Thursday, December 17, 2015

Jenner keeping it real

The [transgender] fantasy doesn’t work without complete buy-in, and so Jenner’s nonconformist habits are the stuff of scandal: He remains a Republican. He is pretty mellow about pronouns. He thinks that it is important for a man in his situation to look like a woman rather than “a man in a dress” and sympathizes with people who are creeped out by stubble-faced stevedores in Manolo Blahniks. He’s pronounced himself conflicted on the question of homosexual marriage. On the matter of the social and legal status of men pretending to be women, he pronounced himself “pretty comfortable” with the situation here in the United States. (He resides in Malibu: “Pretty comfortable,” indeed.) Jenner’s relative conservatism and his Republican affiliation ought not be surprising — as my friend Rob Long says: “Of course Jenner’s a Republican. She’s a rich old white lady.”

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/428642/bruce-jenner-republican-nonconformist-breaks-progressives-gang-rules

3 comments:

Methadras said...

Michael Jackson was a transracist. I mean no where in the world could you go from being a young black man into a middle-aged white woman like you can in America. What a great country!!!

edutcher said...

He now says he's giving it up.

I'm guessing the bad-fitting bra did it.

If he only knew Troop.

deborah said...

Right on, Meth! Better life through science.

Ed, that's interesting. I knew he wasn't serious serious when he balked at the wee wee removal. NTTAWW a transgender woman wanting to keep her wee wee. I'd think it would be a feature, not a bug :)