Resurfaced Magazine Cover Praising A Man As Highest Paid Female CEO Sparks Outrage

Megyn Kelly and former top Levi executive Jennifer Sey were just a few of the people who blasted a resurfaced magazine cover that praised a man as the highest paid female CEO.

In the recently reposted 2014 cover of the New Yorker magazine, the outlet wrote about trans-identifying male Martine Rothblatt as “The Highest Paid Female CEO In America.” The post noted that Rothblatt had been named to the Mayo Clinic’s Board of Directors in 2022.

The host of Sirius XM’s “The Megyn Kelly Show” podcast reposted the cover and slammed the fact that the magazine claimed Rothblatt was a woman. Her post has since gone viral with more than 4 million views at the time of publication.

“He is not female [and] he is not ‘the highest paid female CEO in America,’” Kelly wrote to her millions of followers. “He climbed none of the mountains we did. Overcame none of our challenges.”

He is not female & he is not “the highest paid female CEO in America.” He climbed none of the mountains we did, overcame none of our challenges. He started pretending to be one of us at AGE 40. He knows nothing about being a woman & will never be one no matter his costume. https://t.co/Cpz7ptuHVz

— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) September 26, 2024

“He started pretending to be one of us at AGE 40,” she added. “He knows nothing about being a woman [and] will never be one no matter his costume.”

Sey — who was ousted as brand president at Levi Strauss & Co. after more than 20 years with the company when she spoke out against COVID policy madness — also reacted to the New Yorker cover and broke down exactly why Rothblatt should not be celebrated as a woman who climbed some corporate ladder.

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“What is galling about this is this person didn’t start to ‘identify’ as a woman until he was in his 40s,” Sey wrote. “He experienced nothing of what actual women do in the work place as he rose the ranks.”

“He wasn’t pregnant, multiple times causing his bosses to wonder about his commitment to the job,” she added. “He didn’t have to come back from maternity leave after 6 weeks and have promotions delayed because he had babies; he didn’t have to come to work exhausted from having been up all night with a newborn.”

“He didn’t have to pump milk in a closet while trying to work,” Sey continued. “He wasn’t groped by gross sales guys at drunken sales meetings. He didn’t sit in jobs on average 18-24 months longer than male counterparts, delivering results but not getting promoted. He was the male counterpart getting promoted! No. Just no. This is not a triumph for women in the workplace. Give me an f***ing break.”

Kelly and Sey weren’t the only ones who blasted the move by the magazine.

“New glass ceiling hack: be a man, get to the top, wear a dress. The end,” one person wrote.

Another added, “Galling doesn’t begin to cover it. And it’s another hallmark of a failing (but not yet hopeless) society.”

While a third person wrote, “Let me say it loudly for the people in the back, men are not women. Got it?”

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