![]() ![]() It didn’t start with her, it won’t end with her and I don’t expect her to add that fight to the ones she’s already fighting. Now: The fact that high fashion ascribes to a reductive and exclusionary idea of what makes a woman worth looking at is, in fact, a problem. But the corset and poses, at least, would seem to have less to do with Caitlyn Jenner’s “idea of a woman” than Vanity Fair ’s idea of a cover photo. The awfulness of this op-ed has been exhaustively parsed elsewhere. Jenner,” and call her a traitor to feminism due to “Caitlyn Jenner’s idea of a woman: a cleavage-boosting corset, sultry poses, thick mascara and the prospect of regular ‘girls’ nights’ of banter about hair and makeup.” Nominally spurred by Jenner’s offhand explanation that “my brain is much more female than it is male,” Burkett went on to routinely use incorrect male pronouns, insistently refer to Caitlyn as “Mr. (Though she’s not the first: Against Me! frontwoman Laura Jane Grace and Cher’s son Chaz Bono were also public figures when they came out, though their “public” was a lot less public than Jenner’s.) Because of this, her body and the details of her transition are perceived to be public property, and anyone with an axe to grind about transgender women in general has felt free to use her as the grindstone.Ĭonsider, for example, the stunningly cruel op-ed published in the New York Times by Elinor Burkett. But Jenner - Olympic gold medalist, “world’s greatest athlete,” Kardashian clan head, Kanye West mother-in-law - occupies a stunningly high level of media visibility, and is probably the most famous person ever to transition in the public eye. The outpouring of love for her has been both surprising and wonderful to see. The media has been refreshingly supportive of her transition most people use the correct pronoun, most people use her chosen name. When they are, their visibility can enhance that of other, less fortunate, less powerful people who share their identity.įirst things first: It cannot be easy to be Caitlyn Jenner right now. Famous genderqueer and transgender people aren’t Official Representatives, and they shouldn’t be asked to serve in that capacity the only thing they can be or should be is true to themselves. ![]()
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