Dylan Mulvaney is a transgender influencer most known for her TikTok series “Days of Girlhood.” She has reached many people and was named Woman of the Year in 2023. Mulvaney has done amazing things for women and transgender women of the world, but her recent song is out of character compared to what her usual content is.  

In the song “Days of Girlhood,” which was released March 11, Mulvaney sings  “Ring the alarm, immediately we’ve got a code pink emergency. Girls like me gotta learn the basics.” She goes on to sing about retail therapy, walks of shame and eventually having a “breakdown in the bath.” I am all for embracing the color pink and shopping and not being ashamed of what we do, but the song doesn’t feel encouraging. Her song promotes harmful stereotypes of women. This might not have been Mulvaney’s intent, but the song is completely tone deaf.

Mulvaney released a video responding to the negative comments she has gotten and essentially she said she didn’t mean harm by the lyrics, but that she didn’t see why women could still enjoy all of the things she talked about in her song. She wanted the song to come across like Rebecca Black’s song “Friday” or “Perfect Day” from the movie “Legally Blonde.” “I wanted it to be like the opening song of a 2000s movie,” Mulvaney said in a Tik Tok video. 

The song is insensitive, and Mulvaney completely missed the mark with the lyrics, but her intentions don’t seem bad. In the media we see lots of celebrities abandoning their platforms and going rogue to have a few moments in the public eye. Mulvaney is still posting and speaking out about women’s rights, so she hasn’t abandoned her platform. One thing to keep in mind is not everything we see online and in the media is true. Supporting a celebrity involves doing your own research of their actions and seeing if their actions actually reflect their words. Not everyone is bad, but it takes us not believing everything we hear to really support celebrities and influencers.