From "Dylan Mulvaney Dreams of Privacy. Really. Her bubbly video diaries about her gender transition were once a study in oversharing. Now on the other side of a nationwide boycott, she sees the value in keeping some things to herself" (NYT).
What are you doing, just for you? Is it manly/womanly... and how would you know? Is it yummy? Is it bubbly? When you're in there, in your interiority, can it be bubbly?
I'm told: "Writers, especially novelists and literary critics, use it a lot when dissecting characters or narratives—think folks analyzing Dostoevsky or Woolf for their deep dives into the human psyche."
And maybe also NYT writers helping very lightweight pop culture figures promote their memoirs.
"Interiority" is showily contemplative. "Everyday people don’t typically say 'interiority' unless they’re parroting something they read or heard in a niche context."
I wondered if — in the 21 years of this blog — I'd ever used it. Quick search. I see it appears 5 times, but each time, I'm quoting someone else:
3. " At first, I was drawn to specific guests, hoping to learn more about the interiority of David Beckham (the Stone Roses, Elton John, Sidney Bechet)...."
4. "[T]he fact that the mystery was medical only amplified the usual effect: To wonder what was wrong with the First Lady’s health is to think about her internal body, her interiority."
5. "The woman is a concrete universal; she is a world, not an externalized world, but under the world, the warm interiority of the world, a compressed internalized world."
Click the number to get to the old post and see who wrote it.
Generalizing from those 5 examples, collected by me over the years, I'd say "interiority" is a feminism word. You see that in ##1, 4, and 5. #5 might be unfeminist, but it's still on the landscape of feminism.
Example #2 shows that the word can be used seriously and appropriately by a non-niche writer.
Example #3 is humor. To say "the interiority of David Beckham" is like saying "the depths of the shallows." Maybe I should give the NYT writer credit for humor. The word sets up that quote — "Little yummy womanly moments just for me" — and contains the judgment that Mulvaney's memoir does not find dimensionality in the interiority.
And I'm not talking about a vagina!
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rhhardin came close to using it a couple of days ago when he referenced men's use of "interior dialogue" to alleviate boredom.
I might have remembered that wrong. I am getting old.
hardin be playin’ sneakin’ Sally thru the alley wit Mulvaney yo…
From the post:
"I wondered if — in the 21 years of this blog — I'd ever used it. Quick search. I see it appears 5 times, but each time, I'm quoting someone else:..."
At least you don't have an interiority complex.
Dylan’s “Complete Unknown”?
If only.
"And I'm not talking about a vagina!"
That's the -- repugnance? confusion? rejection? -- inherent in this story.
If you're going to tell me about your yummy moments (although, please don't), what organ are you referencing?
Definitely a plus for Mulvaney for NOT using "interiority".
The "privacy" thing makes me think that Mulvaney is now offering NOT to disclose his use of their products for a very reasonable fee. What would John Deere pay NOT to have Mulvaney pose on one of their lawn tractors?
I think what hardin was talking about was the boredom we feel when women start shelaborating on some inane subject and we feel compelled to pretend that we are listening.
I'm not talking
that's what I got to say
if I said things were splendid
Althouse might be offended
if I said things were awful
it may just be unlawful
and that's one thing I can do without
Hey Big Mama,
You'd better not be talkin about the
inferiority of my
interioriority.
Society is friendlier to women, and maybe even transwomen than to effeminate little boys who like to prance around in dresses and giggle. Thus, Dylan Mulvaney.
"Dylan Mulcaney Dreams of Privacy."
Huh?
Except HE now has the time and lack of hermitacy to whine to the NYT?
Social Media Clowns love their 100k followers and clicks of fame. Until they don't. Gender grifters and leftists media tools, after being called out for their overhyped buffoonery, love their "privacy."
Until they don't.
He misspelled 'inferiority'.
Foucault and Gaston Bachelard said a lot about interiority. So did Derrida (or at least people talking about Derrida). It's one of those ideas whose development you can trace over time, even if you don't know what it actually means.
The NYT pretends that a “he” is a “she.” How very 2024.
Dylan Mulcaney?
NBC's mistake was giving John Mulaney a TV series, when Dylan Mulvaney would have been so much more entertaining.
Keeping things to oneself for the benefit of other people is nice too.
I’m trying this new thing where I keep certain things to myself,' Ms. Mulvaney writes. 'Little yummy womanly moments just for me.
She's talking about a six-pack of Bud Light in a brown paper bag.
Years ago in a undergrad lecture about some Hellenic subject or another the prof said that some polities had an actual public office of "village drunkard" whose sole purpose was to be a good example of a bad way to live for the children. They were pitiable and not at all to be examples of iconoclastic coolness. That's the role I see for the Dylan Mulvaneys and their ilk. That's their and his only positive contribution to society. Sadly the NYT, Hollywood, & pop-culture influencers et al hold these reprobates as good examples and which is why it's hard not to see promotion of these people as being anything but cultural self-sabotage. FWIW.
AI can finally bring Dylan Mulvaney and Audrey Hepburn together. That movie might actually be worth seeing.
@Aggie: Feminism trying to replace the inferiority complex with the interiority complex. As Freud discovered, no one ever went broke catering to the neuroticism of upper middle class women.
Interiority decorator. Maybe applies to NYT editors.
Is it ok to say that I have no wish to mull over a tranny fondling himself?
- Krumhorn
To paraphrase an old insurance commercial: "She's a guy...."
Funny how he and Megan Markle claim they always want privacy, but jump in front of every camera they can find, and if they can't find one, they hire them, themselves.
"Privacy once lost is not easily regained." Modern take: Put yourself out there you'll find it very hard to come back. I'll just add he's not some young pop star who writes a song that rockets him to stardom, a la Taylor Swift. An "influencer" and living online is fame-whore choice. He chose fame when it was an uncertain attainment. Having succeeded, he has regrets (according to the headline. I didn't spend a second reading the rest).
But hey, few people can say "I took down the number one brand in its category."
He.
Mr.
I think Alissa Heiderscheid is far more responsible for the collapse of Bud Light than Dylan Mulvaney.
They could've chosen anyone for this promotion; Mulvaney happened to be the one chosen. It was the Heiderscheid decision to do this promotion and her her video explaining it that was behind this tempest.
BTW, I was edified to learn Heiderscheid is now working for LIV golf.
Hilarious that Mulvaney chooses to protect her "interiority" via an interview with the NYTimes.
The deranged dude who forever tarnished one of the largest light beer brands writes a memoir that no sane person wants to read.
"Showily contemplative." I like that. Reminds me of Jesus' parable about the Pharisee who went to the Temple, and standing before the altar told God what an upstanding man he was. In contrast was the tax collector who threw himself down on his knees and cried, " Lord, have mercy on me, a sinner!" Who left with God's blessing?
There could be a quiz on certain words and the prompt for each one is, "Would Ms. Althouse ever use this word". I think I would do very well in that quiz.
I feel like this is an Andy Kaufman performance, deeply and fully committing to a role 24/7.
Saccharine to sugar is like a trans woman to an actual biological woman.
I'm all for reinventing oneself. If Mulvaney now wants to live a private life out of the spotlight, I think a first step would be not writing about wanting to live a private life. Just life the private life. Don't advertise.
The enduring mystery to me is how Bud Light, the swill of beers, ever became a leading brand. Glad that Mulvaney popped that bubble.
Male sex and feminine simgender. You've come a long way, fetus.
I had to think for a while to recall who this was. And then I remembered, and then I read the post, went, "Well, anyway..." and now I'm done with it.
I had to look up the name Dylan Mulvaney. The name sounded familiar but a face didn’t spring readily to mind. what does that say about my interiority.
Now that This Blog is old enough to drink, perhaps it should be up to The Blog whether to use interiority.
Is he Transhomo, Transbi, Transsim, or Transsocial in drag?
Now that This Blog is old enough to drink,
LOL!
MadMan, what's the POINT of living a private life if one is not publicly admired for doing so? Mulvaney wants to be the next Salinger or Garbo.
Exploring the interiority of women is not a bad thing. If I understand what we are talking about.
When your sex or gender (i.e. sex-correlated attributes) is inadequate then it's an inferiority complex. Didn't GenXYZ feminists tell girls to be the best boy they can be? And vice versa.
Contemplation shouldn't be on the interiority, but rather a more liminal area so that actions taken are not performative but rather with purpose sufficient to garner the attention of men in shorts.
Me me me me me me me me.....
Does "she" still have a penis?
Those uses of "interiority" make me wonder if the French form ("intériorité") is less obscure, and that translations of writers such as Beauvoir and Deleuze (as above) brought the English word out of desuetude. Then probably first adopted by writers and speakers to give their prose an intentionally continental philosophical/intellectual flavor.
I’m trying this new thing where I keep certain things to myself,' Ms. Mulvaney writes. 'Little yummy womanly moments just for me."
If he was a woman, he'd mean a box of chocolates at his side while he watched a Hallmark Christmas movie - a box skillfully concealed from husband and children while dispatching them to sleepovers and hockey games.
But he probably means gazing admiringly at himself dressed for a party with that new lipstick on ... himself.
I’m hard pressed to understand what “Little yummy womanly moments” are. If I heard the term “womanly moments” it would make me think of moments that pertain to my womanly parts - moments which I generally wouldn’t consider terribly yummy. But femme boy Dylan doesn’t experience those, does s/he?
Dylan's "yummy womanly moments" included destroying the Bud Light brand. Takes a lot of "womyn" to do that.
One suspects the interiority of Dylan Mulvaney is like the garage of a long-time hoarder.
"Dylan's "yummy womanly moments" included destroying the Bud Light brand."
Re: "Destroying the Bud Light brand", Ms. Heinerschnozz could not be reached for comment.
Our Weimar cultural moment now seems like a spaceship that has crashed on a hostile planet, its passengers now crawling from the wreckage desperately clutching their carry on luggage, hoping against hope for a return flight.
Think of all the pending book contracts, screenplays and teleplays that now have to be cancelled or rewritten.
Lazarus: let's not forget that as a young woman, Audrey Hepburn risked her life delivering messages to downed Allies and raising money for resistance fighters against the Nazis in occupied Netherlands. Her uncle, a father figure, was arrested and murdered by Nazis, and one brother was sent to a slave labor camp. She nearly starved to death. She's a war hero and a mother of two who conducted a very dignified and private adult life despite being a movie star, left Hollywood early and dedicated her relatively short life to UNICEF, quietly living in poverty in Africa.
Letting a self-pedophilic, woman-hating male play her in a biopic is a good way to finally put to rest that irritating phrase about shouting "fire" in a crowded theater.
Dude needs to keep everything to himself. That would work best for all parties.
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