... but I am.
In a First, Transgender Woman Wins Model of the Year
"For the first time in the three-decade history of the award, the honoree, Ms. Consani, was a transgender woman. She is a TikTok phenom with almost four million followers and a cavalcade of catwalk appearances (Chanel, Stella McCartney and, in another first, Victoria’s Secret in October) to her name since being signed to IMG Models in 2019."
So, I should be liberal and accepting, and it shouldn't bother me that a transgender woman is the Model of the Year -- in the normal category of female fashion models. Yes, there are male fashion models too. But it seems just strange to see a transgender woman win for modeling fashions that are intended primarily for non-transgender women.
Art can be unusual, and test both our perceptions and our boundaries. It can challenge us. So this haute couture breakthrough challenges us -- well, it challenges me, speaking for myself. I guess I will be old-fashioned and wish that the fashion models I admire and desire are natural women (for lack of a better term).
Oh, and not generated by AI, either. Even though the AI versions can be pretty astonishingly too-perfect pretty.
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