold society together.
Instead, they chose to stage a performance. And they called it womanhood.
Final Thoughts
When a women’s magazine features men as the ultimate women, it’s not a triumph of inclusion — it’s a confession of confusion.
It tells every girl flipping through those glossy pages:
“Your body, your struggles, your history — they’re not special anymore. Anyone can be you.”
That’s not feminism.
That’s not equality.
That’s when men are better than women at being women — and it’s the saddest victory patriarchy ever won.