by Martin Lichtmesz, The Unz Review:
I wanted to believe it so badly. But the story was too delicious, too outrageous to be true. We are talking about the recent conspiracy theory according to which Brigitte Macron, the wife of Emmanuel Macron, is in fact a man.
However far-fetched it may sound, it is currently doing the rounds in American and French media after being presented to a mass audience by black influencer Candace Owens (6.8 million followers on Xitter) in a six-part series on YouTube (part 1 has 3.8 million clicks to date).
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It has received further exposure through advertising by Tucker Carlson, arguably the most influential American conservative journalist at the moment. (Meanwhile, also Joe Rogan has taken the bait, so the whole thing will probably soon become “alternative mainstream”.)
Carlson described how sceptical he had initially been about this theory ardently promoted his clever and nice friend Candace. Despite all his love for her, he felt it was “flat earth” territory that he would rather not enter.
But now, lo and behold, he is amazed to admit: “And then it turns out – she’s right! My mind is blown!” His interview partner, a former Fox News colleague named Clayton Morris, invited to shed light on the infamous Israeli attack on an American ship in 1967, enthusiastically agreed:
The Candace Owens pieces on this are phenomenal. I’m giving Candace Owens full credit for really opening up this story from the French journalists who first broke it, and then were I think, like, ostracised and basically told not to report it.
I don’t know whether Carlson and Morris sat through the tedious, more than six hours during which Owens presented the matter and “asked questions” interrupted by announcements from her (now probably very happy) sponsors, or whether they, like your humble narrator, have actually read the English translation of the book Becoming Brigitte by the right-wing French “investigative journalist” Xavier Poussard, which is now being marketed under Owens’ brand (seemingly a poorly edited AI translation; for example, the personal pronouns constantly change, sometimes within a single sentence).
Even though I only listened to parts of the series on YouTube, I was hooked and ordered the book. It proved to be a captivating and rather illuminating read that kept me enthralled for a few days, but for entirely different reasons than those intended by Xavier Poussard.
What’s the story? I’ll sum it up for you, so you don’t have to go down that rabbit hole.
It all started with a lady named Natacha Rey, who is described by Xavier Poussard (a frequent guest on Alain Soral’s Égalité & Reconciliation, which regularly promotes his work) as an “ordinary, self-taught citizen”, i.e. not a journalist who has “investigated along the usual methodology”.
She was irritated by Brigitte Macron’s “unusual” physique, as she wrote on Facebook:
[T]he width of her neck, her shoulders, the length of her ribcage compared to her narrow, waistless lower body. Hence this unbalanced silhouette, her virile gait always with long strides, this way of sitting naturally with her legs apart.
The striking, somewhat harsh and masculine appearance of Brigitte Macron (born 1953) is one of the reasons why the transgender theory seems instantly plausible or at least conceivable to many people. Another is the unusual optics of the Macrons themselves.
Emmanuel Macron (born 1977) is a handsome, relatively young man who looks a bit like Alain Delon. Since 2007, Macron has been married to a woman who is almost 24 years older than he is and who, in terms of age, could be his mother.
Since the sexual attractiveness of men fades more slowly than that of women for biological (and socio-biological) reasons, this is a constellation much less common than the opposite-sex variant. The story is made even more unusual by the fact that the love affair had already begun when Emmanuel was still a teenager and Brigitte was his 40-year-old teacher.
