![]() Now, you could argue that she should “just step away,” as I’ve heard it put, but again, she’s connected to arguably the most famous family in America. No one as famous as Caitlyn Jenner has transitioned publicly since Christine Jorgensen over 60 years ago. Even if she didn’t star in a TV show and receive awards, she’s been a celebrity since before most of her critics were born, and with her step-kids being huge celebrities, she was going to get dragged kicking and screaming into the public eye if she wanted to or not. Was it on one of those midterm elections most people never participate in? The reason why she is the “face of the trans community” is because the media made her. No one elected her, unless there was a vote I missed. So many people complain, “She doesn’t speak for me!” “She doesn’t represent me!” Well, no, duh. I could hop on the Hate Cait Train, but let’s talk about the trans community for a moment. Caitlyn Jenner is, but so are you, so am I, so is everyone. Still, to say that looking like a man in a dress makes people uncomfortable is problematic. She says that while she has learned a lot, she still has a lot to learn, and she wants to present more than her own story. Though, if most people had bothered to read the interview in its entirety, because context is sexy, she talks about how, yes, she is a privileged rich white woman. So the first thing I can do is try to present myself well. ![]() If you’re out there and, to be honest with you, if you look like a man in a dress, it makes people uncomfortable. So what I call my presentation, I try to take that seriously. I think it’s much easier for a trans woman or a trans man who authentically kind of looks and plays the role. “One thing that has always been important for me, and it may seem very self-absorbed or whatever, is first of all your presentation of who you are. Caitlyn, in one part of her interview with Time, said: Well, let’s be fair, it wasn’t a tsunami wiping out Indonesia or famine in Africa, but people certainly were treating it similarly. On my Facebook timeline, where I was busy deleting the same reposted cat video from BuzzFeed again, I saw the latest Caitlyn Jenner catastrophe. Caitlyn Jenner Is Problematic, But So Are All of Us ![]()
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