Jenner-alizations
Tuesday, June 2, 2015, 7:55 p.m. CST Because I am so very tired already of hearing about Mr. Bruce Jenner becoming Ms. Caitlyn Jenner, I decided to do a Google search of “Caitlyn Jenner”, just to see how many results would come up. The answer? “About 19,800,000 results”. And the first result, next to a photo of the Vanity Fair cover of the transformed person in question, entitled “Call me Caitlyn”, was “Why are we really interested in Caitlyn Jenner?”, an article on CNN from the current day, by Peggy Drexler. The article says, in part: “... let's also be honest: Are we praising her for her courage to be her? Are we praising her bravery as a human – or as a celebrity? Or are we, well, sensationalizing?” “It is … an acknowledgment of a transition that is likely only marginally representative of those experienced by most in the transgender community. It's also a transition that has centered very heavily on her looks, making her story of transition nearly imposs...